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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws [...]

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Here it is a week since my last post, and I’m trying to figure out how to get back on the real estate blogging track.  I’m very committed to writing about real estate and sharing what I know, but sometimes, life just gets busy.  And that, can be a good thing.
Last week was Week Two [...]

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Well, it’s the day after Memorial Day, and I got meme’d. Per Laurie Manny in Long Beach, a meme lets other people know details about you that you might not otherwise disclose on your blog, and like Laurie, I’d prefer to keep it that way. But Nick Bastian, who writes a great blog on the Light [...]

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I have grand visions, at times, of accomplishing all that my overly active mind comes up with.  And then I stumble somewhere along the way, or there’s a change in the landscape that I must adapt to.  In life, and in real estate.
One of my grand schemes this year was to create a personal blog, [...]

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My mom continues to inspire me.  She’ll be 80 next year, and she’s already told me that she wants a big party, something that she’s not every had.  She raised seven children, mostly as a single mother.  Times were tight, so I learned the value of the dollar.  She went back to graduate school and spent a [...]

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I’ve been watching this little guy grow up over the past couple weeks.  And yesterday was the first day, I was actually able to get a photo.  He actually came out from under his hiding place on my patio, so I could get this close up view through my arcadia door.

McCormick Ranch Golf Club is [...]

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Today is Alexander Graham Bell’s birthday, and the reason I know this is because of the Google search screen.  I’ve seen the various graphics that Google uses, but until today, did not know that they link to current information. 
My first job out of college was with Bell Laboratories, which is the research and development arm [...]

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I’ve watched the “meme” game being played about the blog-o-sphere and thought it was fun to know trivia about bloggers that I’d never discover in any other scenario.  Fun to read, excruciating to write.  I got tagged twice in one day, over two weeks ago, and I’ve just been pretending it never happened, much like:
1. My [...]

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When buying a home is Arizona, the home seller completes a six page document called the “Residential Seller’s Property Disclosure Statement (SPDS), and delivers it to the buyer, typically within five days of contract acceptance.  You may have heard real estate agents calling this helpful disclosure document the  “spuds”.
One of the disclosures that must be made [...]

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OK,  I admit that it’s quite unusual for a real estate agent to sit in class the week before Christmas, when she’s already finished her requirements for her license and it’s been extended until 2011…. but I thought it was just a wee bit out of line for the instructor to have me stand up [...]

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