Duane’s Real Estate Video August 27
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| Duane’s Quote of the Day There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.
-- Victor Robinsoll
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Duane’s Joke of the Day
The CIA had an opening for an assassin. After all of the background checks, interviews, and testing were done there were three finalists...
Two men and a woman.
For the final test, the CIA agents took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun.
"We must know that you will follow your instructions, no matter what the circumstances.
In side of this room, you will find your wife sitting in a chair. Kill Her!!!"
The man said, "You can't be serious. I could never shoot my wife."
The agent said, "Then you're not the right man for this job."
The second man was given the same instructions. He took the gun and went into the room. All was quiet for about five minutes. Then the man came out
with tears in his eyes." I tried, but I can't kill my wife."
The agent said, "You don't have what it takes. Take your wife and go home."
Finally, it was the woman's turn. She was given the same instructions to kill her husband.
She took the gun and went into the room. Shots were heard, one shot after another. They heard screaming, crashing, banging on the walls.
After a few minutes, all was quiet. The door opened slowly and there stood the woman.
She wiped the sweat from her brow, and said, "This gun is loaded with blanks. I had to beat him to death with the chair."
Duane’s Business Tip of the Day
Trying to be successful in two careers simultaneously is like being married to two different people at the same time.
Think about it.
Darwin Award of the Day
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(30 May 2009, Louisiana) Back seat drivers beware! Annoyed at how slowly her boyfriend was driving, Tamera B, 22, encouraged him to pick up the pace so she could get to work on time. Joking that it would be faster to walk to work, she opened the door of the pickup truck and stuck her foot out before falling to her death.
But wait! Was her complaint valid? Nope. Deputies of the jurisdictional Sheriff's Office stated that the truck was traveling at highway speed on I-12 at the time of the incident. Her death was ruled accidental.
Duane’s Social Commentary
I thought this article was very interesting…
"Who's hotter — Republican women or Democratic women?"
A local Minnesota Republican Party operative yesterday waded into one of the signature political issues of our time: "Who's hotter — Republican women or Democratic women?"
The Senate District 56 GOP Party posted a Web video yesterday laying out its position on the hotness question. It leads with images of prominent Republicans such as Sarah Palin, Michelle Malkin, and Michele Bachmann; the soundtrack, naturally, is the Tom Jones chestnut, "She's a Lady."
Then, there's an abrupt switch to the other side of the aisle. The theme is subtly conveyed with the strains of the Baha Men hit "Who Let the Dogs Out?" Photos of Michelle Obama, Janet Reno, Rosie O'Donnell and Hillary Clinton flash on the screen.
The video quickly made its viral way through the blogosphere, and provoked strong reaction from state politicos and others. State Democratic chairman Brian Melendez called the video "sexist and offensive."
"The day when a woman was judged by her looks rather than her competence and intelligence should have passed three generations ago," Melendez said in a statement Tuesday. "But apparently Republican leaders in the year 2010 still think of that bygone era as the good old days, and want to bring it back." Melendez called for the video's removal and an apology from branch GOP chairman Joe Salmon.
Local Republican state House candidate Andrea Kieffer also requested that the video be removed, Paul Schmelzer reports for the Minnesota Independent. Kieffer called the video a "juvenile attempt at 'marketing.' "
"This is not something I would condone, and I am sending a request that the webmaster take it down immediately," she wrote in communication with the Independent.
As of Wednesday morning, the party had removed the video from its website.
Still, Salmon took a parting shot at what he seems to view as the humorless enforcers of political correctness. "It [is] really unfortunate to relearn that the other side is severely lacking a sense of humor," Salmon tweeted Tuesday.
Calls and emails to Salmon and the site's webmaster were not immediately returned Wednesday morning. But webmaster Randy Brown told the Minnesota Independent yesterday that the video was mainly intended to inject levity in the election season. "[I]ts only intention was to bring a smile to a few peoples' faces, and possibly irritate a few others. Is it fair? Does that matter? It wasn't intended to be fair. It was intended to be funny," Brown said.
Politicians — Republicans and Democrats alike — actually didn't find it very funny when they argued Palin was the target of sexism during her 2008 vice presidential campaign. Palin herself branded Newsweek's November '09 cover photo of her in running shorts as sexist. That same image is the first photo that appears in the Minnesota GOP group's video.
It also seems that the district's image might benefit if GOP workers spent a bit less time compiling cheeky viral videos and a bit more time proofreading the party's Web page. Here's its mission statement:
"OUR MISSION: Senate District 56 Republicans [sic] exist to promote our Republican principals [sic], to help elect Republican’s [sic] to the various offices which represent our area and reflect our beliefs. We in the district support each other and our neighbors to have government enable us to succeed, and not us enabling government to grow."
Even though the offending video has been removed from the District 56 website, it of course lives on in YouTube — with the clear disclaimer that it's meant to provoke a strong reaction, and plainly succeeds. Because of its content, YouTube also requests that users register and confirm they are over the age of 18 prior to viewing. With all that in mind, the link to the video is here.
The video furor marks just the latest episode in a long season of election-year gaffes. Here's a sampling:
· A New Hampshire state legislator resigned last week after joking that Sarah Palin should also have died in the plane crash that killed former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.
· Democratic Rep. Mike McMahon of New York fired an aide after she issued a memo highlighting "Jewish money" donations to McMahon's challenger.
· Republican Rep. Zach Wamp, candidate for governor, last month walked back his suggestion that Tennessee secede from the federal government.
· Ken Buck, a tea party candidate for Colorado Senate, apologized last month for disparaging "birthers."
· A tea party group in Iowa removed a billboard likening Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin after numerous protests persuaded group leaders that it detracted from the intended message, warning against the depredations of big government.
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Duane’s Real Estate News MBA – delinquencies down overall but first time delinquencies up
According to the latest data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA), the nation's overall delinquency rate dropped to 9.85% in the second quarter, down from 10.06% of all loans outstanding three months earlier. The percentage of seriously delinquent loans -- ones 90+ days late or already repossessed by lenders -- dropped to 9.11% from 9.54% in the first quarter. The drop in loans 90 days or more lately was the biggest the MBA has ever recorded, according to the MBA's chief economist, Jay Brinkmann. "That shows we're making headway," he said. He cited three reasons for the improvement: Fewer loans are coming into the default process; The homebuyers tax credit, which increased demand for homes, generated many pre-foreclosure sales, removing the attached delinquent loans from the statistics; The government and lender-led mortgage modifications "cured" some payment problems.
However, even with those bright spots, there was one troubling finding: First-time delinquencies increased after four quarters of decline. It inched up to 3.51% in the second quarter from 3.45% in the first quarter. According to Brinkmann, the reversal reflects the weakness in both the housing market and the overall economy. "It's a question of jobs," he said. "It takes a paycheck to make a mortgage payment."
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I need to say this again… this market right now is the BEST Buyer’s Market you or I will ever see in our lifetime. If you or anyone who you may know is looking to buy a home or sell a home anywhere in the world, let me know. I can help.
If you are looking to make a move to real estate as a career, please shoot me an email or give me a call.
This is Duane signing off. Happy Trails to you! As always, I am proud to be an American. You can email me at duane.beisner@era.com... Or visit my website at www.rejedi.com.
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