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<\/p>\nThis is a shaggy dog story…<\/p>\n
It begins with Jake, the world’s most playful Yellow Labrador Retriever, and Jake is a thread running all through this tapestry.<\/p>\n
And that’s the way to think of it — as a tapestry. The clients we love best — and we love to love our clients — weave themselves into the tapestry of our lives. They are with us for years — for life<\/i> we hope — and they show up again and again in all sorts of unexpected places. For, while this is a Jake story, it’s also a Ronan Doyle story and a Richard Riccelli story — it’s a story where many of the threads of the tapestry of our lives meet and merge in beautiful, unplanned designs.<\/p>\n
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But this is most fundamentally the story of the work we did with Jurij Pawlenko — himself a shaggy two-legged dog — and his lovely wife, Tatiana. And the thread of their<\/i> story runs all through BloodhoundBlog<\/a>, so much have they meant to us.<\/p>\n Begin at the beginning: Cathleen Collins was previewing houses for Robert and Lisa Pageler<\/a>, and one that she looked at was 922 West Culver St, a 1936 Ranch-style home in the F.Q. Story Historic District of Downtown Phoenix<\/a>. This was Jurij and Tatiana’s home at the time, and Jurij and Jake were home when Cathy arrived.<\/p>\n I like dogs. I’m indifferent to cats. Cathy loves<\/i> any creature with fur. She and Jake hit it off immediately, especially since Jake loves to play so much. His favorite game is fetch, and he will play it forever. Cathy threw her arm out throwing grapefruit for Jake to fetch — thus endearing herself forever to Jurij.<\/p>\n This was the Summer of 2005, and Cathy wrote about this part of the story earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n In January of 2006, we listed Ronan Doyle’s home at 1102 West Culver St<\/a> for sale. If you go to our About BloodhoundRealty.com page<\/a>, you’ll see that our brokerage consists of Greg Swann, Cathleen Collins, Cameron Swann and Odysseus the TV Spokesmodel Bloodhound. That’s true day-to-day, but there are two other key players without whom none of Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a shaggy dog story… It begins with Jake, the world’s most playful Yellow Labrador Retriever, and Jake is a thread running all through this tapestry. And that’s the way to think of it — as a tapestry. 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