One of the things that I found most appealing about long form blogging back in the day was the ability to tell full stories, to create complete word pictures, and to convey complete concepts. In a world of sound bites, click bait titles, twitter feeds and short attention span theatre, the idea of writing in paragraphs was (and is) quite appealling. In the 8 years since I have regularly written on the blog, that has not changed.<\/p>\n
I still enjoy it immensely.<\/p>\n
But other things have changed. While I can (and do) still mix it up with people when needed, I have found that I enjoy now more than ever seeking out examples of the BEST in the real estate industry as opposed to examples of what NOT to do. In short, there is no shortage of the negative; no shortage of opinions and criticism. What there is a shortage of is uplift and positivity. It is a good thing to point out the positive of main street, rather than only focusing on the battles with wall street. So I am going to try to write the positive that is so scarce vs the negative that is so prevalent.<\/p>\n
I am going to be posting weekly about people from around the world of real estate. Friends of mine. People who attack the business from all different sorts of angles. These will all be main street types. People who are on the street selling. People who have overcome obstacles. People who serve their clients and differentiate based on value instead of just price. People from whom you can draw some inspiration.<\/p>\n
Come back each Saturday morning. (Yes. I am giving you a time so that I force myself to hit the PUBLISH button.) Want a taste of what is to come?<\/p>\n
Great. Here goes.<\/p>\n
Right about the time that I was leaving California (over 20 years ago now) to move to Indiana another family was immigrating to the United States and specifically to the East Bay. Rama and Sunil<\/a> have lived the American dream in an amazing way. Rama became a REALTOR and they have built their business Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One of the things that I found most appealing about long form blogging back in the day was the ability to tell full stories, to create complete word pictures, and to convey complete concepts. 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