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Posted by Kris Krieger on November 8, 2007, 2:48 am
> Well it appears for the very first time I have a client attained
> directly from my website.
Cool! I hope it turns out well for you. Let us know.
> Never before has that happened.
> She's in Birmingham, AL and I spent 3 hours on the phone with her this
> past Mon.
> Yesterday she overnighted her package of ideas to me which I will
> receive today.
> She's an attorney and I already did the websearch on her.
> The site is 9.85 acres in a very rural area 20 miles south of
> Birmingham on the top of a high hill, the foot of the Appalachians.
> Supposedly you can see 25 miles from the top of the site.
> She's sending me aerials and topos and I've already viewed it in 3d on
> google earth.
> The front of the property is level with the road, which is a gravel
> logging road, and then abruptly and steeply slopes down toward the
> rear property line where there is a stream and a pond.
> She has some unique upscale tastes and has subscribed to Architectural
> Digest, her bible, for the past 20+ years (gasp).
> She has collected antiques from all over the world and wants to
> incorporate them into the design.
> (a pair of 13' high mexican mesquite doors-hand carved, a pair of
> large scale moroccan hand pounded iron gates, 17th century wood and
> marble corbels, stained glass transoms from the 15th century, etc.,
> etc.) One of the interesting parts is that her husband is wheelchair
> bound and always wanted a treehouse when he was a kid but never had
> one, so now in the creation of their dream home she wants to
> incorporate a treehouse into it somehow, wheelchair accessible of
> course.
>
> No money has changed hands yet but I expect to have her under contract
> by the middle of next week.
>
> I likes these kinda projects, they stretch your synapses almost to the
> snapping point from all directions and you've gained so much when you
> come out the otherside.
> A hugely powerful learning experience, and thats what its all about.
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