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Hooray!

June 21, 2008 – 12:41 am

We bought a house.
It’s a beautiful Victorian built in the late 1800’s which was completely remodeled 5 years ago. It sits on a double corner lot in NE Kansas City in a beautiful neighborhood of historic homes. It’s truly amazing!

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it’s nearly over (maybe)

June 17, 2008 – 11:34 pm

It is the end of a long, lonesome road. Tomorrow Jamila will be here and Thursday we will tour the cream of the crop houses I’ve seen. Hopefully on Friday we will be making an offer of some sort on a house since we’ve heard nothing about the short sale we tried to get in [...]

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Pictures

May 12, 2008 – 1:08 am

Here are some photos of the house Jamila and I are considering buying.

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A helpful tip…

May 9, 2008 – 9:10 am

If you are a realtor, it’s good to remember that you make money by selling property. One factor that weighs heavily in the decision whether someone trusts you enough to buy property with you is your friendliness.
To cut to the chase: if you treat customers like crap they are not going to be inclined to [...]

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house it up

May 7, 2008 – 11:24 am

I’m fortunate in that Jamila has the same tastes in style that I do. I was just thinking about this and how much it’s really helped make Jeff Trek III: The Search for Homes a lot easier.  My main directive is to try and avoid a really boring house in the suburbs. For so many [...]

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