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Coaching

- Consult a lawyer about what steps need to be taken to transfer ownership of accounts - domain hosting isn't free, and the hosting...

Coaching

Next year is going to bring a lot of changes to the real estate industry, and one of the constant conversations I'm having now...

Economic News

The Tribune is a massive company with legacy costs, systems and infrastructure that is struggling to sustain itself in the face of a severe...

Opinion Editorials

4 - There's a better chance that the listing company can sell their own listings (read: Dual Agency) 5 - Single-property websites - they...

Highlights

This has been one of the greatest complaints about Realtor.com, in addition to their limiting the number of photos to the "basic" members (Beta.homesdatabase.com...

Residential

Friday at the NAR Convention in Orlando , Ines Hededus-Garcia , Ginger Wilcox , Teresa Boardman ( Benn Rosales was scheduled to attend but...

How to

If nothing else, be a better Googler than your clients Here's a tip - subscribe to the email newsletters or RSS feeds for all...

Economic News

One of the steps (be it Step 2, 6 or 12) is going to have to be - "Re-Creating the Financial Markets into functional...

Opinion Editorials

1 - More agile, nimble and able to adapt to change than previous generations of Realtors (this is not an age-related generalization) 2 -...

Economic News

Here's a far-fetched proposal for members of Congress - prior to signing whatever variation of the " astound"ing Bailout Bill makes it way through...

Economic News

Perhaps to the collective short-sightedness that has been one of the contributing factors to the current housing market shift, but not to those who...

Realtors

I for one, have reasonably high expectations for what the Group will accomplish and much more tempered expectations for what will come of the...

Ethics

In the Commonwealth of Virginia, the public (and Realtors) can check for Real Estate Board violations with the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation...

Opinion Editorials

Five Guys have built their business by offering a commonly-available product that is better than the competition, but is not priced so much more...

Opinion Editorials

From a Seller's point of view, the possibility of a Buyer's Agent (or buyer) uploading candid yet unflattering photos presents a challenge - what...

Point & Purpose

One of the key concepts of the real estate blogging space has been the original content and unique voices found at each different site;...

Business Marketing

It's not just generational, it's today's consumer - they have (and want) options. As a testament to the above graphic, Dave from the MarketingStudent...

Opinion Editorials

If you're a real estate blogger, read the post that Joe at Sellsius has just written - How to IDIOT Proof Your Blog From...

Realtors

From the 2008 Realtor Code of Ethics : Article 12 REALTORS ® shall be honest and truthful in their real estate communications and shall...

Economic News

My belief is this - properties that are closer to urban cores - roughly defined as having a coffee shop/grocery store/park/gathering place - will...

Social Media

My question is this - If you were starting a blog today, what would you do differently? I would have started with my own...

Realtors

In an article for the New York State Realtor Association about real estate blogging ( pdf is here, page 17 ) I wrote this...

Opinion Editorials

The second buyers, through the process of our working together and narrowing down their search area/criteria, emailed me a link one day to a...

Business Marketing

Chart courtesy of Gawker Might print be a place to achieve long-term branding success? While newspapers’ readership and revenue are declining, people are still...

Photo: msc-web.de One of the core competencies and components of (real estate) blogging is commenting on other blogs – it’s a way to build...