Senior Airman Carlene "CJ" Johnson, obtained her CDRE™ in 2018. She is a U.S. Air Force veteran, having served from 1989-1993, and in the Texas National Guard from 1996-1999.
A native of Mandeville, Jamaica, CJ came to America when she was six years old. When she was 17, while waiting for her mom to pick her up from Houston's Memorial City Mall, she happened to walked into a recruiter's office and decided then that she wanted to serve in the U.S. Air Force.
One year ago today, I was on the trip of a lifetime - Dubai and South Africa. While Sean stayed back at the hotel (recovering from jet lag), the boys and I went on a "desert safari" where we went sand surfing and camel riding, and hung out at an outdoor hookah lounge in the 118 degree Arabian Desert - that was how we spent the Fourth of July 2019.
This may seem obvious. And yet, the most obvious things sometimes evade us. This piece of advice that can change everything.
It should come as no surprise that some divorcing homeowners do not want to sell their house. And when that person is the person living in the home, they are in a powerful position to sabotage the sale.
Denise Schroeder, CDRE, has sold over 500 homes in her 7-year real estate career, ranks in the top 1% of all Realtors in the state of Oklahoma, and has appeared on 10 reality shows, her latest one being "Worst Cooks in America."
"Out of 11,000 submissions, only 14 were chosen - so I'm pretty bad," she says. Denise has appeared on Oprah twice, the Steve Harvey show, Rachel Ray, The Talk, HGTV's House Hunters, and now on Food Network's hilarious series.
I was talking with a friend yesterday whose husband told her he'd like to have a birthday party next month, at their house, with about 25-30 people over.
"I am not at all comfortable having that many people over at the house, even if they're all outside," she responded.
I then asked the question, "When will you feel comfortable having a backyard party?" What, exactly, are we waiting for? Is it a vaccine? The election? A 6-month, 9-month, 12-month flattened curve? The eradication of Coronavirus from the North American continent?
People get married for a variety of reasons. Love, companionship, dreams of having a family, fear of being alone are some of the reasons - and lend credence to the fact that emotions are what drives people into marriage.
The reality of a divorcing homeowner is one of fear, paralyzation, overwhelm, sadness, anger, and that's just the beginning.
Jose Morales, CDRE™, graduated Cum Laude with a Business Administration Finance degree from Cal State Northridge.
Today is the three-month mark of our nation being declared in a state of emergency, and this notion of "quarantining" began. It was supposed to be for two weeks, and the reality is - it's somewhat indefinite.
