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I think Central Ohio Bloggers you will be amazed at the resemblance when they meet the BlogTour USA guys.

Although not totally complimentary to the BlogTour USA bloggers…

“what they are not doing this totally out of the goodness of their hearts?”

“they are blogging mercenaries?”

“say it isn’t so!”

I loved this “show.”

Coming soon to a street near you. High Street in Worthington on Friday the 13th.

11:00 to 1:00 @ 6902 N. High Street. See ya.

Blog Tour USA the movie

“the bus stops here”

Worthington -The Bus Stops Here!

Some parts of the country “they say” open houses are a waste of time. Some places real estate open houses must be down right dangerous…. A real estate agent blogger friend recently wrote about using open houses to market a listing:

“Conduct open houses? Maybe if you want to waste your time with tire kickers, unqualified buyers, nosy neighbors, and dangerous criminals.”

Wow I know you have to be careful in this business but dangerous criminals? We will leave her and her market anonymous.

In Central Ohio… my experience has been open houses on many homes help sell the house.
What’s wrong with having your home on the Best Open House list in Columbus for five or six days before the open house? What’s wrong with having a scheduled time when 4 to 10 couples visit your home within a scheduled two hour period? More than 10 couples if your house is in Upper Arlington, Grandview, parts of Worthington or Clintonville.

I held a listing open last Sunday, Tuesday we got the offer from buyers who attended the Sunday open house, the home inspection was on Friday. The house has been on the market awhile, we’ve had a lot of open houses… I think it was worth the time.

A Columbus Dispatch column by Lee Stratton ‘ Open Season’ from earlier this year, yes there are risks. Reprinted in the Columbus Board of REALTORS® In Contract Magazine

Lock up or remove guns, drugs and jewels. Years ago I had a “panty bandit” steal lingerie during an open house. Criminal, yes! Dangerous?

Showing and Open House Advice from Real Liviing

I’ll spend many a Sunday with tire kickers, nosey neighbors and a few good buyers if that’s what it takes. If your real estate agent doesn’t want to do open houses call me when your listing expires.

Your Blogging Type is Social and Responsible

You enjoy blogging and do all you can to advance the blogging community. From helping friends set up blogs to getting rid of spam - you take a leadership role. A super blogger, you tend to blog regularly. You’d hate to disappoint your audience. And always appropriate, there’s no way you’d blog something too personal!

I love this sort of thing… excuse me for sharing something so personal.

Thanks to the ‘“pensive and philosophical” ActiveRain real estate blogger Lexa Montierth from Arizona ( boy oh boy I wanted it to be the “pensive and philosophical” blogger from Phoenix, Lexa… Prescott would work too…)

Speaking of advancing the community. Join ActiveRain if you are “in the business.”

Local blogger? Local Blogger “to be”? Have you heard about Blog Tour USA? Columbus event is a week from tomorrow.

Columbus Ohio’s 2007, July 4 Doo Dah Parade was a good one.

It was a good parade in my humble opinion. Satire about gas prices, oil, war… interns losing personal data…whole hard drives of info. Scooter Libby inspired a lot of people…

The usual suspects, Studio 35’s Rocky Horror troupe, Terror Park at Cooper Stadium, art cars, the Fidels (a smaller group than usual…) were all there today.

The Columbus Doo Dah Parade starts at the end…

We sat next to a woman from California here on business who enjoyed Red, White & Boom, last night. She been to a Doo Dah Parade long ago in Pasadena California.

A Previous Doo Dah Parade

Doo Dah Parade

I like Red, White & Boom…there’s lots of fun things to do on the fourth but my favorite is the Doo Dah Parade in the Shorth North.

There is music with the slide show…

I believe these photos were from the 2005 parade.

1:00 PM in the Short North.