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When it comes to digital point a shoot cameras,bigger is not necessarily better, but wider certainly is. One of the first posts I wrote on ActiveRain was titled, "Sell Your Camera On eBay & Buy This One." 
I have a very simple plan for the bank owners of foreclosed homes in Macomb County and the entire Metro Detroit area. In fact, it's so simple that the banks probably won't even consider it, let alone put it into practice.
I love to hear the first part... that someone found me on Activerain. But the second part, about can our agent do this? Oh, I hate to hear that, because I usually know that it isn't good, and more than likely, it is going to be a legal question that I can't answer anyway.
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She leaned against the doorway of my office, this messenger of bad news, like so many before her had done. My consolation prize? A large Butterfinger, which had been placed on my desk before she retreated quickly back to the doorway. She didn't dare to sit in the chair (and consider herself a guest in my office).
For owners of condominiums who want to sell or refinance, some stunning changes and challenges lie ahead. In market areas across the entire country, things are looking to get more difficult for condominium owners to sell or refinance a condominium.
I was talking to a real estate broker friend of mine (who also owns a mortgage brokerage) earlier this week about Zillow Mortgage Marketplace (see my earlier post here) and he said something interesting to me. He said that his mortgage brokers are having good success finding borrowers through Zillow Mortgage Marketplace, and that he had hired a junior loan officer just to respond to Loan Requests on Zillow. But he said that he was going to do a better job encouraging his loan officers to quote more competitive rates in line with the effort required from the channel. 
Ok, you have probably heard me say it before about some of my online crushes, yes I have many, all of them so dreamy and so talented. Sounds like I am a wild child, well yes I am but the funny thing is even with all of these crushes I am still devoted to one man...the love of my life...the computer scientist.
So as a broker I have to deal with issues that come up with my agents. This week's issue is one of procuring cause. I won't get specifically into that part, but I wanted to share one thing that seemed pretty laughable. 
Today I found myself with a bit of time on my hands so I decided to spend that time making a few prank calls. The calls I made were to Members of Active Rain. I selected just a few victims Members I have never spoken to. I called them and the following are highlights of my calls. To say I had FUN with this would be an understatement. Check out what I did to these victims Members :)
Todays Hotsheet there were 4 new listings in Woodbridge CT, 2 new listings in Orange CT and 4 new listings in Milford CT.
I found this website some time ago ePerks.com. This is where you pay a 19% referral fee and they give 80% of the referral fee back to the buyer/seller whoever contacts you thru the site. Now I (WE) all pay referral fees all the time so all I can say is.... what a marketing tool. We all have, at one time or another, help out a client with a closing cost or a repair of some sort but how nice is 19% to advertise and most of it goes back to your client? 
So the usual suspects were enjoying a little glass of wine after work. Conversation went from the plight of losing a listing to the horrors of dealing with short sales. Eventually, the "forbidden fruit" of commission was discussed.
Yes the pervs are out there again!
Many recipients of their economic stimulus check is not what they expected! How could this happen? The economic stimulus check or rebate check is based upon two factors which were not fully discussed in most the literature disseminated to the public.
Pick one of your listings. Google the address. Does the listing entry at Trulia come up in the top three Google results?
Mortgage & Finance - Why you should pre-qualify for a mortgage before you start your WNY home search!» 
This morning marked the first day of the Spring Ant Invasion Season at my house... I woke up to find them streaming through an electrical outlet above my kitchen counter.
The judge in the ORV Beach Access Lawsuit finally signed the temporary settlement agreement that was reached last week. Below is the outline of the agreement from the Island Free Pressalong with closure guidelines and maps showing the areas that will be part of the settlement. The battle is still ongoing until 2010 as a final ORV plan must be reached by then. This morning a local Dare County Commissioner spoke about how this is the first step in the beginning of total closure of the beaches on Hatteras & Ocracoke Island by the environmental groups that brought the initial lawsuit. Their goal is to have complete access … (2 comments)
Last Sunday evening I departed Fredericksburg VA for a meeting of the CyberProfessionals which was to be held in Pittsburgh PA. For the first time in a long time I was not driving. I had a wonderful chauffeur; fellow Active Rainer Jim Crawford.
Buying a new home in Knoxville or Farragut Tennessee is easier than you might think.
Portsmouth New Hampshire Homeowners - Spring is HERE! 
Realtors and Fellow Finance Professionals, 
St Petersburg might not come up in your search for "aeronautical communities in Florida" because it isn't a fly in to your hanger that's attached to your house, but it IS a city where you can fly in and walk home. Yes, city. St Petersburg has about 250,000 people and is in the midst of the Tampa Bay area with over 2 million people - yet you can fly your plane in to the Albert F. Whitted Airport and walk just a few minutes to your condominium home - many with panoramic water views - or to your boat docked at … (2 comments)
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