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From the category archives:
Cigarettes and Scratch tickets are sold together at every convenience store in America. Because people want them. They want them both at the same time. Buying a one in two chance of painful death by cancer, and, a one in a 27 kabillion chance of making some unearned cash.
Why? Because people think they’re lucky.
Here’s the [...]
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In the wake of the on-going sub-prime mortgage meltdown, many people are beginning to rethink the value of home ownership. Maybe homeowning isn’t for everyone. In an era of 72 hour notice plant closings, homeowners are chained to local labor markets, a recipe for widespread civic disaster in communities reliant on large American companies in [...]
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After you go and hit the red button, you may be wondering why you aren’t allowed to search by such attributes as crystal chandeliers, hardwood floors, or indian burial mounds and poltergiest activity. Why just The Big Three? Well, it’s because OnMarketBoston has been built on the data that owners and agents actually bother to [...]
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Remember when every company on the internet thought that you wanted to watch a stupid flash movie with animated type dancing around with spinning logos spelling out tedious marketing messages? Sure you do. Well, thrill to the sights and sounds of yesteryear as you watch the commercial I just made for our little puppet show.
Watch [...]
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I have set up a Google alert to be on the lookout for our company name (Boston Realty Hub) as well as a few word combinations I’m interested in lately, and Google alerts finds interesting things for me. This was a recent catch, from Tomas Frey’s blog. (He’s a futurist with an impressive client list. [...]
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The web invites us to do it ourselves.
A million how-to manuals. Buy wholesale. Comparison shop. Buy your own home. The only thing you couldn’t do, until BRH’s OnMarketBoston, was shop for an apartment on the web.
But you say “Waitaminute, what are all those databases I find on the web? The realtor databases? That big huge [...]
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I know, that’s a pantload of three-letter acronyms for three people eating at the Super 88 Market in Allson, but what are you going to do. TDB Records (for Teenage Disco Bloodbath) has been around a hell of a lot longer than this particular puppet-show you’re participating in. That’s one of the many reasons we met [...]
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