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Merry Christmas From My Home to Yours

The cards have been sent, the tree is decorated, the presents are wrapped and all is ready for the Magic of Christmas Day. May you and your family be blessed with the Merriest of Christmas Days and May Your New Year be Filled With Love, Good health,Wonderful Happiness and Prosperity.

May the Spirit of Christmas Touch your Hearts and be shared with all those you love throughout the year.

William

]]> http://therealestatetextbook.com/2010/12/25/merry-christmas-from-my-home-to-yours/feed/ 1 http://therealestatetextbook.com/2010/04/01/how-to-determine-the-best-real-estate-professional-for-you/ http://therealestatetextbook.com/2010/04/01/how-to-determine-the-best-real-estate-professional-for-you/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:20:27 +0000 William Johnson http://therealestatetextbook.com/?p=1227 How to determine the Best real estate professional for you!

Sometimes San Diego real estate buyers and sellers experience difficulty selecting the perfect Real Estate Professional to assist them with their home buying and selling experience.

Often it can be as easy as taking a test to find the perfect agent for your home buying or selling experience.

Find out who truly is the very best Real Estate Professional for YOU!

(DON’T SCROLL DOWN YET)
DO THE SIMPLE MATH BELOW, AND THEN SCROLL DOWN TO FIND THE PERFECT REAL ESTATE AGENT FOR YOU.

No Peeking!!!
It’s AMAZINGLY CRAZY how accurate this is!!

1) Pick your favorite number between 1-9
2) Multiply by 3
3) Add 3
4) Multiply by 3, again
5) You should now have a 2 or 3 digit number….
6) Add the digits together

Now, scroll down.

With that number, see who your PERFECT AGENT is from the list below:
(1) Your cousin, Vinny, who just received his real estate license this past Tuesday

(2) Bob, who rode his bicycle 7 miles to your house, because he lost his license to drive

(3) Nancy, who told you to get in, sit down, and shut up, because you were in for the ride of your life

(4) Madeline, the agent who consulted with a Ouija board to determine your home’s list price

(5) Eric, who brought his aggressive Pit Bull along for showings, because he didn’t know “who” or “what” we might encounter while viewing vacant properties

(6) Marcus, your car’s auto-mechanic, who also sells real estate on Sundays, and sometimes in the evenings

(7) Allison, who once volunteered her time at the hospital, but is into real estate as a hobby now.

(8) Ellis, who told you before you could sell your home you needed to complete the list of 78 improvements on your home. Total cost of improvements $56,000. Home value – $150,000

(9) William Johnson – Realtor for over 20 years and lives here in wonderful San Diego. Caring, experienced and the consummate professional.

(10) Oh, oh, need to cross Don’s name off this list, because we buried him last month.
See, it wasn’t that difficult to select the perfect real estate professional after all.

At the end of your successful real estate home buying or selling experience with #9, you will know how accurate this test was!

Why are you laughing???

P.S. Stop picking different numbers. Just dial (858-487-6975) and ask for William Johnson, author of the Real Estate Text Book with over 20 years of experience. Tell him you took the test, and it told you to call.

*This test is meant for entertainment purposes only! Any names used (other than my own), are either fictional, or have been changed to protect the guilty!

It was Julia that first used the words “Mother’s Day” in her “Mother’s Day for Peace” movement back in 1872. If Julia were alive today, she might be categorized as a modern day peace activist in that she promoted peace after having observed the carnage about the Civil War and Franco-Prussian war. Her campaign was to inspire women the world over to rise up against war.

Her “Mother’s Day for Peace” was first observed in London at the International Women’s Peace Congress in 1872. All the while, a second woman Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis in her efforts to heal the nation after the Civil War attempted to improve sanitation and child care that she learned from her brother who was a doctor, for what she called the Mother’s Friendship Day.

Ann Reeves Jarvis a school teacher from Philadelphia is given credit for saving thousands of American lives in America after the Civil War through her teaching women in her Mother’s Friendship Clubs, the basics of nursing, child care and sanitation. Ann’s daughter, Anna Jarvis though is the one that succeeded in introducing Mother’s Day in the way we celebrate today.

Anna Jarvis wanted to honor her mother after her mother’s death in 1905 and decided that all mothers should be honored  with a special day designated as Mothers Day. She stated that effort with a letter writing campaign, urging businesses and congress to declare a national day of honor for Mothers. Her efforts she hoped would increase respect for parents and strenghten family bonds.

In 1908 in Grafton, West VA, a church service would honor Anna’s mother and that church would ultimately became known as the International Mother’s Day Shrine. Anna’s efforts would continue and in 1912, the Mother’s Day International Association came into being.

Anna continued to lobby the US Congress and convinced them of the need to honor all mothers which lead to a Congressional Resolution honoring mothers in 1913.

In 1914 on May 8th, by presidential proclamation, Woodrow Wilson officially set aside a national day, the second Sunday in May for the observation of Mother’s Day to honor all mothers. As Mother’s Day became very popular commercially, Anna became infuriated that the real sentiment of the day was being sacrificed by greed and profit. She even did a door to door campaign as well as a letter writing campaign to have the holiday, Mother’s Day rescinded, feeling that it was not being observed the way she had intended.  But despite her efforts that Mother’s Day should not be about gifts and flowers but genuinely expressed appreciation of motherhood in writingby ones children, Mother’s Day remains commercially profitable today in America and has spread throughout the world.

In the true sentiment of what this day means, let us each in our own way express to our Moms how much they mean to us and our appreciation of their sacrifices they made to rear us, protect us and love us. Let us then set aside this day in reverence of our appreciation to them.

Happy Mothers Day!

Two and half years ago our precious little one ( a Yorkshire) developed a cough and the vet believed she had a cold. It did not sound like a cold so we sought out a specialist’s advise and it was discovered that she had a polyp in the back of the throat area. A biopsy was performed and she was diagnosed with Lymphoma.

Chemo Therapy

Believing that it was caught very early, an oncologist was recommended and treatment ( 25 weeks of Chemo ) was underway that same day. The 25 weeks of Chemo was difficult on all of us as we saw her hair change texture and fall out only to start growing back in as curly and in some of the oddest colors when she went into remission. It took the better part of a year to return to some normalcy. But after that round of chemo, CeCe did so well for almost a full 6 months.

After the next check-up, we received the heartbreaking news that the cancer had returned and she would need another 25 week round of Chemo. This was completed and then only weeks had passed this time before it became necessary for round 3 to be started.

With all the Chemo , steroids and medications used to help control her body’s reaction to the chemo, her body scans now were indicating that her heart was enlarging and that there were even more serious problems with the lungs and the scans clearly indicated that the trachea was now collapsing. Into the 3rd round Chemo for 10 weeks, the new medications were really not helping her and she was having difficulty with getting enough oxygen. These past few weeks after her most recent Chemo treatment, the changes and new difficulties in her health were becoming dramatic. We found ourselves at the emergency ward this past week, day after day and CeCe’s heart doctor, and the two Oncologists discussed that her quality of life was slipping rapidly and that there was now no hope for recovery and that her oxygen levels were getting so low that her body was now going into stress and her life was now passing at a very accelerated rate.

Final Reconciliation

Reconciliation came this past Thursday Sept 11th, at 4:30 PM as she was released from her anxiety of being oxygen starved and allowed to pass on to the Rainbow Bridge where we one day we will all come together again, this time never to be separated. Her life was so very dear to us and she filled our lives with such much joy. No less like a child to us than any other, her valiant struggle is over and she is now at peace. We celebrate her life this day. Writing this through our tears is so very hard but we wanted to share this lasting tribute of her with you.

CeCe’s Life

Her life was a such a total joy that we are so grateful for and feel that we were so blessed to share. It was a love that was so unconditional. Through our aching heart and tears, we wanted to tell you about her and how she was such an integral part of our lives and family. The source of love in our lives matters little, be it human or some other. What’s important is that as part of our life journey that we learn to love and be selfless in that love, knowing that it is returned to us many fold and it shapes who we become. Over our lives it would be expected that we will have many opportunities for love, different kinds of love and frequently, a love that is tested. Having to let her go may have indeed been the most difficult part of our love for her. 

Click here to view some of our favorite pictures of CeCe.

Celebration of Life

On this day of the celebration of her life, we will share with you something that had been shared with us to ease the pain and sorrow of the loss of our precious CeCe. I guess in some ways, it embraces the hope and belief we have that when God closes a door, he always opens a window.

We love you our little CeCe girl and we miss you so very much!

The Rainbow Bridge

Just this side of heaven is a place called  Rainbow Bridge

When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that loved one goes to the Rainbow Bridge

There are meadows and hills for all of our special little ones so they can run and play together.
There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and they are warm and comfortable.

All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.

They are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.

They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. Her bright eyes are intent; Her eager little body quivers. Suddenly she begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, her legs carrying her faster and faster.

You have been spotted, and when you and your special loved one finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your little one , so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.

Then you cross Rainbow Bridge
together….