{"id":473,"date":"2006-09-26T17:54:43","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T00:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=473"},"modified":"2006-09-26T17:54:46","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T00:54:46","slug":"blogoff-post-96-ask-the-broker-are-you-glad-you-did-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/473\/blogoff-post-96-ask-the-broker-are-you-glad-you-did-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogoff Post #96: Ask the Broker: Are you glad you did this . . . ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a question with a following, judging by the 300 unread emails in my inbox:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are you glad you took the Sellsius&#176; 101 Blogoff Challenge?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Emphatically, yes. BloodhoundBlog is going to end up with dozens of new, worthy posts as a result of this &#8212; call it by its right name &#8212; dumb stunt.<\/p>\n<p>I normally work from around 6 am to around 10 pm, a 16-hour day. I&#8217;ve been at this since last night at midnight, so I&#8217;ll finish in a little over 18 hours. My arms are tired and my brain is slightly mushy, but other than that I&#8217;m in good form. I could do a listing appointment right now and no one would guess that I&#8217;m toast.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I really thought this would go faster than it has. At my best &#8212; which ain&#8217;t now &#8212; I was averaging about nine-minutes a post. The Leggy Blonde has been reading behind me, and she has been gracious enough not to tell me what kind of typos I&#8217;m making.<\/p>\n<p>But: This is proof enough that this is possible. My whole life, I have argued that the secret to getting anything done is to not stop doing it, so I could probably throw another 35 posts up against the wall between now and midnight.<\/p>\n<p>But I won&#8217;t&#8230;<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/blogging\" rel=\"tag\">blogging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/sellsius 101\" rel=\"tag\">sellsius 101<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a question with a following, judging by the 300 unread emails in my inbox: Are you glad you took the Sellsius&#176; 101 Blogoff Challenge? Emphatically, yes. BloodhoundBlog is going to end up with dozens of new, worthy posts as a result of this &#8212; call it by its right name &#8212; dumb stunt. I [&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":[12,3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-ask-the-broker","7":"category-blogging","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":433,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/433\/blogoff-post-56-ask-the-broker-what-should-i-look-for-when-im-evaluating-a-neighborhood-to-buy-in\/","url_meta":{"origin":473,"position":0},"title":"Blogoff Post #56: Ask the Broker: What should I look for when I&#8217;m evaluating a neighborhood to buy in . . . ?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This is hard, so I'm going to make it easy:What should I look for when I'm evaluating a neighborhood to buy in?Because of the Fair Housing Laws, this is actually a difficult question to answer. 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