Making Friends with Trademark Properties

One of my favorite shows in “The Real Estate Pros” formerly known as “Flip This House and The Real Deal” on the TLC channel. Richard Davis and his protoge, Ginger, do business the same way that Paul and I do business (in most aspects). We don’t “flip” houses the way these guys do. But the [...]

Livin’ in a VAN (an organized one) Down By The River

Do you ever wonder how you got things done with out the help of a trusty office colleague? That’s how I feel about Amanda. Amanda started working for us almost 5 months ago and she is awesome. No one in her position has ever picked up as much as she has so quickly. And I [...]

RealEstate/PropertyManager Crunch

I couldn’t help it, my wheels starting turning when I read an article on Michael Arrington (TechCrunch Blogger) in this month’s Wired Magazine. Did you see the article? In this article, Arrington said that he has a goal to create 15-20 different spin-offs of his highly successful TechCrunch Blog such as MusicCrunch, SoftwareCrunch, TelComCrunch, etc. [...]

Maxin’ Out My Hard Drives

I feel like I have maxed out my credit cards and I am desperately looking for another credit card to transfer the balance to so that I have some “room” on my virtual credit card. OK, this credit card situation that I’m talking about it is all hypothetical. That’s how I feel about my external [...]

12 Hours of Daylight Time?!

Today summer officially rolled in at 1:06pm making this the summer solstice and the longest day of the year (and the hottest one so far). I heard a news story today that said we would have a total of 12 hours of daylight today. 12 hours?! What will I ever do with all of that [...]