Sure, you can go it alone. Absolutely. You’re out cruising the hood and you spot a sweet 4BR brick ranch with a Geller Williams sign in the yard. It is July 2024 and the rules have changed. Lot of home buyers are now paying their own realtors. Or relying on the seller’s agent to handle …
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My next listing will hit the market this week, on Thursday, April 11. It’s a 3BR/2BA condo in the Bowling Green HOA community in east Denver. Listed at $310,000, it’ll be near the low end of greater Denver’s residential real estate price range. Not only is it my listing. It is my property—an investment “flip” project I’ve done …
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I’m thinking a lot lately about complex, difficult tasks. Seems like that describes just about everything these days. Nobody’s job is simple anymore. My task is to create a smart campaign in my CRM, called KvCore, and direct it to a large contingent of contacts. It is not rocket science, but it is more …
The thumb doesn’t normally cross over the index finger. But it’s pretty much mandatory in playing scales single-string style. At least if you’re trying to “lead” with the index. That was the assignment in this exercise: lead with the index. I expect that sort of unorthodox cross-over would be just as necessary, however, if I …
It was 1982. I was a newspaper reporter in Idaho. As a one-man bureau in the center of the state, I would often drive 50 miles or more from my home in Challis (population about 1,000) to cover some sort of event. The paper’s main office was in the big city, Idaho Falls, 140 miles …
For their role in stoking the Great Recession of the early 2000’s, subprime mortgage lenders and other bad actors on Wall Street were said to deserve “Old Testament justice.” More on their misdeeds in a moment. First, exactly what is that brand of justice? I went straight to the source—to the Book of Genesis in …
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I paid the $15 fee to enter the banjo contest at this year’s RockyGrass festival. Couple of explainers: RockyGrass is one of the nation’s top bluegrass festivals, held annually in July in Lyons, Colorado, just outside of Denver. Many festivals hold contests for individual instrumentalists, and for entire bands, shortly before the main acts take …
I am a bluegrass banjo player, as is the comedian Steve Martin. In the 1970s, he would often proclaim that you simply CAN’T sing a sad song with banjo accompaniment. Then he’d do it. It sounded absurd and he’d get a big laugh. Nothing could be more untrue—you can play all sorts of depressing music …
