http://www.joanreynolds.com Real Life Real Estate Tips Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:09:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This has been quite a year, of fighting to hold onto my house....actually several of them. I have worked hard to do everything possible to find buyers, get the loans modified, satisfy the banks in some way. After a year of waiting for the other shoe to drop, so to ... http://www.joanreynolds.com/2010/02/surrender/ I think that my world view has just changed radically. No, I am not changing my political party. I am still an Independent waiting for someone on either side to use common sense and come up with solutions to problems facing middle America that seem incredibly obvious to all but ... http://www.joanreynolds.com/2010/02/sustainable-happiness/ I may have written about this before, but I just want to share that this week I watched myself go from feeling lost and abandoned and homeless, to a feeling of freedom and choice and a whole new way of living my life. First, it is imperative to have safe ... http://www.joanreynolds.com/2010/02/change-your-mind-change-everything/ I so admire the people like Seth Godin, who blogs every day and it is almost always something good. There are times he even blogs twice a day! And I read and enjoy both. Somehow, I can't imagine coming up with enough interesting topics, but I guess if I start ... http://www.joanreynolds.com/2010/01/what-has-happened-to-personal-integrity/ Sometimes family just is more important than whatever you were planning to do. My Mom celebrated her 90th birthday last week, and it completely overshadowed Christmas and New Year's as we readied ourselves for the celebration. Almost like a wedding, we spent weeks gathering letters and tributes ... http://www.joanreynolds.com/2010/01/fifteen-days-late-starting-the-year/ I love the week before New Year's. It is almost a lost week....Christmas is over, no one knows exactly what they, or anyone else for that matter, are doing. It is a great time to re-group, re-organize, get ready for the next year by tidying up the loose ends of ... http://www.joanreynolds.com/2009/12/as-the-new-year-awaits-us/ What happens to the year between Halloween and New years? It just all seems to slide together somehow. My to do list gets longer (I found a great free online place to keep one, by the way. Check out www.TeuxDeux.com, particularly if you are visual and right brained...so easy ... http://www.joanreynolds.com/2009/12/oops-i-have-been-awol-for-a-month/ Well, my cousin wasn't the only one keeping up with me by blog! I can definitely say that is motivating, but where does a week go? I am so impressed with some bloggers I follow, like Seth Godin, who blog almost every day...how does he do that? Each one is ... http://www.joanreynolds.com/2009/11/discipline-wherefore-art-thou/ I was just talking to my Mom, and found out indirectly that my cousin keeps track of me by my blog. There probably is a way that I would know if someone besides me is reading this thing, but I don't know what it is. Over a year ago my ... http://www.joanreynolds.com/2009/11/hello-out-there/ Timing refers to anything that is necessary to move the contract along to closing on time, as in "time is of the essence" for the buyer to do a timely home inspection, making specific application with a lender for that house,  getting your paperwork and documents in on time,  and ... http://www.joanreynolds.com/2009/11/what-is-timing-in-real-estate/