“There Goes My Realtor!” Admittedly, the intended effect is for clients who see me in and around the neighborhood where I live (by Cedar Lake in Minneapolis) to see my car on the road and say, “There Goes My Realtor!” But, my custom license plate (above) is also a conversation-starter when I’m parked. Like today,...Read More
Vanity License Plates — Realtor Edition Espying a similar vanity license plate in the St. Louis Park Target parking lot this am, I made a quick connection with Chicago area Realtor Craig Caffarello. It turns out I’m too late to generate some referral business: Craig and his wife — who’s from the Twin Cities —...Read More
Hard to argue with the sentiment expressed on this vanity license plate (spotted today near the Lakes, on my lunch break). The only catch: skipping gas and switching to electric will set you back $80k (?), at least if you want a Tesla.Read More
Vanity License Plates, CA Style Need a little context? The license plate in the headline (“THX YAHOO”) was attached to a $100k ($150k?) Mercedes convertible in the parking lot of a Portola Valley eatery, just a stone’s throw from the Stanford campus and Silicon Valley. The obvious inference: the owner cashed in when Yahoo! went public, way...Read More
Charity Benefit Brainstorm I was at a charity benefit last night where I got the following brainstorm: If you wanted to cultivate a reputation for philanthropy and good works, you could commit a sizable chunk of your time and money to those things. Or . . . you could just change your last name to...Read More
Vanity License Plates Not that I ever tailgate, but I’d think twice about getting too close to the car I saw yesterday with the license plate, “IRITABL.” Maybe that’s their point. Or, the owner is named Irit Abelson (“Irit” is a common Israeli name).Read More
