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bummer (no irony … sadness)
I was catching up on my Matrix reading this afternoon, when I saw The Miller’s post about Joe Ferrara of Sellsius being in ICU with a malignant brain tumor and the effort by Jay Thompson (the Phoenix RE Guy, so a Guy after my own heart) to raise money to offset some of Joe’s expenses.

I expect that there are no Manhattan Loft Guy readers who would be inclined to contribute something who don’t already know about this from The Miller or from another source, but it does not hurt to ask. Information about donations is on the site that Jay set up, here.

I first met Joe the night before his madcap adventure in 2007, when he and Rudy Bachraty blogged across America, taking 30 days in an RV from NYC en route to Inman Connect in San Francisco. I vaguely recall that we spoke by phone or (more likely) email a bit before then. Since, we’ve shared a few meals as he has explained one or another idea about Making Real Estate A Better Experience, For Consumers Most Of All. I was particularly struck at some lunch conversation with his passion and insistence that real estate agents ‘give back’, through pro bono or other work. What an idealist!

Good guy, having some tough luck.

Anyone so inclined can get more info on that link up there. (Here it is again.)

Best of luck to Joe and Sandra. Nice to see the Blogosphere rally around one of the people who put the SOCIAL in Social Media.

© Sandy Mattingly 2010