I cannot validate the story I am about to tell you but it came from a good friend who told me last weekend what happened last week to her best friend's daughter who is an elementary teacher in Fort Lauderdale. The fifth grade teacher was asking her students Read More...

This week, Barb Van Stensel replied to my post titled: The New Jack The Ripper. She ended her response with “Just my two cents.” I thought, she gave me a reply that is far much invaluable that just “two cents.” Barb's and all of your inputs are not just Read More...

Trying to reconcile with the extreme polarities or real estate of recent years, something extraordinary happened lately that finally made me understand the value of real estate versus asking prices. Price is something we can easily grasp, usually retail Read More...

Do you think you are a positive person? (People who really know that answer are our peers, our friends and family.) Since the decline of the real estate market in the past two years, everyone gradually psyched down and now they are crying the blues. I Read More...

There used to be a time when the dispossessed would lament: “Hey buddy, can you spare a dime?” Now, with inflation, they ask for dollars, instead. George Carlin best describes the definition of a homeless: “Those people are not homeless, they are HOUSELESS.” Read More...

Once-and-a-while I still hear comments from people who say that our profession, our job is so easy and we make big fat commission checks by doing so little. Perhaps it is a normal assumption from outsiders looking in. When I was younger I had the same Read More...

Since you have been a Realtor®, do you have a mentor or colleague who inspires you, whom you look up to? (Motivational speakers are excluded) There are many of my peers whom I admire and respect profoundly but there are three in my view who are my shining Read More...

Last night, at a colleague Realtor's® birthday party, a guest jokingly blurred out that insipiduous comment: “You real estate agents make so much money…” A congenial competitor replied “Yeah, I just bought me a new money press” and another jumped in with Read More...