Real Estate Views from St Pete

ActiveRain has become a community and a family, though I was looking for neither.

ActiveRain has become a place to write, which I want to do, but have never made the time (AR made me do it).

ActiveRain is a place to share ideas, market conditions, theories, things to use and things to buy.

ActiveRain is where you can mentor and be mentored (for all of need both), where you can encourage and be encouraged, where new agents and old agents can share, where you can laugh or cry.

It's a resource, of course, but so much more, because it's Active, and ever changing. 

It's a place to rejuvenate and grow your business, because the many contributors make it Rain.

It has a draw - whether you call yourself addicted, or whether you just look forward to reading the other blogs, to see what your favorite people have to say.  E-mail used to be fun, but when spammers outnumber friends and clients....well, let's say I check AR first (though I've limited it to outside working hours - it's kind of like not eating the first potato chip, or taking the first drag on a cigarette (I don't but others do) or the first sip of morning coffee. When I open AR it's all to easy to just read one more page of blogs, or check one more forum, or post one more reply. So - I treat it like a treat. Sometimes I read AR instead of the morning paper, usually I read AR instead of the magazines I used to read in the evening that are now spawning piles all over the family room. 

AR's constantly evolving, and I like seeing what Matt and Caleb are up to, and what changes they've made to AR.

What's AR to me? An indispensable part of daily life.