Blog; the mere word I would have never been able to tell you what it meant just a few years ago. By accident I stumbled upon an article in a NAR publication about the impact of social networking. Something 
clicked that day, and clicked in a big way. Prior to this I was your type of Waukesha County real estate agent that thought he was pro-active. Pro-active being set by a standard of opening my check book to enormous amounts of expenses to keep my website moving along, and letting people tell me it was all under control. It did not take long to realize that pro-active became synonymous with taking the bull by the horns and aiming and setting my goals in a linear fashion that would take me, my clients, and my business into a whole new direction in a light year fashion; make that warp drive fashion. My grandmother was always reminding me by saying "Tombo people can make their own misery, or they can make their
own destiny". She also reminded me "to be careful of what I put out there in life because it just may come back to help me one day."It really hit home one day when I received an email from a man that had read one of my first posts I did on an American classic; that being Harley Davidson. It did not dawn on me right away that the post was "old" but more importantly the man that contacted me was one of the head guys from Harley. This was before I learned that I even had such a tool as a spell checker. Harley Davidson motorcycles: A Milwaukee product, and a World class product! Well, it turned out this the guy! It took me awhile when I received a call from a man from reading one of my posts that said he wanted to look at Waukesha County Lake homes . I thought how nice; when I asked his wife why they wanted a million dollars home for a summer place, and I needed to qualify them to make sure they could afford it his charming wife said that her husband worked for Miller brewery in Milwaukee. She said that before that he was head of "Big time soda cpmany in Atlanta" North America. These people were the greatest, and I mean some of the greatest people I have ever met. Down to Earth; and I hope his new adventure of heading up South African breweries in Bogota, Columbia is very well. You, I will never forget in the lesson of blogging, and it's effectiveness. It really hit home when I thought I had arrived and when I learned I could connect all these dots with linking my blog everywhere, and becoming part of social networks I never knew existed. I still pride myself on keeping my same recommendations from people I had started with on ActiveRain. We can really hold the world in the palm of our hands if we want.
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I manage my existing relationships well by networking with Facebook, and many other social sites that lots of my clients follow us on. The funniest thing I have come to laugh at myself about is not how my name has been used in my existing relationships in Waukesha County real estate, but the larger question would be : Are you friends with my dog Lars? My dog has small cities of people following him, and I am the first to step up to the plate and say "Good boy Lars!" I can take my blog and use it to promote ares, markets in areas, finding a waukesha county real estate agent, or even finding a Waukesha County agent. To find my post is to find my business, my 
contacts, and more important has allowed me to connect my listings, my business, my clients, and just as important allow a vehicle for my
future clients to follow to get to know how hard I will work for them. I can always generate interest by letting people know what is selling in Waukesha County Hey Tom Braatz, What went on in The Waukesha County Real estate market in the last week? . When they needed help at finding a Waukesha County Real estate agent they could read Finding a Waukesha County Real Estate agent in the Waukesha County real estate market just got a lot easier. People now know that it is not my face that is what people recognize in Waukesha County homes sold but more importantly my branding with my buddy My Best Business Branding Ever: The Notorious Happy Go Lucky Lars. Blogging allowed the public to know I was proud to be a past Wisconsin farmer, a Wisconsin bee keeper, and a parent that is very proud of the light of his life, my son and friend Spencer.farming: I only pray the fields would be as dry and productive as when Lars,Spencer, and I took this picture You see, it is not so much the cultivating I do with my existing clients that I thank God for every day, but it is the sense I have learned from blogging and ActiveRain that allows me to plant the seed to be sowed down the road with my new clients that I will meet and one day be able to say "See you at closing."
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Well, it's that time of year again. Perhaps I will put a little gray shadow or liner on my dog Lars and parade him around the neighborhood as a vampire. I must admit he looks pretty dapper in a cape and those majestic ears of his. My son will hide all of his peanut butter cups so his Dad's OCD of eating those blasted little things won't send him into a diabetic coma. Doorbells ringing, and all those little kids saying "trick or treat" or "Happy Halloween" in Waukesha County. Happy Halloween to everyone in the Waukesha County real estate market; see the bottom of this post for a schedule of scheduled times for kids for trick or treat times in Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
Once in awhile I find myself saying "I wish I would have had a crystal ball", then again I often find myself asking why things get the way they do. Perhaps there is no rhyme to a lot of reasoning. I sit back and can think of many reasons and come up with many ideas of why the world has got itself in such a fast paced time. It dawns on me after a pretty good illness lately that I am not a spring chicken anymore. There is an old saying that "
pride myself on keeping up on every aspect of technology to better anyone buying a home in Waukesha,Wisconsin, buying a home in Hartland or Pewaukee, Wisconsin, or anyone buying a home in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. It really does not matter where you are buying a home in Waukesha County or selling a home in Waukesha county; what does matter is the fact that I want to set myself a little bit a head of others. When you are looking at finding a Waukesha County Real estate agent I want to be one of the first 
Waukesha County Real Estate agents to tell you of all the great real estate agents in Waukesha county, and all the great real estate companies in Waukesha County. There is not a day that goes by that I will not be grateful for having the mentors and teachers I have had in the Waukesha County Real estate market , and that I learn from everyday and will always have the ability to count on. I am very grateful for the last 24 years.
If we really worked at it and we found you a home in the next week we could make the closing deadline of November 30th, 2009. It will require some work, and effort, but if you are looking at buying a home in Waukesha County, and you are a first time home buyer in Waukesha County we could make this happen. All you have to do is pick up the phone and call me or email
me. The first time buyer tax credit is for real, and it will only last for so long. Have questions about the credit? Want to start, but need to know the steps or the procedure? Call me and I will be glad to talk with you. You can always email me at 
Often in life, and when buying or selling Waukesha County Real Estate the process can be confusing. When it seems like we should trust our gut feelings, or more appropriately our intuition as it is known, it turns
out just fine. Some of my best decisions have been listening to my intuition. I guess it just goes to show that 
for the best for us. It's no different when we are buying a home in Waukesha,Wisconsin or we just started looking at homes for sale in Waukesha,Wisconsin.It's also no different when we are buying a home in Oconomowoc ,Wisconsin or we just started looking at homes for sale in Oconomowoc,Wisconsin
usually comes with great rewards. I find that most people I become
friends with after I close on a property with them often will say they wish they would have acted sooner.Of course there is no crystal ball that will guide us but or intuition will seldom be wrong. If you are looking at selling a home in Waukesha County start by requesting an on-line market below. As usual you will have this back within 24 hours. Just curious what is out there to buy and what deals are really to be purchased? Then feel free to check my MLS icon and surf the MLS on Tom Braatz. It really does make a difference to me what side of the fence you land on when buying or selling a home.
When you are looking for homes for sale in Mukwonago,Wisconsin, or you are looking at selling a home in Mukwonago or any homes for sale in Waukesha County, you can always
search everything with my IDX MLS search button below. If you are interested in selling your home or even knowing what is my Waukesha County home worth please visit the on-line value below. It's a busy time, and Mukwonago real estate companies are there to help you. The following information is for the period of 9/24/2009 to 10/24/2009 and is for the entire MLS content for this period.
