Brad and I just attended and taught classes at the certified residential real estate conference.  This year the conference was in Hawaii which was great given that it's dark and cold here at home.  We met up with Tricia Andreasen, the CEO of Prostep Marketing.  She is the one who designed our current web site and blog.  We took a goofy fun picture together in front of a poster she had made up for the conference on my web site.  The weather on Oahu was terrible.  It rained every day and the wind blew about 25 mph.  Good thing we were inside teaching classes on real estate.  I taught classes on marketing strategies for 2008 and Brad taught on negotiating skills in a soft real estate market.  There were over 900 attendees at the conference.  We had a chance to meet and have dinner with our good friends Bryan & Sharnee Epley who own the RE/MAX of Alyeska real estate company.  It was good to see them.  Funny how you have to travel out of state sometimes to see your good friends.  We also were able to get together in small groups and discuss the big issues facing our industry.  We are well equipped with proven strategies to get homes sold in our current market.  If you have questions, post a comment here or email me.  Kristan