Went to my Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors orientation meeting today. It’s one of the things you do to join the board- attend an orientation meeting. Now I’m a REALTOR, not just a Real Estate agent. Whoopee! If I’d known they were going to have free pizza, I wouldn’t have eaten first. In the morning I went to the bi-weekly office meeting at City Life Realty. That’s the broker that I’m affiliated with. Among other things, we talked about property taxes. There’s always something new to learn about real estate, that’s for sure.

Maryland Real Estate Factoids:

• In 2005 Real Estate accounted for 14.7% of the Maryland GDP (Gross State Product).
• In 2005 there were 99,000 residential real estate transactions in Maryland.
• Real Estate provides 114,000 part and full-time jobs in Maryland.
• Property tax revenue in the State of Maryland was $546,000,000 in 2007.

I’ve put up a simple web page about real estate on my website. Unlike a lot of other agents, my website isn’t devoted entirely to real estate. Frankly, I find those sites to be somewhat boring. There’s a lot of stuff on my site that has nothing whatsoever to do with Real Estate.

Welcome Jeff to this blog site! I’ve never met Glenn either- Let’s get together and have lunch sometime?

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