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It has been about 4 or 5 months ago since I learned that FHA reconizes a seperate savings account setup for newlyweds as a legitimate source of down payment funds.  The "FHA Bridal Registry" account really got my wheels turning.  I thought of sure that I would get some traffic and a few people asking me for more information after I did a blog post about it on my blog and did some Facebook PPC advertising about it.

After running the test for the past 3 months though, it is time to pull the plug on the Facebook campaign.  It has not generated a single lead that I can track.  Granted, a few people may have hit my FHA Bridal landing page and then did a search on the bridal landing page, but I haven't dug deep enough to check and see.  I'm just not confident…

One of my more recent interest ( Past Couple of Years ) has been with The Downtown Louisville condo scene.  I've often wondered how I would feel about living downtown in one of the new condos and being part of the "rebirth" of Louisville's downtown.

With so much going on downtown, I can easily see how I get excited about the idea.  Being within walking distance of Waterfront Park, Actors Theatre, The Center for the Arts, The Louisville Slugger Stadium, The new yet to be named downtown arena.  It is all very exciting.  Cost of entry still seems to be a factor.  Living downtown isn't cheap.  Most of the condos start at over 200K and are smaller then the average sized apartments for the general area.  Could 2010 be the year for Downtown Louisville?

I'm not…

So I'm officially on the hunt.  After working with my "reseller's" account on my current host for the past 6 or 7 years, I'm ready to make the move to a managed, dedicated server.  I'm still only running about 20 domains off my account, and I'm only pushing about 60% of my current data transfer quota, which I think is 5 GIGS a month.  It seems about time though.

This move is all part of a natural progression to increase customer service.  The dedicated server should increase the overall customer satisfaction with decreased load times and give me a little bit more flexibility in what I want to run on my server.  For instance, I've been thinking for a long time about taking my Google Analytics account offline and running Piwik ( http://piwik.org/ )in its…

As the weather turns REALLY pretty here in Kentucky.  More and more people are starting to think about lake and boating season.  It seems that the waterfront lot market at Nolin is starting to mature.   Fewer and fewer waterfront lots are available for sale. 

If you've been thinking about buying a lot at Nolin, don't hesitate.  As Mark Twain said "Buy land, they're not making it anymore."

Start searching for Nolin Lake Lots

Happy Easter everyone!

Those that know me well, know that in a not so distant past -- I was a restaurant owner.  A restaurant that specialized in all things pizza.  We also had a full bar and if the money had been better, or the employees a little bit more reliable, I would still own it.  The problem with owning a restaurant is that when everyone else is ready to play, you have to work twice as hard.  But I've never been afriad of hard work.

The other day my buddy Mike tweeted about going to visit the Dogfish Brewery for a break.  Mike is a Realtor who works the Rehoboth Beach real estate market.  He had no idea how jealous I was that he was walking through the doors of that establishment.  The wild thing about that is that I had just got done watching the founder of Dogfish…

One of the things I love about my job as a Realtor is the personal connections with people I'm able to make every day.  Similiar to the bartender at the pub, I do my job while getting to know my clients.  I'm able to learn about little their LIFE.  What motivates them,  how their family dynamics work, etc.  It always amazes me how my clients got to their current point in life.  I guess you could say I love a good story.

I'm also fortunate enough to make personal connections with other Realtors across the country.  At the urging of some of the posters on the REW forum I jumped back into my twiter account and made some great connections.  I was keeping an eye on my "twitter stream" and one of the guys I am following says that he is "sad his sister is moving…

Sometimes, even when you are minding your own business, something falls in your lap.  That is what happened to me recently while I was browsing GoDaddy's expired domain auctions.  There it was, just waiting to be adopted and taken home.  I told myself I didn't really need a domain.  Domains have to be cared for.  You have to feed them with content, and watch after them and be sure that they are growing okay.  I didn't want to be one of those owners who just adopted a domain and then neglected it.  What kind of life is that for a domain to have?  Surely it deserves better than that.  But I couldn't just let it sit there and let it expire.  It was too...  Well, it was too perfect.  So I dropped $10 and tied myself to domain ownership.  Not that I'm new to…