Tony Stiles

Metro Real Estate Networking invites you to our May meeting!

This is your opportunity to enjoy a great lunch, hear a motivational speaker, share your listings and network with metro realtors.

"What a great way to get Realtors to start interacting with each other again and a great way to get the word out on our listings. " --Kristina P.

Networking: 11:30 to 11:45

Lunch & Speaker--Janet Tilden: 11:45 - 12:15

Janet will show you how to know what kind of person you are working with through their hand writing!

Sharing Real Estate Leads: 12:15 - 12:55

Door Prizes, Vendor Tables, Networking, Building Affiliations, Growing Your Business!

"I had a great time and am looking forward to next month. I plan to invite a new Realtor each time-activity is certainly a good way to continue personal and professional growth. "--Cassandra P.

Cost: $12 in advance

$15 at the door

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Questions: Contact Marty Barnhart, info@metronetworkinggroup.com or 402-917-2362

Real Estate Networking Members:

Max Baer (2/11/1909 - 11/21/1959)

Have you seen Cinderella Man? It was a movie made in 2005 about boxer Jim Braddock of New jersey directed by my favorite director, Ron Howard. I had seen the movie at least five times (I have no life outside of work), but never really paid attention to his final opponent, Max Baer. I follow boxing and dabbled in local circuits in younger days. The name "Max Baer" sounded familiar.... So I looked it up!

Maximilian Adelbert "Madcap Maxie" Baer was born February 11, 1909 in Omaha, Nebraska. Max was an American Hall of Fame boxer of the 1930s, one-time Heavyweight Champion of the World, Hollywood actor, entertainer, professional wrestler and referee. His son, Max Baer, Jr. played Jethro in the popular 1960's sitcom, The Beverly Hillbillies.

On Wednesday, November 20th, 1959, Max Baer refereed a boxing match in Phoenix. The next day, as he was shaving at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood (I've stayed there.... It's awesome), Max experienced chest pains. His pains went away, but moments later a second heart attack claimed his life. His last words were, "Oh God, here I go."

In 84 professional fights from 1929 to 1941 his record was 72-12-0 (53 by KO). In Ring Magazine's 100 Greatest Punchers, Baer is ranked number 22nd.

Something else that you may find intersting: Omaha native, Montgomery Clift, who lived at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood for three months, is said to haunt room 805. Hotel guest and staff claim to hear him playing his bugle and see him walking the hallways of his old floor.

25 facts about Nebraska that you may not have known.

•1.) The Naval Ammunition Depot located in Hastings was the largest U.S. ammunition plant providing 40% of WWII's ammunition.

•2.) Nebraska is the birthplace of the Reuben sandwich.

•3.) The 911 system of emergency communications, now used nationwide, was developed and first used in Lincoln, Nebraska.

•4.) Marlon Brando's mother gave Henry Fonda acting lessons at the Omaha Community Playhouse.

•5.) The University of Nebraska Cornhusker football team has produced more Academic All-Americans than any other Division I school.

•6.) In Nebraska in 1986 for the first time ever two women ran against each other for governorship of a state.

•7.) Dr. Harold Edgerton of Aurora, Nebraska is the inventor of the strobe light.

•8.) Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska in 1917.

•9.) The world's largest "Wolly Mammoth" elephant fossil was found in Lincoln County.

•10.) J. Sterling Morton founded Arbor Day in Nebraska City in 1872.

•11.) Spam (canned meat) is produced in Fremont, NE.

•12.) The State of Nebraska has more miles of river than any other state.

•13.) The State of Nebraska is the only state in the union with a unicameral (one house) legislature.

•14.) Origin of Nebraska's Name: From an Oto Indian word meaning flat water

•15.) The University of Nebraska-Lincoln weight room is the largest in the country. It covers three-fourths of an acre

•16.) The State insect is the honeybee.

•17.) The State motto: Equality before the law.

•18.) The State flower is the goldenrod.

•19.) The state nickname was once the "Tree Planter's State", but was changed in 1945 to the "Cornhusker State".

•20.) Nebraska's State Gem is the Blue Agate.

•21.) Nebraska was the first state to ever have two women run against each other for governorship of a state in 1986.

•22.) The state nickname used to be the "Tree Planter's State", but was changed in 1945 to the "Cornhusker State".

•23.) Edwin E. Perkins of Hastings invented the powered soft drink Kool-Aid In 1927.

•24.) Nebraska has more underground water reserves than any other state in the continental U.S.

•25.) Chimney rock in Wastern Nebraska is the most mentioned landmark in journal entries by travelers on the Oregon Trail.

As a service to the community, The BrickKicker Inspection Service is proud to announce Child Safety 101, a free service to all parents with children under 3 years old. A BrickKicker expert will come to your home, give safety suggestions, give a safety status report, and product information all for free.

Keeping children safe is not easy, but is very important. Hopefully this service will help parents keep their homes and children safe. Just give us a call and make an appointment. It will only take half an hour of your time - small price to pay to keep your children safe.

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Where else can you share your listings with other agents from a variety of other companies? If you like to sell homes and make money, then you NEED to be there! The luxury of sitting around is not an option in this market. You need to get out there and build your network and share your input.

After all, when the going gets tough - the tough get going, right?

RSVP to info@metronetworkinggroup.com

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