Station Fire

It has been a bad weekend here in the Antelope Valley. The Station fire has hit Acton and now threatening Juniper Hills. Several homes south of Acton were lost, families have had to evacuate. family pets and livestock have been taken to the A.V. fairgrounds for safe keeping.

Currently the Station fire has burned 105,00 acres, threatening 12,000 homes and Mt. Wilson Observatory & Communication towers.

On a very sad note on Aug. 30, two firefighters were fatally wounded when their truck went off the mountainside near Mt. Gleason. These two brave men were Captain Ted Hall and Arnie Quinones.

Why Cat Why

What the heck?? I have an 1800 Sq.ft. house with 4 bedrooms and our cat has to lay on the printer that I am using. My dog wouldn't do this.. But she would eat my sandwich I had on the coffee table that the cat wouldn't eat. Hmmmmm

Landfill Vouchers 8-24-2009

A gift from the city of Lancaster. Look in your waste management bill, they give you 2 vouchers for free dumping. This is good for 2 trips to the landfill you can have up to 1 ton of trash which if you want to know is 2,000Lbs. That's a total of 4,000Lbs. of trash. They do not accept any hazardous materials. The list of items they wont take is on the vouchers. The vouchers are good until 6/30/2010. Happy Hauling

House Husbands of Hollywood are you Kidding Me

I just sat and watch a new show on Fox Reality Channel called the House Husbands of Hollywood. The show is about 5 Hollywood couples. You have Billy & Lisa ex dodger and make up artist, Darryle & Tempest both actors, Grant & Jillian TV host and actor, Kathryn & Danny lawyer & actor Charlie and his wife he is actor and thief wife is not shown. The wives have the real jobs as they put it while the husbands don't work and take care of the house and kids. This show is pure garbage. There is not an ugly or un spoiled person among them. Folks this is Hollywood imagined reality.

Reality lets be serious the minute you put a camera in front of someone and they know lots of people are going to be watching Please. To boot all of these guys are actors or want to be actors. So guess what they are doing acting. I did the take care of the kids and house when my two were little. My wife's job paid way better than what I was bringing in. I worked nights for many years. The one guy is belly aching because his wife wont let him have Kegerator in the house, Really get a job dude even if its waiting on tables. The wives on this show are not any better they treat their husbands like they are the help instead of their husband. But how much of this is just put on for the sake of ratings. Once again a reality show that is nothing more than garbage and not reality.
I give this show a 1/2 point out of 5 points because they thought that their show would be different. It just doesn't work. Save your time and get a filling done its less painful.

What do you think of Real Estate Agents

Had lunch with a friend from Burbank today. He got really lucky I took him with me to preview a couple of bank owned properties. First thing he was shocked by the condition of these three homes and what the price that was being asked. We were just talking and he made a statement that he felt all real estate agents were crooks and were only out to make tons of money and not do much work. Did I say he was a friend? I asked him if he felt that way about me being that I AM AN AGENT! He said "he didn't think so" Wow did I need to do some explaining to him. After we were done I am pretty sure he has a different feeling about agents. But this has made me think..this is a friend that I talk to frequently and I am pretty sure we have talked real estate. But if my friends have this idea what do our clients think. And what am I not doing or not doing that they have this preconceived idea about Real Estate Agents.

So for all the people reading this post, post back to this question What do you think of real Estate Agents? What do you feel we could do different to change this perception

Social Networking

Wow everyone is talking social networking. In the past 3 weeks I have been to 7 social networking seminars. The best being Tom Fery's Summit in Palm Desert last week. If someone was wanting too start a money making business get into social marketing to the older baby boomers. This group does not have the skills to set up their phones, heck they dont even know what phone to buy. Verizon you could sell more phones and planes if you would give a hands on course on smart phones, just saying. Back to the older boomers they are hearing things like twitter,facebook Plaxo just to name a few. This group is totally lost, I have seen the blank stares and the I dont have time for this stuff. Wake up ,it is here not that I am a pro but I am getting much better and I can text my son with out him texting me back 10 other text before I get the first one off. Heck maybe I will start this business.....probably not I have enough on my plate with being a real estate agent in the fantastic Antelope Valley. If you are reading this and need help with social networking give me a call 661-466-6591 or check out some of the blogs I am following they have great information.

I was going to put a video up,but the quality of the sound and the shakey images would have made you say what's up Chuck....Had to get that in ...maybe tomorrow.

Please let me know what you think of the blog and if you have any questions post them and I will answer them to the best of my ability.
Thanks
Chuck

I feel stupid

Wow this blogging thing is going to take some time to get use too. I have been working on it for about 4 hours not sure if I have it that people can see it or not. Dont like the look of it , looking at other blogs to see how to make it look like a place you would want to stay and come back and read my stuff. If you have suggestions please let me know.

Book suggestion

It has already been a week since being at the Tom Ferry Summit in Desert Springs, Ca. I have finished his book: Tom Ferry from Breakdowns to Breakthroughs. It is 133 pages short a very easy read,good information if you are struggling in your real estate business. Topics in this book.
1. Missing the "S Factor in your Plan
2. Failing to Generate enough leads
3. Aiming for the wrong bulls eye
4. Not taking care of your W.O.M.A.N (Has nothing to do with sex or buying her gifts)
5.Failing to choose a Big Sexy Goal
6. Lacking mental Toughness
7. Executing Poorly- Ready, Aim , Launch!

If you need too kick your business up a notch I highly suggest you read this book and do just 1 thing ( you can do more if you want its ok:)
See what happens ,come back and let me know what you did and how you liked the book.
Now go out there and do something freakin fantastic