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Before becoming a REALTOR I spent many years as a stage magician.

One of my favorite routines involves three vintage black 45 RPM phonograph records, that, with the help of three silk handkerchiefs…red, yellow, and blue…magically change to the colors of the silks.

My patter for the routine is that these are not just records but a new invention called “video discs” which enable me to mail my client a video magic show if I can’t perform for that audience in person.  I explain that I have three different programs to choose from – the red show, the yellow show, and the blue show but the factory made a mistake and colored all the vinyl discs black so I can’t tell which is which. That is when I magically “color in” the records on both sides to mystify the audience.

You might wonder what, besides the color change of the records is so amazing? Just that I developed the story line about the video discs in 1973 while performing at the world famous Steel Pier in Atlantic City. Obviously, this was well before the invention of  our modern DVD technology!

Obviously the story show a clearly that the magic of today is the technology of the future. We should never doubt the possibilities that science and technology holds, especially in the world of real estate. Today’s housing market brings possibilites that we just didn;t consider before. For example there are many environmentally friendly developments in houses that were not possible before. Construction techniques and alternative energy sources have brought us what builders are calling “Green Houses”.

Just as there are ways to accomplish levitation through magnets builders can accomplish large energy savings and more technologically amazing things. While these things become less amazing when they are explained or become available to all of us, they are  no less fascinating. Leaving us to think about the more important things like… how do those bunnies keep coming out of those hats…cloning perhaps?

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