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March 21, 2016

“Soft” Contemporary vs . . . “Hard”?!?

One of the ways you can tell that a product is dated or out-of-fashion — or people think it is — is that it acquires an adjective. So, for awhile, “Coke” became “New Coke.” In the wake of Watergate in the 1970’s, Minnesota’s Republican party became the “Independent – Republican” party (at least until Ronald Reagan...
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“I’m Not Buying It”

Realtor vs. Non-Realtor Definitions To a non-Realtor, the idiom, “I’m not buying it” roughly translates to, “I don’t believe your [obviously bogus] explanation.” To Realtors, however, the phrase means something much more literal. Namely — at least when uttered by a Buyer’s agent — “I’m not buying it” translates as, “I’m not buying the home . ....
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