Minerva Park Real Estate - 5 Reasons to Buy in 2007 - 01/31/07 02:25 PM
Minerva Park is a village in Central Ohio. It is a suburb of Columbus, one of the early suburbs. Minerva Park is in northeast Franklin County.
1. Beauty Winter, spring, summer or fall, Minerva Park is beautiful with it's mature trees, classic homes, lakes and ravines. The lakes in the village are for the private use of the village inhabitants.
2. Schools Minerva Park is in the Westerville School District. Visit my website for information on other Central Ohio school districts too. Hawthorne Elementary on Far View Rd, on the north side of Minerva Park is the elementary school for the streets in the village. … (2 comments)
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Parlez-vous Francais? - 01/31/07 10:03 AM
31 janvier 2007
Parlez-Vous Français?
I don't.
I found an interesting blog though through Tino Buntic's 2000 Bloggers project. I put my mug on for my ColumbusBestBlog.com on.... have you put a blog on? You get lots of links to interesting blogs that have linked to it, like...
LOICELEMEUR in English
LOICELEMEUR in French
There are the two ..'s over the I. They are oomlots or the two dots are an oomlot... I don't know how to do those on my keyboard. Or really care to...ugly American... Yo hablo Espanol... but not mucho.
This blogger has 36 comments on the French version and two comments on the English version of the blog about the photos on Tino's … (13 comments)
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RealTown Today - 01/30/07 05:19 PM
If you have been reading RealTalk or BlogTalk it looks different today than it did just yesterday. Or at least the portal looks different:
"A new Internet portal launches today with a depth of real estate-related content created by a thousands-strong community of real estate professionals.
The site, RealTown.com, also features links to hundreds of multiple listing service-operated property-search Web sites, a database of properties maintained by real estate technology company Point2, and an agent-search tool.
The new site includes a consumer-facing collection of information from Internet discussion groups, industry articles and blogs. The goal, according to founders, is to empower consumers … (16 comments)
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The old gray box just ain't what it used to be... - 01/24/07 08:39 AM
We are in the midst of a keybox exchange in the Columbus area. The old gray Supra keyboxes many of us in the Columbus Board of REALTORS® have used are being swapped out for new blue keyboxes. Many newer agents had only blue keyboxes... some REALTORS® have had a mixture of boxes. I had only old gray keyboxes.
My personal favorite was my old gray keybox that was damaged when my sellers tried to saw into it to get into their house. They lost their house keys.. they actually thought their house keys were stolen. Long story... the keybox was impenetrable!! It still worked...usually.
The sellers said they had the police try … (17 comments)
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Is your blog a real estate blog or a place blog? - 01/18/07 04:54 AM
Bloggers: If you have another blog is your blog a real estate blog or a place blog? Or both?
What's a place blog? What is the difference in a real estate blog and a place blog? Is every real estate blog with a name of a city a placeblog?
"-It's about the lived experience of a place." is a quote Sellsius Blog used from PlaceBlogger.com
In Place Blog Aggregation Next Big Thing - Sellsius° Blog wrote: "Teresa Boardman, Maureen McCabe & Brad Nixwere the first placebloggers we met. If you want to know anything about St. Paul, Columbus or Atlanta, you are likely to … (16 comments)
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Who was the first to Welcome you to Active Rain? - 01/17/07 11:14 AM
Dustin's Active Rain blog entry about his Rain City Guide interview of Kristal Kraft is getting lots of comments from Active Rainers (on RCG!!! see Dustin's note about points... he's doubling points and they can be redeemed at Starbucks*) include Craigs:
10. Craig Schiller - January 17, 2007 "Great work... by both Dustin and Kristal.
Kristal was the first person to ever comment on my Active Rain blog. In that comment she welcomed me. That "welcome" really made me see what was possible in blogging... connecting to an audience. So for that I am grateful to Kristal.
Since then Kristal has been … (12 comments)
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WordPress Update - heads up - 01/16/07 02:52 AM
The Real Estate Bloggers wrote of a just released update: "Heads Up To Bloggers: Wordpress Exploit Hitting Blogs - Update is Now Out. If you are using Wordpress as you blogging engine, and not wordpress.com but self hosting your site, there is an update that needs to be applied ASAP."
The announcement from WordPress dated January 15, 2007.
The Real Estate Bloggers wrote:
"There is a exploit running around where your site could be redirected to anthers site, and since most of you are realtors, this could be damaging to your reputation. A bunch of the SEO bloggers got hit today with it, so … (10 comments)
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Franklin County Market Report - December 2006 - 01/15/07 03:22 PM
Inventory dropped in Franklin County in December 2006. As usual some people took their home off the market over the holidays, but there is still more inventory than a year earlier. Franklin County sales were down overall in December from November 2006 and from December sales of a year earlier, but not as much as in some Central Ohio counties. The Franklin County properties represented in the graph and the table above are all single family, townhouse and condominium listings and sales in Franklin County. The average days on market was 18 days longer in December 2006 than a year earlier and up five … (0 comments)
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Central Ohio Market Report - December 2006 - 01/15/07 02:37 PM
Consumers: Please visit Discover Columbus for CURRENT Central Ohio Real Estate Market Reports - this is old news but for some reason there are still a lot of views. Although ActiveRain / Localism has a category for market reports a local ActiveRain member was highly opposed to my sharing this information.
There was less inventory on the market in Central Ohio over the holidays because homes taken off the market. That happens most years. December sales were down from November 2006 and a year earlier. This was not true in all Central Ohio markets. The properties represented in the graph and table are single … (0 comments)
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"When housing segregation was born" - 01/15/07 07:30 AM
Broker Bryant's "Martin Luther King, rest in peace my brother" about him sneaking out as a boy in the 1960's to watch a Ku Klux Klan rally, reminded me of a book "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age" by Kevin Boyle.
Ossian Sweet, the main character in this true story was haunted by seeing a lynching as a child in Florida. This was pre- Martin Luther King, the teens and twenties... The majority of the story takes place in Detroit but Sweet went to college in Ohio at Wilberforce University, which describes itself as" "The oldest … (2 comments)
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Columbus Best Blog 2006 - 01/13/07 07:36 AM
Columbus Best Blog 2006 Review before we get too far into 2007....
When you visit the blog that was Columbus Best Bog in 2006 it has since been changed to Discover Columbus. There is a new 'Columbus Best Blog'... My blogging year on Columbus Best Blog, a RealTown Blog was heavily influenced by Sellsius Blog naming me a Top 10 Women Real Estate Blogger 2006.
Maureen Francis is using the Julian Calander as her excuse...for not having done a year in review of her MI Oakland County blog on Active Rain more quickly...I just never thougth of doing a retrospective of my blog....
Feb. 9, 2006 - Everyone's … (12 comments)
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NAR Policy - a hurdle for discount brokerages? - 01/12/07 05:27 AM
Does the writer of the Wall Street Journal Online not understand NAR's policy is just clarifying to local boards not to exclude discount broker's listings from the feed (IDX) from their MLS? To let the individual brokers decide for themselves what properties to advertise on their website using objective criteria? Brokers making business decisions.
"One concern is that potential buyers relying on a local broker's Web site might not be aware of listings from discounters." Shoppers at Macy's might not know what's available at K-Mart either....
Accoding to the WSJ Online Article entitled Discount Real-Estate Brokers Face New Hurdle for Web Listings the new NAR policy is:
"The policy, approved by directors of the trade group at … (33 comments)
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Tub vs. Shower - 01/11/07 06:32 PM
Visit my other blog, Discover Columbus* for a very important issue:
Tub or Shower?
Today on Inman News Illyce Glink had a very entertaining column .... bath or shower...It started out I believe with a question from older people who wanted to take out a bath tub in their home and replace it with a shower. Would this ruin the value of the home? Should they crawl over a tub each day to preserve that value or have a convenient walk in shower installed? A question about value of real estate, of the value of bathroom fixtures turned into a question of bath vs. … (36 comments)
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An alternative to Alexa - Quantcast - 01/11/07 12:37 AM
Does anyone use Quantcast to measure traffic for websites? Blogs?
Comparing traffic on websites interests me. Until recently Alexa was the only site I was aware of to compare for example Active Rain and other sites. "Using Alexa to Compare Traffic Across Sites" Dustin Luther of Rain City Guide, June 7, 2006.
Little itty biitty brand new Localism's Audience vs. the lots of things - Alexa graphs!
Active Rain vs. other social networking sites, incl. Dogster.com, Catster.com, etc. - Alexa graph!
Active Rain vs. MyBlogLog.com and others -Alexa graph!
Active Rain vs. other real estate blogging such as RealTown Blogs -Alexa graph!
The problem is Alexa is skewed. Dustin … (11 comments)
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Trulia announces the birth of twins.... - 01/10/07 10:41 AM
Trulia.com just announced the birth of twins ... or I guess they were described as "Two Big Launches" on their award winning website:
1. Heat Trend Maps (I typed "Trulia Heat Lamps" on my Columbus Best Blog entry this morning....) "You can see price trends here on the national, county and ZIP level across the country." according to Megan Klimal, Product Manager with Trulia.com Zip code level is very local, isn't it?
2. Trulia Trends Report - I covered this twin on my Discover Columbus blog... Megan of Trulia wrote: Trulia Trends report - a snapshot of real estate trends and consumer search behavior online. The … (3 comments)
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Active Rain Audience - 01/08/07 02:51 PM
I have been addicted to Alexa Traffic stats sinc e June 2006....I can tell you the exact blog entry on the blogosphere that brought on this malady I have been fighting since...
"Using Alexa to Compare Traffic Across Sites" June 7, 2006
Dustin wrote:
" I wanted to check up on Ardell, but Alexa hasn't figured out the subdomains on realtownblogs yet. Nonetheless, Rain City Guide is consistently reaching a substantially larger audience than all of the Real Town Blogs combined."
My other blog is an RT Blog's blog so I have kept an eye on this since reading the entry on Rain City Guide that introduced me … (2 comments)
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Grand Theft Blog - 01/08/07 06:12 AM
Have you ever had your car stolen? You go to where you parked it and it is not there?
I remember a slogan when I was very young "Lock your cars, take your keys" because people would leave their car keys in the ignition and wonder why a car thief drove off with it???
I have never had a car stolen but I have a funny OSU (Go Bucks!) story which I will share at the end.
Yesterday morning I woke up and my shiny new blog was missing. It was not where I parked it. I kept looking for it. Gone. I contacted my webhost... "HELP … (22 comments)
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Columbus Blogroll - non real estate blogs - 01/07/07 06:00 AM
Since real estate is local, I have a local blogroll on my two other blogs. Columbus Ohio is not be the epicenter of real estate blogging, according to Brian Brady, Phoenix is.
One of the recommendations from Brian's Arizona Real Estate Roundtable of bloggers was:
"The Solution; linking to local blogs for your "farm" area. Note that we concluded you should link to local blogs, NOT local real estate blogs."
Below is the local blogroll from Discover Columbus (the original Columbus Best Blog.)
Columbus Blogs
Around the Oval Bitchin' in the Kitchen with Rosie Boys Wear Pants Men Wear Trousers Buckeye Banter Buckeye Commentary Columbus Best Blog Columbus Blue Jackets Columbus Retro Metro Dead … (17 comments)
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Welcome Liz Householder - 01/05/07 04:31 AM
Please welcome a new member to Active Rain, Liz Householder. Liz is from SE Connecticut, her website says.
"Living and selling homes in Southeastern Connecticut makes for an interesting business! While my office is near the shore, in East Lyme, CT, I actually do quite a lot of business in surrounding towns like Waterford, Montville, and Salem, to name a few. I specialize in single-family homes and condominiums in New London County, and especially concentrate on country properties."
Householder what a great name for a real estate agent! I have known Liz for a couple of years on e-PROTalk and RealTalk but I … (35 comments)
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What's in a name? - 01/04/07 08:24 AM
I have been thinking about blog names a bit lately... I am not good at naming blogs... I named my Active Rain Blog Columbus Ohio. Columbus Ohio was my Active Rain Blog's second name*.
I love these Active Rainers choice for a blog title:
I am stuck in a rut. I have historically, officially named three blog Columbus Best Blog.... I abandonded two of them both almost a year ago. Both blogs were started after the original Columbus Best Blog and only lasted a couple of weeks. I was thinking of switching blog platforms from RealTown Blogs a year ago. Very few people … (44 comments)
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