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Parsing Pronouns, or, “What Do You Mean, ‘You Got Their Fine?!?'”

Question #2:  And Exactly How Much Was That?? It turns out son #2 doesn’t owe anyone anything. What he meant to say was, “I got there fine” (as in, “I arrived safely”). The back story:  he and a friend biked to school for the first time the other morning, and was under strict instructions to...
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I Suppose That’s One Way Not to Get Overwhelmed By Voicemail Messages

“Press 1 If You Want to Sell Your Home, 2 if You’re an Annoying Solicitor, 3 If . . . .” I don’t recommend it — at least for Realtors who actually want to make a living — but here’s one way to cut down on intrusive voicemail messages:  let your voicemail(box?) fill up, so...
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Real Estate’s New Generation Gap

Millennials vs. Baby Boomers One of the most startling things I heard at yesterday’s Edina Realty annual meeting was the degree to which the Realtor ranks nationally are now dominated by (relative) old fogeys:  something like half of all active agents are now over 40 years old (and not a few are over 65!).    This, at the same...
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