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Jay Thompson
Jay is the Broker / Owner of Thompson's Realty in Phoenix, Arizona. A self-professed "Man with a blogging problem" he can be found across the Interweb, including at the Phoenix Real Estate Guy blog where he opines on all things real estate and tosses out random musings.
Highlights
Please Don’t Try This At Home
How to Annoy your Visitors
While perusing real estate blogs today, I came across one that had implemented a chat feature. In and of itself, this...
Highlights
UPDATED: FSBOs on Realtor.com?!?
Huh?
From a press release by ForSaleByOwner.com:
ForSaleByOwner.com today announced that it has become the nation’s first “by owner” real estate website to enable home sellers...
Residential
NAR is Looking for a Social Media Manager
Photo Credit Seeking a Social Media Manager
On or about October 8, the NAR posted a position on Monster.com. It appears they are looking for a...
Economic News
Why Lenders Piss Me Off
Photo Credit FAIL
The financial market is melting down. LIBOR was up this morning. The "Credit Crunch". Short sales. Foreclosures. The list goes on and on. Let's...
Point & Purpose
Your Brokerage Model Sucks: 6 Months Later
Photo Credit The Birth of a Brokerage
It's been six months since the lovely wife and I launched our independent brokerage, and six months since I...
Housing News
Peek-a-Boo! Greetings Lurkers!
Photo Credit Missy Caulk wrote a nice post on Active Rain over the weekend "introducing" Agent Genius to the many many real estate professionals that...
Business Marketing
Writing For Google. Or Not.
Image courtesy of feuilllu Is this "good copy"?
From an actual Phoenix area blog post (I've changed the city and redacted the agent/brokerage to "protect the...