Two Days into a Cruise: The Call That Almost Sunk Us
We’d been planning the trip forever, the kind of trip you keep pushing back for one more closing, one more listing, one more “next year.” We finally found a deal on a cruise line that made it impossible to say no again, so we booked it. Two deals were in escrow back home, but we had boots on the gro
What Nobody Tells You About Selling the Home You Raised Your Kids In
I lightly rubbed my fingertips from the tail towards the head of the shark facing towards me. It was a childhood ritual I had before turning on the light. My dad had shellacked a piece of driftwood, ran wiring through it, added a light fixture, and mounted two baby sand sharks which he caught down t
The Nose Always Knows
She and her husband stood on the walkway admiring the pleasing façade of the house. Their eyes scanned from side to side, up and down taking in all the landscaping and architecture. I opened the door, stood along the wall of the foyer, and awaited their initial reaction to the awesome view ahead of
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