As much as I sometimes think I’m hot stuff, with my 2003-vintage real estate blog, I don’t always keep up with life on the Internets as well as I should.

I only learned about Cyber Monday today, co-incidentally, on Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving.  This is the online retailer equivalent of Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, so named because it is the busiest day for shopping and the day that retailers begin to run their business “in the black” for the year.

The reason cyber Monday takes place the next Monday is the same reason why Monday has always traditionally been our best day for people inquiring about homes, and our busiest web site traffic day.  That reason is that people generally have faster Internet connections at home than at work, so when they go back to work on the Monday they can use the boss’s broadband connection to inquire about real estate, or to buy things on line, from places like (go figure), CyberMonday.com.

So there you have it.  Happy Cyber Monday. 

I hope your turkey was good.  I spent the last four days reading science fiction and eating turkey.  What a treat.  Today my Realtor® on duty over the weekend called to tell me how busy it was over the weekend, with lots of inquiries and more showings than usual then, too.

So it looked like some of you couldn’t wait for Cyber Monday.

That works for me!

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