I would say it's cold up here - but 70 degrees on Christmas.

Merry Belated Christmas to you!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.Closing one more SFR before 2016 arrives

Take care, I hope everyone had a Happy Christmas and New YearsRalph Perea

I worked every weekend for probably my first 15 years in the business. and only took vacation at thanksgiving and Christmas.. once you get momentum and on a roll the last thing you wanted to do is take a vacation in the middle of the prime selling months that 10 day vacation set you back 2 months...

Thank you I feel like a kid at Christmas.

The day I told her was the day my family got together for Christmas, she posted it on Craig's list and asked if I would be available to show it.

In the REI world, that means cut your losses, take your assumed appreciation now (before the mounting losses take that away), and move into an investment that makes money from the start.You're right, I don't think much of rationalizing how tax deductions (if it was a tax credit I would have greater appreciation for it), and a paid down principal (added equity that you can't use until you sell...so it's basically a trophy).  

How do you know those "trophy" numbers you mentioned will give you the "scoring" numbers you need.  

Matter of fact when he had me come to his Christmas party at his home ( 2 million ocean front digs) I asked him you know your much more polished than most brokers who work for r me and he then explained his past job.Even today most agents did something else in their career's  rare is the person like me who started at 18 and never have done anything else.I work with no less than 20 brokers in 12 states..