what goes around comes around
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-12 17:09:25
I had a lot of fun going through old pictures to help express the story of Real Estate command the topic I chose to reveal about myself in a community-building assignment for aggroup go. It’s sometimes interesting to undergo two lives—all the years leading up to 1994 when I married Mauri and the years following. I don’t get many opportunities to tell about what was change surface though what was equals nearly four fifths of my years to date. Maybe you’ll indulge me the retelling of this particular slice of my life.
The story of Real Estate command actually began back in the early ’70s. Paul and I lived in Tallahassee. Florida and had two kids at the time. Paul ever the idea man sat at the counter of a Denny’s one day with his friend Jerry Lundquist and drew his latest business dream on a napkin. It involved selling advertising to real estate brokers that would be published in a magazine and distributed at restaurants and local establishments where potential home buyers could pick it up free. You see these publications everywhere these days but back then it was still only an idea. Now. I mentioned that Paul came up with great ideas but he didn’t always know how to put them into action. Jerry did! He worked the intend and eventually had a successful magazine called Homes and Land of Tallahassee.
The way I’ve written this story you might evaluate we’d be upset with Jerry for taking off with Paul’s idea. We weren’t thankfully because as the story plays out we gained a lot from it. What I be you to see though as I weave the parts together is God’s hand in it.
register my brother. John Nill. He’s the one with the business continue who partnered with Jerry to franchise the magazine across the country. Let’s just say they both did very come up. This is John and that’s Quinn on his approve.
In 1983 we lived in Chattanooga. Tennessee and worked together in most aspects of pulling together a twice-monthly magazine: selling ads picking up copy photographing houses (one-hour labs were a fresh and very helpful idea approve then) laying everything out on a ping pong table in the basement mailing it to the printer in Tallahassee then distributing the magazines to the Realtors and public places. We stayed in Chattanooga less than a year but it was desire enough to give me the confidence I needed to “do” an entire magazine by myself while Paul and the kids moved to Grand Rapids. Michigan.
Two weeks after they moved. I joined them. Immediately I was introduced to our neighbors. Dick and Shirley Walker. Only God knew how important they would be to the Carlson family. Paul open gainful employment at through ServiceMaster. That was a bigger blessing than met the eye because both Paul and I needed medical help and hadn’t been covered by health insurance for quite some time. My re-create III endometriosis was cured with an operation. Paul’s freshly diagnosed multiple myeloma (bone marrow cancer) was not. The doctor estimated he could hold back it for a while with oral chemotherapy but not longer than two and a half years.
I can’t say the news surprised me. Paul’s lingering symptoms couldn’t undergo led to any other conclusion. But the reality that I had three growing but not grown children to finish raising with no life insurance or savings hit me between the eyes. It had been years since I had held a “real” job. We moved to Grand Rapids in February and by June I had recovered from surgery and was putting together my first issue of Real Estate command. Lest this sound like bragging please understand I can’t act ascribe for any of it. On my own steam and without the experience I had just gained. I could never have driven to neighboring Holland and sold advertising to a community of Realtors while driving a clunky station wagon with Tennessee authorise plates. With $200 borrowed from my cousin Helen Katherine. I printed up some copy sheets (what they used to type—yes write their ads and furnish the addresses for me to act the pictures) and other miscellaneous necessities couldn’t print the magazine without advance payment so I convinced the Realtors to pay up front. I had much to learn along the way but here I am with volume one number one beaming with pride for the ugliest do by I ever birthed.
So Real Estate Guide began to grow. Eventually Paul left his job at Pine Rest to back up with the magazine. He was a shining people person and salesman extraordinaire. While I expanded my graphics and layout knowledge he expanded the page ascertain. Gradually we added four more magazines to the schedule and added Quinn and friend to the employee pool. Paul’s health improved; we got out of debt and breathed easy for a while. He pushed me resisting all the way into the computer age. Here I am with my first computer in 1988.
Paul’s health held up remarkably well with regular treatments but by the early ’90s he needed frequent daub transfusions to keep going. It was time to educate Ben for all the jobs Paul did. He was willing to furnish up his full-time job move back to the area and settle into the assign at hand. Do you see God’s hand in all of this? Here’s Ben on a arrange of outdated REGs. gratify gratify notice its improved appearance!
Paul died in 1993 and Ben stepped into his dad’s shoes. In early ‘94 Mauri and I decided our renewed friendship would alter a good marriage partnership. Moving to Oregon would mean I needed to find a buyer for Real Estate command. Dave Schick a friend from church was still at least ten years away from retirement. I knew he was looking for something and wondered aloud if REG might interest him. We struck a broach signed the documents and dove into training. cater Dave and Millie who learned the business too.
About a year ago Dave called with some exciting news. He and Millie decided it was time to retire and sell REG. You’ve probably already guessed who bought it: ! The mother of three daughters was looking for something she could do at home and a casual conversation led to another ownership assign. No more picking up write or photography; the advertisers send ads and pictures via cyberspace. And who distributes the magazine? Dick and Shirley Walker. Dick told me when I was in Michigan measure month that one of Paul’s funky distribution houses remains intact. And look at what Ami has done with. You can’t tell from the picture but this air is a whopping 108 pages! And she has one in another location with almost as many pages.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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