Realman

Timmothy's cartoon today is easy to relate to Real Estate on many levels. Let's start with:Stinky HomesA home that stinks is NOT going to sell at the same price as comparable homes on the market. The stink makes your home not comparable. What makes a home stink? Pet smells and often food smells, ...

I subscribe to the financial theory that competition is healthy. Physical competition should be left to the young, trained, professionals.We all have had complicated Real Estate transaction that left us wishing that we could be put is a boxing ring with our opponents (especially if our opponent w...

The eating competition between the guinea pigs (Titus & Philemon) is over. Philemon wins! I do have a Real Estate message here BUT during this series of cartoons the most famous eaters name has come up, Joey Chestnut, more than once.Joseph Christian Chestnut is an American competitive eater who h...

Timmothy's cartoon made me think, what is my weekend worth? For that matter, as a 72 year old man, what is my workday worth? Like a child, I still pick up coins I see on the street (not because I need the income).The answer to "what is your weekend worth" really comes down to balancing your menta...

Titus and Philemon are guinea pigs... it's hard to make that rhyme and apply it to eating grass. 🙄I've watched two guinea pigs eat grass in our back yard and the little area they fed in never looked mowed but it's fun to imagine. In the meantime it's mowing the old fashion way.Many new home owner...

In a previous post from last week, In A Pickle, Ray Henson left a comment that for some reason made me think of Denis The Menace.That led me to wonder what ever happened to Jay North who played Denis. I was surprised to read he passed on just last year. Read about him HERE.When I Googled Jay and ...

We've probably all have gotten caught up in eating. Maybe it wasn't an out right challenge, maybe it was a potluck dinner, maybe it was a teen challenge, maybe (if you were of age in the 60's & 70's) it many have had to do with smoking a leafy substance.Over eating, no matter what the reason, is ...

Have you seen the July Challenge posted by Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Real Estate Svcs.  here in the rain? The challenge is: I am proud to be an American... This is NOT my entry but I will call it a "warm-up" to my entry. My previous post (Sunday) would qualify as an entry BUT I want to ma...

I thank God for this Nation. I pray it survives the current assault of communism that we are seeing creeping into our political system. Communism has been tried over and over again and the result has always been a miserable failure with the death and misery of hundreds of thousands of people.  We...

It seems like every year I see more and more COOL cars.I love the "tricked out" and restored vintage cars but lately I've been seeing more and more cars totally built for speed. In addition to the Lamborghinis there are Porches and others who's names I can not pronounce. How about the Koenigsegg ...