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Procuring Cause: How can we make it less of an issue? If there was one word that would universally describe Procuring Cause in the real estate world, it would be "confusing." The general consensus among real estate agents is that there really is no easy definition of Procuring Cause. It ranges f...

These are a few of my favorite things. Social Media. Every 3rd person I meet seems to be a social media "expert". Even though I'm still learning a lot about SEO, WordPress, Hyper-Local marketing, etc., just because you were laid off from your job and had some cool tech-looking cards made, doesn't...

Do you Twitter? I don't know about you, but I've been getting into Twitter a bit lately. I opened up my account at Twitter on August 1, 2010, but didn't do anything with it until recently. For the last week or so, I've been semi-addicted. There are all sorts of conversations about real estate, te...

Happy Easter! Hi everyone. Just wanted to write a little blog to say Happy Easter to everyone. My kids were up early, excited that "something" might have came to the house last night. They woke me up and demanded that I get up and come downstairs. So, I did. Even if it was slowly. (half to wake u...

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Hi everyone! I wrote a blog a couple months back (the link to it is below) about real estate auction sites and that I really didn't like them. Well, it turns out that a new friend of mine, Mitch Gover, has came up with a pretty good way to combat the downside of the already established auction si...

Farmington, MI and Farmington Hills, MI Pothole Reporting and Repair Info Isn't it amazing that potholes appear year after year, without fail? The main reason that they keep coming back is water: precipitation that shows up as ice, rain and snow then seeps into pavement cracks, freezes, causing t...

Novi, MI Pothole Reporting and Repair Info Isn't it amazing that potholes appear year after year, without fail? The main reason that they keep coming back is water: precipitation that shows up as rain, ice and snow seeps into pavement cracks, then freezes, causing the pavement and underlying road...

Livonia, MI Spring Pothole Hotline is now Available Winters in Livonia, MI are brutal. The freezing and thawing, freezing and thawing, over and over as Spring approaches brings out potholes. Lots of potholes. As frost leaves the ground, parts of the roads in Livonia, MI break apart creating potho...

A real estate friend of mine out in Las Vegas, Renee Burrows, recently wrote a blog about how a close acquaintance of hers was in the process of purchasing an "approved" short sale. There is No Such Thing as an APPROVED Short Sale! Each buyer has to be Approved by the bank(s) on a short sale. Con...