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Hi everyone, I have come to the sad conclusion that a tighter form of control has to be in place when I have an open house. I refuse to lose my time chasing phantom people with fake names, phone numbers, addresses and e-mails. I am TIRED of it, and I find it's very rude of some uninformed people to disparage my time, not only as some are so fake sometimes, but also as they refuse to acknowledge that this is a legitimate profession with time that deserves payment from somebody, and the famous much maligned percentage is what covers it. What would you suggest we REALTORS do to control this state of affairs? I suggest we institute a uniform way of doing things, like ask for (and receive and record the information there on,) a valid piece of ID at the door, and if they refuse they can go on their merry way... That's what I plan to do from now on!

A daughter went to her mother complaining that her life was awfull and bad luck always seemed to follow her. The mother listened carefully, then went to put 3 pots of water to boil on the fire. She put a carrot in one an egg in the second and tea leaves in the third. After a while, she arranged all the items each in a different bowl.

Then, she turns to the daughter and asks her: "What do you see?" The daughter looked at her mother baffled, then she said: "A cooked carrot, a boiled egg and tea". But, the mother insisted: "What else did you observe?" I don't know", said the girl. So the mother tells her this:

"These three items all suffered the fate of boiling water, yet they all reacted differently, the carrot was a hard core strong type and with the pain, it became soft and fell apart, the egg was all soft and gooey, with just a very thin protective shell, but having undergone the boiling water, it became hard and brittle. But, the tea leaves, they worked through the heat and changed it as well as themselves...

So, I've got the tea, anybody wants to join me?