{"id":13355,"date":"2010-10-07T06:16:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T13:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13355"},"modified":"2010-10-07T06:16:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T13:16:36","slug":"i-had-a-hugely-productive-day-yesterday-despite-everything-so-i-got-to-give-all-that-time-back-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13355\/i-had-a-hugely-productive-day-yesterday-despite-everything-so-i-got-to-give-all-that-time-back-today\/","title":{"rendered":"I had a hugely productive day yesterday, despite everything, so I got to give all that time back today."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back, after some travails.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I showed with two different clients, wrote five contracts, opened one escrow and moved 39 domains. I finished the day in South Phoenix, just as the mother of all storms was rolling across the Valley of the (cloud enshrouded) Sun. Y&#8217;all think you have weather where you are, but you ain&#8217;t seen a storm until you&#8217;ve lived through one of ours.<\/p>\n<p>Witness:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/splendorquest.com\/Paradise_drenched\/P1080447.JPG\" width=\"468\"\/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s hail, forty-five minutes after it pummeled everything, followed by heavy rainfall, followed by still fairly warm temperatures. In other words, that&#8217;s some hardy hail. <a href=\"http:\/\/splendorquest.com\/Paradise_drenched\/\" target=\"_blank\">There are more photos here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I left my clients soon after that photo was taken. The streets were paved with rushing rivers, and the trip home, which should have taken 20 minutes, lasted a full two hours.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, the server swap was grinding on without me. We had a little trouble getting the (very big) BHB database back on line, but all else was pretty smooth. Scenius.net is down, and I have to make a host of minor fixes to some of my PHP files, but everything else seems to be normal.<\/p>\n<p>Was all this worth it? We&#8217;re faster than a raped ape, and i haven&#8217;t done anything to supercharge our performance yet. It sucks when things don&#8217;t work just as you planned, but this &#8212; at last &#8212; was the right move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back, after some travails. Yesterday, I showed with two different clients, wrote five contracts, opened one escrow and moved 39 domains. I finished the day in South Phoenix, just as the mother of all storms was rolling across the Valley of the (cloud enshrouded) Sun. Y&#8217;all think you have weather where you are, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,212],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-flourishing","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16548,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16548\/real-estate-auctions-not-just-for-foreclosures-anymore\/","url_meta":{"origin":13355,"position":0},"title":"Real Estate Auctions:  Not Just For Foreclosures Anymore","author":"Brian Brady","date":"October 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Two years ago, I started paying MLS, NAR, CA, and SDAR dues.\u00a0 Since my wife Debra was taking on more of the lending responsibilities, I spent the bulk of my time working with the real estate agents.\u00a0 Having MLS access allowed me to hold broker opens for my agents, hold\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2628,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2628\/comments-to-contacts-to-clients-bawld-guy-talkingat-unchained\/","url_meta":{"origin":13355,"position":1},"title":"Comments to Contacts to Clients: Bawld Guy Talking&#8230;at UNCHAINED.","author":"Brian Brady","date":"February 20, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes, you don't have to look far for expertise; it's right in your own backyard. 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