❓ActiveRain Tips & Tricks from Brian ☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email BrianI always enjoy participating in the monthly #ActiveRainChallenge. I am grateful that Kathy Streib and Eileen Burns 954.483.3912 are hosting this month's challenge.This is such a good challenge for the newbies, and hopefully they will read a lot of the posts and get active in the Rain.I would think that most of the tips and tricks I have, most people who will read this post will already know them, haha. If not, please feel free to reach out, and I will explain any that you weren't aware of, or perhaps you even know a better way for me to do what I have been doing!Some things that I have learned over the years that make life in the Rain a bit easier: Sha... 10/01/2026

🏛85234 Housing Headlines 10-2-26 ☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email Brian️Not only is Gilbert a thriving business community, but its access to a nationally ranked public school system, an abundance of family-friendly activities, and over 300 days of sunshine per year make Gilbert a sought-after place to call home in Arizona and the Southwest United States. I specialize in the East Valley of the Phoenix Metro area - Gilbert, Mesa, Chandler, Tempe, Scottsdale, Apache Junction, and Gold Canyon☀️For ALL of Your East Valley AZ Real Estate Needs📞Call or 🙋‍♂Text Brian at 480-773-2370📨Email Brian 10/02/2026

The other day when my husband and I were driving to town, I saw a cloud and, in that cloud, saw a face.  My husband only saw the cloud.When we imagine, we see endless possibilities."If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."William Arthur WardFor me that face in the cloud was quite real and ever changing as clouds do."Everything you can imagine is real."Pablo PicassoWhen we were younger as children we had great imaginations because those imaginations have not been influenced by our later life experiences."With a bucket of Legos, you can tell any story. You can build an airplane or a dragon or a pirate ship – it’s whatever you can imagine."Christopher MillerImagination and dreams are partners in our own future, in our desires to move forward."All ... 10/05/2026

Once again when driving to a residential listing appointment here in Golden Valley, AZ,  I heard again this radio advertisement by a “world famous sales trainer” who stated "90% of all salespeople have never read one sales book. " Believe it or not there is not a valid statistical source for this statement. Imagine that?This “so called world famous sales trainer” also stated "20% of your people deliver 80% of your results." Yes, there is a source for this statistical percentage and it is called the Pareto Principle.  However, there is no research validating this as statistic respective to salespeople.Some HistoryIn the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, Vilfredo Pareto an Italian economist observed that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population. Later, Dr. Juran, a Romanian... 10/03/2026