Dmitry and Maureen

Here comes a post that has nothing to do with real estate or metro Detroit or Oakland County. Some times we just have to do something just for fun, right? Today miOaklandCounty.com is about to pass a memorable milestone. Akismet, our spam comment blocking program is about to devour its 15,000 piece of comment spam. [...]

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Tomorrow is another of our fun and creative Birmingham-Bloomfield Realtor Network Last Tuesday Tours. I will be at 975 Fairfax between 10 and 1 and I would love to see your smiling faces. For those of you who missed my post about cooperation, the BBRN is a group of 10 top producing agents from competing [...]

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The schools are closed here in Birmingham today, so I’ve been doing fun things with my 3 year old like making bluish-green raspberry oatmeal for breakfast. She is in a colored food phase. The color theme continues, as I am tickled pink right now. See photo below for proof. Larry Cragun of Real Estate Undressed [...]

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I have been in and out of participating in the Carnival of Real Estate. Mostly out lately. But I figured it would be a good thing to get back into the swing of things since I am hosting it in March. So I zipped off an entry this week and as I laid sleepless on [...]

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Last Wednesday morning our office was treated to an early morning deluxe tour of the Palace of Auburn Hills, including a visit to the Detroit Pistons locker room and the opportunity to shoot some hoops down on the court. How fun! Dmitry used to be a very good basketball player, but his passion for real [...]

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I’ve discovered the next best thing since sliced bread. It’s called the internet. Last week I started to get some strange looking splotches on my forehead and scalp. I have always had very clear skin so I had no idea where this was coming from. I asked one of my Realtor buddies to take a [...]

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We usually spend our Sunday afternoons at open houses or with clients. Actually, I rarely hold open houses, so that should be corrected to Dmitry spends his Sunday afternoons at open houses. Today we took a day off, and our family spent the afternoon celebrating New Year (think Julian calendar) with the other families at [...]

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RISMedia picked our broker, Doug Hardy, to call when they were doing a piece on Sotheby’s new eGallery. Our office has actually had a big screen TV in the window for about 2 years, and it formerly ran pictures of our listings. Now its tuned in to show estates with palm trees, villas in Tuscany, [...]

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Almost everyone but me is done with their 2006 retrospectives. I will use the Julian calendar as my excuse. I celebrated Christmas on January 7th, and I’ve got until January 14th to greet the New Year by my accounts. I was also busy with the ActiveRain retrospective, so I didn’t get around to doing this [...]

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No, I am not confused.  My Blackberry has not misfired.  Today, January 7th, is Ukrainian Christmas and the day that Orthodox Christians celebrate.  At our home, this means that Santa is finally coming. A few weeks ago we took Katya out to do some Ukrainian Christmas caroling with the children from her Ukrainian school.  Katya [...]

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We had a little technical glitch in our Oakland County Homes website going on for the last 30 days or so. The feature that allowed the public to search for homes for sale was down, and we were frantically working with our host to get it restored. After all, home buyers like to look at [...]

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