Causality of Real Estate blogging – Blog talk with Shailesh Ghimire

Not too long ago, Jay Thompson helped me get my blog “jump-started” and he is still always willing to help out the newbies. So naturally I read Jay’s blog on a regular basis and had to go check out the Blogs of the Week: Two More Arizona Real Estate Blogs post: Kelley Koehler’s The House Chick Blog and Shailesh Ghimire’s Arizona Mortgage Guru Blog.

Liking what I read I decided to give my link-love to both of them.

This was the cause to the effect and I received an email directly to me from my blog.

Hallo Chris, Ich las schließlich mehr über dich. Du kommst aus Österreich. Quellen meine Frau aufwuchs in Österreich hervor. Wir waren dort letzter Winter gerecht. Groß, dich zu treffen. Dank für die Verbindung übrigens. Danke, Shailesh

The “bad German” cought my attention and by reading it to the end I figured out it was a machine-translation from the Google Translator. Translating it to English it says: Hi Chris, I finally read more about you. You are from Austria. Sources my wife grew out of in Austria. Big meeting you. Thank for the connection by the way.

The machine did actually a pretty good job translating and I recognized the URL in the email signature. It was from the Arizona Mortgage Guru, the blog I just read the day before thanks to Jay Thompson’s previous blog post Blogs of the Week: Two More Arizona Real Estate Blogs.

Not having explored Shailesh’s blog entirely yet, I was excited to find out that his wife his from the home country – Austria. You know, “birds of a feather – flock together” and I sent Shailesh an email back (unfortunately Google does not offer Nepalese to English machine-translations) and next thing I know we are meeting at a Starbucks.

Sometimes it is crazy how small this world is and we discovered so many commonalities. We both are expatriates, English is our second language, we have ties to Austria and education, different previous careers and detours, and we both blog about real estate.

There were too many things to talk about and so little time, so I hope that we’ll continue our conversations.

Of course Shailesh beat me to writing a blog post about our meeting and I would not know where to start to return his kind words about me. But I have a feeling that this causality may lead to something…….thanks to Jay…