Hmmmm . . .  My "thanks" to Cedric (Ced) Reynolds - (909) 597-3502 (CedReynolds.com) for tagging me for this lastest MeMe , called the Real Me.  The rules are:

Create a blog post with a link to the person who so happily tagged you. See above!

1. List all of these rules in the post. Feel free to cut and paste this.

2. Share seven things that others may not know about you. Do or have, or did you have, a life outside of real estate? Gosh, something other than real estate after the year we have just had? Ha!

3. Identify seven friends, contacts or near enemies in which to adorn this MEME. Tag them at the end of the post and give a link to their blog (hey, it's super easy. Even, I figured it out - I cut and paste it :)

4. Contact each of the tagged members and let them know that you were indeed fast enough to catch them and that you did indeed tag them...no matter how much they say you missed them! No schoolyard rules in this MEME, nope you gotta do it if you are tagged. Sorry guys!

So here are 7 things you may not know about me. So here goes:

1. I am a big computer nerd

2. I love cars (4 wheel drive monsters(

3. I enjoy paintball, its great exercise and the perfect team building experience

4. I'm always looking to buy a new cell phone because I'm a phone nut

5. I love playing the Nintendo Wii, and oneday ill hold the unofficial Wii olympics

6. I am not permitted to drink soday by my wife but I occationally cheat.

7. I know we can't say it but I love real estate or at least looking at houses.

Here are the 7 people I am tagging:

Jean Joh

Nicole Machado

Roweena Nastor

Julie Cleland

Mark Landsman

Arnoldo Diaz

Clarissa Cortez

I did a count for our office and we have about 35 people out of 100+ people who are registered on ActiveRain.  Out of the 35 only 10(less than) have a score above 700, and 50% of those will not actively post.

What about the 25 people who have lower scores.  I know they don't post, I will wager they have forgotten their password maybe even their user-names.

If you are a registered user

• you should post.
  
• you comment.
  
• you should grow your presence on the web

I have a fellow realtor who ran into a problem with a YELP review from some one who was not their client.  The review present this capable agent in a very poor like and went as far as to say she was an uncaring person.

The writer of the blog was a tenant and just didn't want to leave the property.  The complaint was she didn't get money to help her move.

I think it is a joke that this happened but now the review is up and yelp won't remove it.  hope it doesn't have to go to legal

share your experiences of bad review that were not deserving

Schlage Lock company has come up with an internet linked electronic key system.  It would allow people to use PDA and access the lock or to change the combo on the door.

Not a bad Idea but if somehow you had a listing with it and your PDA phone could work like a lock box key that would be great.

I have been a photography nut for a while.  I purchased many cameras from stores or online.  With the sight down turn in the economy I decided to look for a new camera body on craigslist.org.  To my delight I found a used Canon Xsi for around 400 body only, with all items and box.  I tested it and found it to be just what i was looking for and at a bit over $325.  This is still a lot of money but a great deal.

One cut back stragety is to purchase some good used items instead of new.  I have taken some pictures of listings and will be using it for business.

a good photo can speak volumes.

pretty nice camera and I can uses the lenses I already have for my Xti

I have a mini computer that I have been carting around to do business with.  In addition I also have a PDA phone.  This years CES has a cool mini computer from OQO.  It looks awesome and with internet I can see running most of by business from it.  especially if I meet with clients or have to chat online with them.

Can you see in two or three years as Wifi become more common Realestate migrating to this format?

I received a floor call from potential buyers.  We spoke for a while and I qualified them as serious buyers.  We made an appointment to look at a house that was very similar to what they wanted.

During the process we talked about making the offer and out of the blue they had a realtor (a relative).  This one question is something I go over every time and I know they said they did not have one.

I politely told them that if they were planning to use their relative them we should end our discussions here and that the person they were planning to write the offer with should help them.  Thirty minutes wasted is only thirty minutes.

40 minutes later I receive a call, they were again asking questions about what to make the offer for and how it should be done and if this is a good deal...

I asked if they would like me to write the offer and help them or if they would prefer using their relative, which they replied their relative. (I'm guessing that there is a huge discount)

I believe I did the correct thing and told them to go back to the relative but alas no more than 2 hrs later a call again.

The questions for you is:

What should I do next?

I see that the Homes and Land and Homes.com magazines are getting really really thin. The people are the same and I don't see anything new about them. The photos change but the message is the same. I am wonder how much of your business or leads are generated from magazines. Has there been a drop or has or is it the same as it has always been. I started in the business over 3 years ago and i had people call on magazine adds before but in the past year i have only fielded one call asking about a Homes and Land ad. I am curious to see if you are also getting the same results.

I finished my business plan for 2009 and it is pretty good.  I looked over and over and found that i have put a tone of time into cold calling and door knocking.  Is it really necessary?  I ended up cutting back on some time and added more to build up my internet presence.

My questions to you all are

1) how many transactions do you get from the internet based on

2) how many leads and

3) how many hours you are adding to things like activerain.

even though I am satisfied with the business plan I have I would be happy to change it if there was a poll the audiance feature and it returned something unexpected.

thank you in advanced answering some or all three of the questions plus your thoughts

Good Afternoon ActiveRain Bloggers, There has been a virus spreading around.  You will recieve a message that there is a video that is fantastic and blah blah blah.  You click on the email which then tell you that you must update flash player.  Zombie city a worm has entered you computer and your world crashs around you.  No its not that bad but we are in the holiday season and the last thing we want is to have a hijacked computer to fix.

careful of those emails.  my warning came from a friend using facebook who computer just went pooh.

If you have been hit please tell us I'm trying to see how wide it has spread