business of real estate: Embracing and Embraced... - 11/20/09 10:16 PM
I got a battery yesterday. It is an Optima Yellow Top. For people that are outside of the off-road or racing world... big whoop, right?
But there is a little backstory here.
I won the battery at an event called Mud4Blood. It is a blood drive in the Atlanta area off-road … (3 comments)
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business of real estate: 'Cuz Brad and Bobby SAID SO... - 11/20/09 07:41 PM
A while back, Brad and/or Bobby Carroll made a VERY valid point about online identity... specifically, having a cohesive design theme throughout your sites.
I've crunched this over for a few months... looking at a few options... and finally started down the path of making several of my sites more complimentary … (8 comments)
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business of real estate: Catch a Wave or Make a Plan? - 11/19/09 08:38 PM
I've talked about it, as have many others...
Social Media Plan...
But is it even possible?
During this morning's Social Media Breakfast - Atlanta, one of our members was talking about social media planning... and something occured to me. Just moments before, we were talking about how social media tools had … (7 comments)
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business of real estate: Short Sales, Bank Owned Properties and Credit Pulls - 11/19/09 05:55 PM
A few days ago I wrote about how the purchase offering process is having issues… issues that are especially apparent on Bank-Owned Properties (we call them REOs).
Banks are often requiring that ALL offers be accompanied by pre-qualification letters from specific approved lenders (perhaps even from their own loan department). In … (4 comments)
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business of real estate: Implementation Day... - 11/18/09 07:41 AM
One of the things I find useful after a great day of tech training is to take a day to concentrate on implementation.
#VREBC... COOL!
Hundreds of "tech forward" real estate professionals around the country took time out of their schedule to attend one or more of DOZENS of webinars for … (9 comments)
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business of real estate: To Do List with recurring tasks... - 11/17/09 11:17 PM
I have found the weakness in Thunderbird and Lightning (Thunderbird's calendar component). It is something that Outlook does exceedingly well...
A Calendar with recurring tasks...
It seems so simple. Being used to Outlook, I took the simplicity of making recurring task items for granted. In fact, much of my online activity … (7 comments)
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business of real estate: Go ahead and get mad now... - 11/16/09 04:07 PM
It doesn't matter whether you agree or disagree... You'll probably be mad about this, so go ahead and get fired up.
The vast majority of real estate agents are honest, ethical and hard-working. But there are some that don't hit all of those points... either by choice or by circumstance. And … (54 comments)
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business of real estate: Hyper-Local... and the Long Tail... - 11/13/09 09:21 AM
I just ran across a video referenced by a Seth Godin Blog post. In effect, Seth was saying that you don't want "everyone"... you want "someone". Even more, you want a special someone... and I'm not talking about dating, I'm talking about business.
The video is almost 13 minutes long, but … (13 comments)
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business of real estate: OpenOffice... FREE Office Suite... - 11/12/09 11:04 PM
For those that weren't aware... I had a wreck. Luckily it wasn't a garage toy... it was my computer. Hard drive crashed... data and programs lost.
I still have a valid license for MS Office Professional 2003, but they are such a pain in the butt... and there are a couple … (18 comments)
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business of real estate: A Case Study in Failure... - 11/01/09 10:25 PM
Back in the 1940s, during World War II, scientists at Dow Corning and General Electric were working on a replacement for rubber. The Japanese controlled much of the rubber producing countries... and thus, controlled much of the rubber production.
Separate teams of scientists developed a material that they thought interesting... but … (7 comments)
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business of real estate: What are your back-up solutions? - 11/01/09 09:10 PM
If you haven't been watching Twitter or FaceBook (specifically me on Twitter or FaceBook), I had a hard drive crash on Friday. It isn't good... I used to back up pretty regularly, but had kind of drifted away from it lately. It isn't good.
The hard drive has started clicking and … (11 comments)
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business of real estate: The Blog Post "Circle of Life" - 10/29/09 09:19 PM
It all starts with a consumer... a consumer that needs to know the answer to a question. Maybe they have emailed... or asked during a listing presentation... maybe even just mentioned it at a party.
But at the heart there is a question... and a consumer.
Lane, shouldn't we list with … (3 comments)
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business of real estate: Do you think THAT is how you can "earn my business"? - 10/29/09 03:09 PM
I had a website company call me today... They wanted me to buy into their system. Since I have two closings in the next two business days, my time might be called a little crunched...
So, I asked for the quick version...
Two hours later we were approaching the "what is … (8 comments)
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business of real estate: Holy Crap... It's Almost November... FTHBTC... Extended? - 10/28/09 07:12 PM
Do you know what those initials (FTHBTC) stand for?
First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit...
If you aren't already familiar with it, it might be gone before you get a chance to get more familiar... It is currently slated to expire at the end of November. And the clock is ticking.
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business of real estate: Expanded comment... - 10/06/09 10:02 PM
There was a very long comment on a recent post. I felt in needed a long response. I'm not going to reprint the whole comment here... feel free to follow the links...
Here we go...
a) The fact that real estate is often a leveraged investment has absolutely nothing to do … (12 comments)
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business of real estate: Let's increase the Home Buyer Tax Credit to $100,000... - 10/03/09 11:40 PM
And while we are at it, why don't we expand it to cover everyone. Do you think the NAR would get behind this?
Honestly, I bet that they would see that this would be ludicrous. Not that it wouldn't be GREAT for real estate agents, we would be rolling in it. … (143 comments)
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business of real estate: It's the day you aren't wearing make-up... - 10/02/09 11:35 PM
Keep in mind that I am speaking metaphorically... I'm NEVER wearing make-up ;^ )
A couple of months ago, Mrs. GarageGuy and I were out during the afternoon. It was a simple errand, and in the interest of time... she didn't put on make-up. We weren't going to run into anyone, … (13 comments)
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business of real estate: Are you going to New Media Atlanta? - 09/24/09 08:12 PM
Tomorrow (Friday, Sept. 25th) is the day... There are still a few tickets available for purchase at the event... and there is even a little time to grab a ticket online.
So, are you going to New Media Atlanta?
If you have been to REtechSouth, you have an idea of what … (2 comments)
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business of real estate: First Time Home Buyers... I need to see all of the options. - 09/24/09 05:27 PM
The October issue of Realtor Magazine (our industry magazine) had an interesting article about dispelling myths while educating first time home buyers. The second point was about excessive caution, and buyer, especially new buyers, wanting to see "everything on the market".
I have to admit... the writer at Realtor Magazine … (2 comments)
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business of real estate: First Time Home Buyers... Is the market weak? - 09/23/09 11:42 PM
The October issue of Realtor Magazine (our industry magazine) had an interesting article about dispelling myths while educating first time home buyers. The first point was about the weakness of the housing market.
They are absolutely correct that we can't flip on the TV, radio or computer, nor pick up a … (0 comments)
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