Copper Thieves Beware – Copper Theft Countermeasures Are Available

Copper thieves at work destroying your home. Photo source: CopperWatcher

As a victim of copper theft, I’m always on the lookout for new solutions.  After my theft, I was tempted to protect my copper pipes by attaching the 220 volt circuit to the copper pipe creating a copper thief version of a bug . . . → Read More: Copper Thieves Beware – Copper Theft Countermeasures Are Available

AT&T UVerse for Business = Temporarily Out of Business

Just Another Happy UVerse Customer

Please excuse the spotty network availability of our websites during the past two weeks.  On Tuesday, July 20, which will be forever known by my company as “Black Tuesday,” we upgraded our AT&T DSL internet services to the new AT&T Uverse for a faster Internet connection.  You might have experienced access problems during those weeks while we fixed problems and changed over to new IP addresses.

Unfortunately, you probably experienced problems accessing our sites or emailing us for a few weeks afterwards.  Our experience with UVerse during the past few weeks had its ups and downs.  Unfortunately, those ups and downs were in the form of Internet connectivity with our web and mail servers.  We still don’t have an active fax line as a result of the upgrade either.  However that should be fixed by Thursday, August 18.

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Top 10 Real Estate Applications for the Apple iPhone and iPad

 

The iPad 2 has been out for awhile and like every other earthling, I am drooling over the possibilities of the iPad 3 and hang on every rumor involving the iPhone 5.  Besides being a gateway drug to buy all things Apple, my iPad and iPhone have freed me greatly from my PC . . . → Read More: Top 10 Real Estate Applications for the Apple iPhone and iPad

Are Your MLS Pictures Preventing Your House From Selling?

How many mistakes can you find in this photo?

Great house pictures attractive buyers while bad pictures repel home buyers.  Make sure your agent follows these tips to get great looking pictures to make your house stand out from the competition.

You’d be surprised how bad some MLS photos look.  I even found a website that makes fun of bad real estate photos.  That site is www.lovelylisting.com.  While pictures featured on that site may be extreme examples of bad photography, many MLS pictures do not do the featured house justice.  If your agent uses a pocket-sized camera with a built-in flash or worse yet, a phone camera to take pictures of your house, you are in trouble.

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