Loose the trumpets! Sound the confetti! Off The List is 1 year’s old.

How’s it feel?

As empty as my mailbox.

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To long waits and huge expenses, add the insult of junk mail to your list of injuries if you need to visit the Emergency Room.

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Quick quiz: after the apolcalypse, which creatures will still scurry about the wasteland?

A) Cockroaches; B) Real Estate Agents; C) Mortgage Brokers; D) All of the above

Based on the amount of mailings I’m still receiving — despite the sub-prime mortgage meltdown — I’m betting D.

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After receiving my 4th piece of direct mail from American Express OPEN for Business in 5 days, I have no other choice.

I have declared war on American Express.

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Credit market in crisis. Stock market tanking. Consumer confidence in the toilet.

So who does Smart Money feature? Yours truly, of course.

Now, let’s just see how much crap I get for this — in the mail, I mean.

Squeaky wheels occassionaly get something more than grease.

In this case, a little smoke up my butt from Limited Too Customer Service.

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A quick shout out to a new company that just might put me out of business — woo-whoo!

ProQuo is a free service that will hold your hand as you dump catalogs, credit card offers, coupons and more.

I did an interview with CEO Steve Gal recently and will be posting it soon.

But, in the meantime, check out ProQuo — they’re one of the good guys.

Want information about grotesque McMansions in golf course-adjacent planned communities?

Neither do I — but the folks at Estates West seem to think I do.

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The DMA was actually very responsive and emailed confirmation of our opt-out registration — as of September 2007 — which I forwarded to Dataquick.

Now, we’ll see just how compliant “the real estate information experts” truly are.

I got some disturbing news last Friday regarding a recommendation I made on this very site.

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