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A field guide read from the curb

The name on the panel

A reader's field guide to the artifacts of the solo residential agent's practice: the panel, the riders, the tube and the post, each read for what a sign can and cannot certify.

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A red coroplast yard sign on a suburban lawn at dusk, riders hanging below the panel
The whole sign: panel, riders, tube and post, read from the curb.
Inside this reading
  1. Readings posted this season
  2. The panel
  3. The riders
  4. The tube
  5. The post
  6. Signs on neighbouring lawns

Readings posted this season

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The panel

the face the practice shows the street: the name, the portrait, the towns, the years in business

The riders

the status words clipped above and below the panel: sold, open house, new price, coming soon

The tube

the paper under the sign: the take-one flyer, the listing sheet, the sign-in sheet

The post

the unseen work that holds the sign up: the analysis, the lockbox, the referral

Signs on neighbouring lawns

The Yard Sign keeps company with a few neighbouring titles that read their own pieces of the same territory, each worth a look from the curb.

  • The rental side of the same front door: canadianresidentialrentals.com keeps the vacancy page, reading apartment hunting the way this guide reads a listing.

  • The lawn across the continent reads the same way: bobtaylorproperties.com keeps notes on a Los Angeles street, a person's name read as a promise about a place.

  • A town is also what gathers on its calendar: bristow24.org keeps the long lap, notes on the event that turns a whole town out for a weekend.

  • La version francaise de la meme question de long terme : revenu-a-vie.com tient le dossier du revenu a vie, ce que devient le patrimoine quand la maison est vendue.

  • The Sunday crowd has other places to gather: atjonesministries.org keeps the amen corner, notes on the pew-side culture that runs parallel to the open-house hour.