My wife mentioned sending me to BA this week. Ya I am not addicted to the Internet. I could quite at any time. just one more fix. can you say wifi at the coffee shop in five.

Sounds like somebody had burnt toast for breakfast

Anon:  Of equal importance is grammar, so I do hope you have a day job.

Susan - Remind me never to cross you.  Ouch!

Why do you not have a photo? Are you the phantom?

We work nights and weekends, and time. Mostly nights and weekends.

I had a similar conversation with the Tomato.  I said that many of the constant bloggers have nothing else to do with their time - not enough real estate business.  The Tomato said that for many bloggers it was the equivalent of the watercooler in an office - used for socializing, not for work.  For others it can be very successful in finding customers.

I think it is addictive when their isn't enough business.  There is much knowledge to be gained and friends to be made, but its not a substitute for working real estate except if you are one of the few who actually obtain closing customers from blogging.  I have not got a sale yet from blogging.  When I concentrate on all the other ways I always used to prospect, the customers and sales have come.

It is too time consuming for me to just check into this blog for a short time when working on my website and chacking my webmail.  

Thats a new word - chacking.  It means checking and hacking at the same time.

I actually do it when I'm on hold with the title company or a mortgage broker. Then I leave again, I've even done while in the office of a local attorney. My computer is ALWAYS with me.

My business has never been better and I actually think that blogging gets my mind back on Real Estate when it starts to wonder to something else.

I know what you mean.  I read the reliberation blogs for months before I started putting in my two cents.  But as far as work hours, I don't have any, seems RE takes up morning, afternoon, evening, and most weekends.  If my brain won't shut off we can add nights.  So I have found myself heading in here for a break.  Sounds silly, reading about RE for a break from RE.  But I want all to know that the sharing of all this information, knowledge and like situations has been uplifting and inspiring.  So you will have to drag me to BA kicking and screaming!

As far as the spelling and grammar go, I still don't see the little spell check check-mark anywhere!  Course that doesn't mean anything as I haven't figured out how to put in my profile either!

Have a great evening (or is it night) everyone,

Jana

Since when are guest and anonymous comments allowed on RELib?

As for when to blog and when to "do real estate", sometimes it's difficult to separate the two. I get clients from http://www.PhoenixRealEstateGuy.com  In the last three days, I've talked to reporters from, and been quoted in, both the local paper and in BusinessWeek. That's not bad exposure for just writing some blog posts.

In a lot of ways, I consider blogging as prospecting. And that IS real estate work.

Now if you'll excuse me, it's time to go chacking.  :)

I agree with Jay, blogging is working on your real estate business, as to reliberation, it is a nice social place to come and meet friends during your work day for a few moments, I'll have a latte please.

Well I personally don't have any set hours I work.  I do work 6-7 days a week and from morning....till whenever.  I blog and comment at different times throughout the day depending on what I am doing.  Sometimes I take a break and check to see what is going on here.  Other times if I am in the middle of something and looking for more ideas, I come here to see if I can find anything new.  

I work on my website, blog and try to come up with new ideas for capturing buyers and however that ends up....is hard to say.  Just depends on what I end up getting myself into that day.  

And in between all of that I still show properties and go on listing presentations.  

As far as speeling and grammar go...no one is purfect!  Now, I need to get chacking too!

Where's my picture?

The only time I find blogging to be a waste of my time is when I get caught up reading blog posts like this one!

Like many others have said, I think its a very interesting way to hear my fellow professionals points of view from around the country and the world.  I can get clues on how other markets are doing, and don't have to rely on the view out of my office window for insight.

Long live the blogosphere!

Jay and Francy -

you ask: 'Since when are guest and anonymous comments allowed on RELib?'

It always has been.  When you log in under www.reliberation.com, here is the message you receive at the bottom of a blog:

"To post a comment you can sign in using a Point2 ID. Sign in.

Don't have a Point2 ID? Join Point2 NLS or post as a guest."

Don't forget P2 is trying to conquer the world.  All these blogs are available to the public.

Thanks Gail. I knew RELib could be viewed by the public, but I thought you had to be logged in as a Pro or Premium member to post or comment. Guess I should read the fine print more carefully. This is the first time I've seen an anonymous comment.

Funny how it's always the anonymous comments that are the snotty ones. I've had some real doozies posted on my blog. Never by anyone with enough guts to use their name -- they always cower behind that anonymous tag....

None of us work, we just chat all day and all night. We are all independently wealthy and don't need to work.  Nobody likes to work so we are fullfilling our realtor fantasies. I'm really a security guard working three shifts with nothing to do but watch monitors.  

Why the uproar over who blogs here?

Feel free to visit and socialize with the rest of us anytime JB! Or not!

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