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Y'all say some prayers our home sales quickly! We're meeting with a realtor tomorrow, 4 1/2 months until the big move south! Hope everyone had a great Monday! ;)
Prayers and thoughts with you. I cannot imagine that selling your house is any more straightforward in the US than the UK.

Factlet for the day: In the UK we call a realtor an estate agent.

I must go look up the derivation of the word realtor as it's not obvious to me. An agency that sells real estate (estate agent) is more obvious :D
 

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Prayers and thoughts with you. I cannot imagine that selling your house is any more straightforward in the US than the UK.

Factlet for the day: In the UK we call a realtor an estate agent.

I must go look up the derivation of the word realtor as it's not obvious to me. An agency that sells real estate (estate agent) is more obvious :D
I have it:
It’s simply the fragment “realt” from “realty” with that dignified agent suffix “or” tacked on. “Realty,” which originally meant simply the quality of being “real,” took on the meaning of “real, immovable property” (such as land, houses, etc.) in the 17th century, and by the 19th century was being used to mean simply “real estate” as we use that term now.
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Interestingly the source also explains that Realtor is actually a trademark reserved for use by members of the National Association of Realtors, non members are simply "Real Estate Agents", but the term has come to be used by all of them.
 

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Prayers and thoughts with you. I cannot imagine that selling your house is any more straightforward in the US than the UK.

Factlet for the day: In the UK we call a realtor an estate agent.

I must go look up the derivation of the word realtor as it's not obvious to me. An agency that sells real estate (estate agent) is more obvious :D

Thank you dearly! And you'll have to excuse our westernized dialect of the English language, especially with me being raised in the south ;) if you ever heard me speak out loud, it would probably be very difficult for you to understand lol especially most of my family members, sometimes I even have a hard time discerning what they're saying lol
 

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I have it:

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Interestingly the source also explains that Realtor is actually a trademark reserved for use by members of the National Association of Realtors, non members are simply "Real Estate Agents", but the term has come to be used by all of them.

I did not know that, learn something new everyday ;)
 

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Thank you dearly! And you'll have to excuse our westernized dialect of the English language, especially with me being raised in the south ;) if you ever heard me speak out loud, it would probably be very difficult for you to understand lol especially most of my family members, sometimes I even have a hard time discerning what they're saying lol
You haven't heard John. Neither have I to be fair, but believe me when I say that natives of his part of Scotland have a reputation for one of the most impenetrable accents in the UK :D

In my part of the country, the accent is very light and easy for most to understand ... not as plummy as Queen's English with a bit of East London thrown in ... although my daughter, on a plane from Calgary to LA, was sat next to a man who wouldn't believe she was British and said she definitely had a Texan accent. She definitely doesn't :D
 

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good afternoon all, so my sisters husband has been having an affair for around a year!! a wee visit might be in order!!
Makes you wonder why some people even bother getting married.
 

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You haven't heard John. Neither have I to be fair, but believe me when I say that natives of his part of Scotland have a reputation for one of the most impenetrable accents in the UK :D

In my part of the country, the accent is very light and easy for most to understand ... not as plummy as Queen's English with a bit of East London thrown in ... although my daughter, on a plane from Calgary to LA, was sat next to a man who wouldn't believe she was British and said she definitely had a Texan accent. She definitely doesn't :D

That's very funny, I've never heard of a British person being accused of being Texan lol I'm sure you can make a joke out of that somehow. ;)
 

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good afternoon all, so my sisters husband has been having an affair for around a year!! a wee visit might be in order!!
Sounds like somebody needs to get his butt whipped... man!!!! Marriages are complicated! *said by a woman who's been married for almost 24 yrs
 
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