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October 2021
Laura Larson
Larson Fine Properties
Your Home Sold Guaranteed Realty 



Go Ahead… Give Your Self a Real Treat This Month!
The month of October can be a spooky month, maybe even a scary month with monstrous problems. Yikes!! Well maybe not, but words like that seem to be popping up everywhere as kids and adults alike look forward to Halloween.  
In fact, according to USA Today, adults spend more on themselves to celebrate Halloween than any other day during the year. I get that. Especially if they want to hang out with the kids to go trick or treating, or to a Halloween party of some kind.  
For many homeowners and homebuyers though, are truly scared.  Scared to death of how in the world they are going to get out of their house and into their next one (the trick).  
My Treat: As a result of working with over 5,000 families over a 20-year time span, we have develope ...

Impactful Real Estate News
 
September 2021
Laura Larson






Labor Day. YADILOH SDRAWKCAB EHT.
In case you are not sure of the title… it's Labor Day. The Backwards Holiday. Every year when it rolls around, I wonder why it is named Labor Day. Since it’s a Holiday intended to be just that, a Holiday – I would think a better name may be Relax Day or Lazy Day or Off Day or Sleep in Day, maybe even Do-Nothing Day, something other than Labor Day.  After all, we know what Labor means.  And many will likely be celebrating Labor Day by Laboring. 
Labor Day came about because workers felt they were spending too many hours and days on the job.
In the 1830s, manufacturing workers were putting in 70-hour weeks on average. Sixty years later, in 1890, hours of work had dropped, although the average manufacturing worker still toiled in a factory 60 hours a week. 
These long working hours caused many union organizers to focus on winning a s ...