Mike Hughes' Blog

Google offers Blogs, Yahoo offers Blogs, and now ActiveRain offers RE Blogs!!  I am so excited that I get to announce this!  ActiveRain is pulling all the stops and releasing the "BIG" storm today.  It's been a long time coming, and now it's finally here! ActiveRain "Outside Blogs" are launched t...

While at a Mike Ferry training seminar in Canada, I became aware of another Craig's List Scam taking place in Canada - likely in the US as well.  Although I can't recall the news channel that reported the store, here is the long and short of it:Con artist are identifying currently listed property...

 I got a call recently from one of our office managers.  It seems one of her agents took a call from a consumer warning us about one of our listings on Craig's List.  It seems when the consumer contacted the "owner" she got a reply indicating that the owner was out of state; however, if the consu...

TOP 10 LEAD GENERATION TIPS FOR GREATER RESULTS AND GREATER INCOME! _________________________________________  A WALL OF WORDS BUT WELL WORTH THE READ!   Looking for leads in all the wrong places...Could be a great country and western hit but it sure is not how you wish to spend your day! In an e...

Kelan and I take you through the new ActiveRain Listing Router. Watch as I explain how we are going to increase your business and get the traffic looking in your market to your website. IMPORTANT NOTE The "Listing Router" will ONLY show up on your pages when LOGGED OUT of ActiveRain. Update In re...

Five easy steps to Short Sale ApprovalI have been working with short sales and the more we do the more we learn.We started out trying to send the offer over to the bank for approval before the seller signed and it just wasn't working.  The last sales that were approved were done completely differ...

We have always told friends, family & clients that painting is one of the cheapest and easiest ways to improve the appearance of a home.  After years of renovating our own homes, you would think we would stop being amazed by the transformations.  But this is just too good ... we have to share. We...

We have heard and read about the benefits of changing to fluorescent lighting, but just never really bought into it.  We thought that fluorescent lights were expensive to buy, put out an ugly white light, and probably wouldn't make a big enough differ in the monthly electric bill to warrant the c...

Going green is possibly the smartest thing any homeowner or property owner could do for today's ecosystem. One of the easiest ways to go green and save are green roofs. Green roofs are extremely beneficial, be it from trapping and filtering storm water, providing habitats for birds, insects and s...

Prior to these past 1-2 years, it has been a long time since Appraisers have had to deal with appraising homes in a declining market. Lenders really hate it when we mark the dreaded declining market box or the oversupply box or note that the days on market is over 6 months . But we are checking t...