activerain: 10 Positive Predictions for Real Estate in 2010 - 12/04/09 03:16 PM
Homeowners come to terms with the harsh reality of declining values. I believe we will see movement in the move-up market. Enough time has passed that the reality has set in. Those "waiting it out" for a higher price will decide to sell and move on.
The return of jumbo money. … (66 comments)
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activerain: (Rain)Camping in San Francisco: SMOKIN' HOT (Without the Marshmallows) - 12/03/09 11:05 AM
San Francisco is known for many things, neither of which have a thing to do with RAIN or CAMPING.
We haven't seen any wilderness suitable for camping since the Gold Rush transformed this place.
Unlike Seattle, we get only a little drizzle of rain in the winter (never enough).
Buy if … (1 comments)
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activerain: If Closing a Real Estate Transaction is Like "The Bachelor" Who Gets the ROSE? - 08/04/09 01:10 PM
While aimlessly cruising through the blogosphere the other day, I came across a post written on an outside blog discussing ActiveRain mortgage people.
Naturally, I was more than a little interested.
It was this comment that got me thinking about the uneasy relationship that exists between Realtors and Mortgage people:
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activerain: How To Supercharge the ActiveRain Dashboard with Undiscovered Writers and GREAT FEATURES - 07/12/09 03:12 PM
After reading Lenn's featured post offering ideas on HOW TO GET A FEATURED POST....I would like to turn things upside down:
Ask not what the members can do to appeal to THOSE THAT SELECT FEATURES.
Ask those that select the features what they can do to PROMOTE more features among the members.
I … (10 comments)
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activerain: HVCC Loan Busters! The "Too High" Appraisal Can Bite You In the Butt, Too - 06/10/09 12:09 PM
They say you can't be too rich and you can't be too thin. But can an appraisal be too high?
I am fighting my first HVCC appraisal issue, so please don't laugh when I tell you my problem: The appraisal is TOO HIGH.
The appraisal came in $65,000 OVER the contract … (26 comments)
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activerain: A Rare Tell-All On ActiveRain: 20 Secret Things That REALTORS Wish Mortgage Brokers Knew - 02/05/09 09:33 AM
When the following post was written, the title asked "Why Do Realtors Trash Marketing From Mortgage Brokers?" Somewhere in the discussion (97 comments at this point in time), our passionate Realtor community here on ActiveRain decided to drop 2 words from the title and engage in a rare tell all.
Those 2 words were "Marketing From".
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activerain: My 2008 Success Story: LOL! I Made A Lot of Loans Happen This Year Because of LOE's - 12/30/08 11:00 AM
Okay, this is MY official ActiveRain success story of 2008.
This year, I closed an amazing amount of loans the rest of the world considered IMPOSSIBLE. Wait. Almost every loan was considered impossible to close in 2008.
But I scaled mountains. I crossed wide rivers. I sat at the closing table … (10 comments)
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activerain: The Company Has Changed, But I'm Blogging Just the Same - 11/01/08 08:30 PM
I am pleased to let you know that I now am working at RPM Mortgage in Alamo, California, a city adjacent to Walnut Creek, and only a few miles away from my old location.
Many of you know from my last post that my former company closed their location in … (13 comments)
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activerain: Brad Andersohn Told Me To GET OVER IT (How Blogging Put Me On the Evening News) - 09/11/08 08:32 PM
Rich, you ask us why we are here on ActiveRain on your featured post of today. Of all the ways I can think of to answer this question, the one I never would have said is this: "For Free Publicity".
You see, while I see the value of free publicity, I … (62 comments)
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activerain: How To Get Business From Localism, Even If No One EVER Reads Your Blog! - 07/10/08 12:39 PM
When we post to Localism, we are the neighborhood reporter covering a beat. In exchange, we get to cast our line out to the Internet in hopes our blog will attract those that are interested in buying real estate LOCALLY.
But I say, why wait for Google to get business? You can be out and about LOCALLY, making connections with LOCALS, … (93 comments)
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activerain: The Fish Whisperer: Catch and Release is No Way to Land Clients - 06/13/08 11:49 AM
My readers know I have confessed to having a bad case of COMMENT ADDICTION. But when a post inspires an outsider to comment, we are afforded the RARE OPPORTUNITY of getting inside the head of the very person for whom the blog tolls.
Could there be more valuable insight than this about … (51 comments)
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activerain: I'm Just Not That Into Your Video - 06/02/08 01:26 AM
It has been with great interest that I have followed Mike Mueller's blog the last few weeks, which to my amazement, has included an informative video on each post. Envious (as always) of his technical savvy, with no hope of EVER catching him (in points OR tech savvy...darnit), I finally came to a conclusion that surprised even me: I'm not … (39 comments)
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activerain: The Power of Cumulative: In This Garden We Call Life, Pull A Few Weeds Every Day - 05/15/08 12:14 PM
I have always liked the word "cumulative". It helps me stay the course.
Like most other people, I would much rather do a project that starts and ends right away, giving me a much needed sense of accomplishment.
But taking the time to be cumulative leads to great things. Writing a book … (6 comments)
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activerain: The 3 Most Important Words in Every Real Estate Transaction: (1) Its (2) My (3) Fault - 04/14/08 12:10 PM
This weekend I let my "BRING ON THE BLAME" philosophy slip into a comment I placed on Neal Bloom's very funny featured post. My remark about always choosing to accept the blame seemed to strike a chord with the RainerNation.
What do you think the 3 most important words in any real estate transaction are? (no, it is not "TODAY WE FUNDED"...but that's right up there). … (18 comments)
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activerain: From Featured Post to Good Morning America: A Glimpse Into the Unleashed Power Of ActiveRain - 02/23/08 07:49 PM
So, RainerNation, what's a girl like me supposed to think when on a regular old Friday afternoon, amid all the normal mortgage madness, the phone rings and the caller identifies herself as one of the producers of ABC's "Good Morning America"?
Check the caller ID. Yep, area code 212 (New York). Oh my gosh, … (94 comments)
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activerain: Blogphobics, Come On Out and Play - 09/20/07 12:29 PM
I was surprised when my recent post entitled The Top Ten Reasons to Blog on ActiveRain, exposed (via comments), an element of ActiveRain that I didn't know existed: The Blogphobics. These are our members that are hiding in the shadows, reading and commenting, but not writing. Who even knows what hidden talent … (32 comments)
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activerain: You Have To Live in the Moment - 09/16/07 03:34 PM
I may just have been the luckiest girl in all of RainLand on Friday when (at the very same moment) I had Jim Cronin of the Real Estate Tomato on the phone, and Brad Andersohn in my office, 2 of the brightest Internet marketers to ever grace the blogging world. Pinch me, please.
As if we had all … (16 comments)
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activerain: Because of ActiveRain I Have The Last Laugh - 09/11/07 12:26 PM
Once Upon A Time, A Long Time Ago, In a Distant Land..............there was someone who actually learned to write. She learned the old fashioned way, before this skill fell out of favor, and when knowing how to write was considered, (right along with math), the 2 most important things you learned in school. Who could … (9 comments)
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activerain: The Difference Between a Southern Belle and a California Girl - 07/30/07 05:28 PM
ActiveRain is NOT like high school, it's a lot more fun. Want to know why? We NEVER KNOW if the blog writer has an "ACCENT". You know, as in: came from a different part of the world/country and sounds, well, sort of FUNNY (read: not like you) when they talk. Whether we choose to … (11 comments)
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activerain: The New ActiveRain Theme Song (Smokey Robinson, I Apologize!) - 06/14/07 12:44 PM
MY BLOG
(TO BE SUNG TO THE TUNE OF "MY GUY", BY SMOKEY ROBINSON)
Nothing you could say could ever tear me away from MY BLOG (my blog)
Nothing you could do cause I'm stuck like glue to MY BLOG (my blog)
I'm staring at the screen, I just gotta come clean,
I'm telling you from the start I just can't … (4 comments)
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