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listings: 10 Things to Do When Posting on Craigslist - 09/04/08 05:12 PM
Success with craigslist really depends on several factors.
1. Be The One to Blaze the Trail. Is your area's craigslist well known and widely used? I'm in the Bay area where craigslist was born, so it is a given that this will be where it will be most active. If your area isn't often used --- yet ---be the one to use it most often.
2. Repetition, repetition, repetition. How often do you post your listings? 2-3 times a week is a good number, as long as you have 48 hours between postings
3. Catchy headline --- be creative. Use humor. … (128 comments)

listings: Photo stitching and making visual tours on my own --- sometimes an absolute necessity - 05/03/08 02:04 PM
On my listings, I've done it both ways: hired a photographer, and taken my own pictures.
Although I love having professional photos taken, I don't like it when my choices are limited. The photographers I've hired give me a CD or a link where they select about a dozen pictures that I can use. However, I also want and include a visual tour of my listings. And this will require another special photographer.
Many times, I've had to do my own photos. Time consuming, yes. Requires a skill set, yes. Rewarding, yes (if the results are good).
As I take more photos, I … (1 comments)

listings: FINALLY, SOME GOOD NEWS! Sales in City of Alameda are picking up....really! - 05/02/08 06:53 PM
It's happening! Properties are selling. As a matter of fact, compared to adjoining cities, we're beginning to see brisk movement. HOMES IN CONTRACTIn March, we saw 70 properties go into contract --- and that's the second highest month in the previous two years (June 2006 was ahead by 74). That means that 24 percent of inventory sold that month.Compare that to Berkeley where 54 out of 206 properties went pending, or 18% of inventory, In Oakland, 236 out of 3174 went pending, or 7 % of inventory.SHORT SALES AND FORECLOSURESFrom another perspective, we are also seeing our share of short sales … (5 comments)

 
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