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September 7, 2010

Crash!!!*

Make That a 4 Day Weekend There was a major crash yesterday (Tuesday) morning. The stock market? Nope, at Edina Realty. “ProKit,” the proprietary software platform that all 1,800 Edina agents log onto and use day-in, day-out, was out of commission from at least 8 a.m. yesterday, when I first tried to log on, till...
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"Arabia" at the Science Museum IMAX

Hopeful Precedent See if you can guess what epoch I’m describing: The West’s thirst for this commodity made its Middle Eastern purveyors rich beyond belief, and financed a campaign of conquest and terror that helped undermine it. The U.S.-led West and its demand for Middle Eastern oil? That, too. But before that, it was Rome’s...
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"Agent Remarks" by Ross Kaplan

Proposed Book TitleI know you’re supposed to come up with the book before you come up with a title, but never mind. If I ever write a real estate book — and with something like 1,500 blog posts under my belt, I probably already have — I know what I’ll call it: ‘Agent Remarks.’ That’s...
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