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REAL ESTATE WITH A VIEW

 

DOES THE ECONOMY AFFECT REAL ESTATE?  YOU BETCHA!  SO I'VE DECIDED TO SHARE WITH YOU A COUPLE OF MY FAVORITE TIDBITS FROM THE WEB.  AS ALWAYS, I'D LOVE TO HEAR WHAT YOU THINK.  SHOOT ME AN EMAIL ABOUT THESE GEMS:

An Explanation of the Stimulus Package

 

           It is a slow day in the South Texas town of Pearsall. It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt and everybody lives on credit.
 

            On this particular day a rich tourist from the East is driving through town. 
             He enters the only hotel in the sleepy town and lays a hundred dollar bill on the desk stating he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night. 
             As soon as the man walks up the stairs, the hotel proprietor takes the hundred dollar bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.
 

             The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to pay his debt to the pig farmer.
 

               The pig farmer then takes the $100 and heads off to pay his debt to the supplier of feed and fuel.
 

                The guy at the Farmer's Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has lately had to offer her "services" on credit.
 

                 The hooker runs to the hotel and pays off her debt with the $100 to the hotel proprietor, paying for the rooms that she had rented when she brought clients to that establishment.
 

                 The hotel proprietor then lays the $100 bill back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything. 
                  At that moment the traveler from the East walks back down the stairs, after inspecting the rooms. He picks up the $100 bill and states that the rooms are not satisfactory......  Pockets the money and walks out the door and leaves town.
                  No one earned anything. However the whole town is now out of debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.                
 

                 That, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is conducting business today.   
                  If that doesn't scare the hell out of you, then I don't know what will. 

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An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single
> student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had
> insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one
> would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said ok, we will have
> an experiment in this class on socialism.
>
> All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no
> one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test the
> grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard
> were upset and the students who studied little were happy. But, as the
> second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even
> less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too; so
> they studied little.. The second test average was a D! No one was happy.
> When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F.
>
> The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling all resulted in
> hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All
> failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism
> would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to
> succeed is great; but when government takes all the reward away; no one will
> try or want to succeed.
>
> It could not be any simpler than that....
>
 

 
 

 
 

 

 

 

 
THINK ABOUT IT,

SERIOUSLY

A West Texas cowboy was herding his cows in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud

 towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"

 The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"

 The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA

 page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another  NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.  The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe

 Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg,  Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the  image has been processed and the data stored.  He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC  connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few  minutes, receives a response.  Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says,

 "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
 "That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the cowboy. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.

   Then the cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell  you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"

   The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
   You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government", says the cowboy. "Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you

 guess that?" "No guessing required." answered the cowboy.  "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want
  to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter you are than me; and you don't know a thing about cows........      Now give me back my dog."

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Life is Like a Jar of Rocks

A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, rocks about 2" in diameter.

He then asked the students if the jar was full? They agreed that it was.

So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks.

He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.

He then asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous -- yes.

The professor then produced two cans of beer from under the table and proceeded to pour their entire contents into the jar -- effectively filling the empty space between the sand.

The students laughed.  "Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The rocks are the important things - your family, your spouse, your health, your children--things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else. The small stuff."

"If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued "there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your husband or wife out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal. "Take care of the rocks first -- the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the beer represented.

The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of beers."

 

(Jesus loves you!)...(Just so you know)

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