Don Reedy wrote a post about Abby Sunderland. She has been located alive. Her boat is disabled, but she should be able to survive until she is plucked from the sea. Have a great weekend!
Author: Tom Johnson (page 2 of 2)
Realtor, Peripatetic Iconoclast
All of us, proprietors of this kennel included, have known that Odysseus was destined for the big time. Well, he finally got his break! Look for our pal anywhere a gorgeous face is needed.
It's midnight. Do you know where your Bloodhound is?
True confession: I was hiding in the bushes at a webinar (name withheld to protect the perps) and discovered PhotoFunia while waiting for the inevitable “buy today! Special deal just for our attendees! Super special deal if you get your broker to bring more lambs agents to the slaughter!” Well anyway, I found PhotoFunia at this webinar. It is free and it is fun. There really was a pony in there! I hope you enjoy.
This appeared in my browser. I am not really sure how it found me, but I am very happy that Steve Jobs is one of the people that live in my PC. Just 15 minutes, I hope you enjoy.
I would like to put the REALTOR Raise the Bar (#RTB) debate to rest here and now.
300 what is your profession
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You see, NAR, we have brought more Bloodhounds.
We all banter about terms like the Keynesian, Chicago and Austrian schools of economics. I thought it might be informative to share this little quiz. Since football is finished, here is your weekend diversion.
For the record, I am a B+ Austrian.
Ja Wohl!
The interwebs are BUZZING about Google Buzz and how benevolent Google co-opted everyone’s contact lists from their Gmail accounts. I wonder how many million valid email addresses Google captured in the first 30 minutes of Buzz going live? I try to remember that Google is the same benevolent company that assisted the Chinese communists in censoring the internet for the billlions imprisoned in the PRC. More recently Google has gotten a Federal bailout in the form of assistance from the NSA to secure Google’s servers from the same ChiCom hackers they used to happily work with ‘doing no evil’, except for entrenching the folks who invented the involuntary liver donation.
The point is this: be aware of the cost of “free stuff”, no matter how cool. The price may be more than you are willing to pay in terms of your professional reputation. I would suggest that a cost benefit analysis is in order. What is the cost in professional reputation for all your social media efforts? Are your friend lists, contact lists and customer rosters available for any non-#RTB data scraper to start spamming with listing flyers? It is surely something to think about.
I don’t care if Google renders a contextual ad in my gmail account. I do care if my clients start getting real estate spam from competitors. Below is a relevant video.
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Sign this contract with us, and we will deliver fresh leads right to your in-box! The cost? Well, the cost is more than covered by just one deal! Can you afford not to take advantage of this? Should we bill you on the 1st or the 15th of the month?
iPad is the real estate kiosk. I found this leaked video from December. The earth moved for me when I saw the guy change the kitchen cabinet finish. The 3D CAD interior design idea has been around for a while, but now you can put it in HER purse so SHE can redecorate your listing while waiting at the car wash. Then we go viral from the app store. She can then collaborate with all her friends and they all can redecorate my listing. One of them will buy it or redecorate some other house on my IDX site and buy that. Now I see.
Ultimate Real Estate Search Kiosk
I just caught this. I would like to have one of these in every terminal of each airport to catch relocation buyers and refugees from the west coast as they arrive in Houston. As the cost comes down, maybe in the grocery store right in front of the Re/Max office?
THINK HARD
Brian Brady had a comment in the Oregon Suicide post and it got me thinking. I had forwarded this news to some economic development clients of ours. Nike would make a great Texas brand. I just pulled up some of the largest employers in Oregon and found a couple first rate candidates for Texas passports:
Advanced Navigation & Positioning Corporation (ANPC) We got a few folks from here to the moon and back. We even knew where they were the whole time! ANPC would surely find some kindred spirits here.
AFMS Transportation We have a bigger port, a couple of trains and a freeway or two, plus two major airports, and no small expertise in extraterrestrial travel if needed. Houston was the first word uttered from the moon by man.
AVI BioPharma I have no idea what an antisense vaccine is, but I bet that there might be a place for these folks near the largest hospital complex in the world. and maybe they can get a breakthrough in recombinant RNA for some commonsense on the West Coast.
Avista Corp. Is an energy company. My question for these folks is, “Why not come play in the bigs?” Even if Avista is a green energy company, Texas leads in wind and everything else that keeps your shiny new max-iPad charged.
Fort Bend County near Houston has already gathered a couple $ million to market target to businesses in LA. The hit teams are forming to swoop in to rescue the productive. The numbers for relocating the whole business are compelling for an entrepreneur who is under assault by every government entity to whom he must pay tribute.
Why would a West Coast business owner consider moving to Texas? Bawld Guy likes bullet points so here we go:
- Cost of housing: half.
- Salaries let’s call it a push, unless you have union labor and then, as we say yipee ki yo!
- Income tax- What’s that?
- Welfare payroll levies reduced
- Residential Property tax-It’s how we pay for stuff like non teacher union schools and non union road construction.
- Business Property tax- We’re gonna give it back to you if Read more
I know Teri is really busy today. But busy never stopped this crew from having a party!
Happy Birthday Teri!
Work hard-Play hard. Now back to work. This video was created at Animoto. Last year when our last listing sold, I terminated our visual tour account because the video upload for You Tube took forever to render and it cost $30/month. Animoto costs $30/yr. I grabbed the thumbnails from the sidebar for our party hounds. Animoto takes about 20 min to render the embed code, but they send you an email when it is ready and you can start another while you wait. They have freemium option that gives you a 90 sec. clip from your photos. Give it a try
I hope you enjoyed the party. Happy Birthday Teri!
I have been wandering around this Acropolis for a while
now and yesterday I got an email from the proprietor.
Are you game? It’s okay to say no, but
I think you would be a fun, very irreverent
addition.
My response was: What I think- Wow. Of course I would love to contribute to BHB.
It’s like being asked to join the Delta Force middle aged, overweight and not being able to shoot straight.
I consider it a huge honor. Let me know what your publishing requirements are.
So, how did this happen? As any chubby chumley knows, the way to get past the bouncer
is to have a smoking hot chick with you. Now, I know that Greg is head over heels in love with
Cathleen, so the short skirt ploy is probably out.
I come with a hot chick in a fur coat.
Hot Chick in Fur Coat
Once I made it past the bouncer, like any job you have to pass the security check. Believe me, these guys are tough. Greg should consider contracting with Homeland Security. No underpants bombers here!
More secure than the TSA
So here I am, still wandering around in a daze. Thank you for inviting me, Greg. I hope that I can add something to this discussion that is worthy of my illustrious colleagues to the right.