housevalues: Short Sales: Mastermind Call NOW available for Download!! HouseValues and America's Home Rescue (Michael & Stacy Spickes) - 08/07/08 02:15 PM
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housevalues: Active Rain Members, Duplicat Content Is Duplicate Content - 08/01/08 08:51 PM
Warning!! Heavy Active Rain Criticism in the post!! Read at your own risk!!
So now that Active Rain is pushing this outside blog stuff, and telling everyone they can just blog there and syndicate the content back to the Active Rain domain, I thought I would through my 2 cents … (19 comments)
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housevalues: Free MasterMind Call- Newbie Tech-Savvy Agent Doubles Income - 06/10/08 10:42 AM
HouseValues is offering the ActiveRain community a free one hour MasterMind Call. Dial into to this teleconference (no need to be at your computer) to hear what Angelique Bedel of Memphis, TN, is doing to double her income.
We'll get the inside scoop on how Angelique has hit the accelerator on her … (0 comments)
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housevalues: 7 Habits to Maximize your Phone Power- Review - 05/10/08 10:53 AM
The recent MasterMind Call with Mike Brooks, aka "Mr. Inside Sales" gave agent's tools to be more confident and productive using the phone.
You see, Mike is an expert in helping agents turn their phones into powerful marketing machines. He shared 7 habits to maximize your phone power. I'll list them … (7 comments)
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housevalues: Plunging Home Prices Down 19.4% in Year - 04/30/08 01:39 PM
Los Angeles/Orange County home prices fell 19.4 percent in the year that ended in February, the largest year-over-year decline in 21 years and the fourth consecutive month of record declines according to S&P/Case-Shiller indexes.
February marked the 13th consecutive month the S&P/ Case-Shiller indexes found a year-over-year drop in local … (0 comments)
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housevalues: Special Offer, Free Teleclass - 04/24/08 06:43 PM
I want to extend a special invitation to the ActiveRain community to attend the next HouseValues MasterMind Call.
Here's the information about the call. I think everyone could learn at least one technique to improve phone skills. Mike Brooks is tops in the field. Mark your calendar for Thursday, May 1st.
7 Habits … (0 comments)
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housevalues: Home value websites - 04/23/08 11:24 PM
I often get told by homeowners, "I looked at Zillow (or Housevalues.com, or similar) and it said my house is worth (x)". While I will admit that the values have improved over the past few years (I've been monitoring my own house since Zillow came online), they are still typically only good … (7 comments)
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housevalues: Orange County Vary Based on Area - 04/21/08 01:11 PM
According to DataQuick systems, Orange County has seen a 328 percent increase in foreclosures since one year ago and 2,232 foreclosures in the first quarter alone. That is the highest in at lease 20 years.
But that doesn't paint a complete picture of what's happening. It seems that the pricier zip … (1 comments)
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housevalues: San Clemente Housing Inventory Staying Steady Through March - 04/09/08 02:40 PM
As of April 2nd, 2008 according to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) the total number of active listings in San Clemente totaled 545 homes (condos, townhomes and single family homes). This is down 24 homes from February 2008 with a total of 521 homes on the market. We have seen a nice … (0 comments)
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housevalues: AgentCEO Part 3. Budgeting - 04/07/08 10:37 PM
Budgeting is essential, because you are in business to make a profit. Many agents do not even know how much they have made year to date, much less how much they have spent! Whenever I'm interviewing a super star agent for the HouseValues MasterMind Call series they always know their key … (2 comments)
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housevalues: Orange County Homes Sales for March - 04/02/08 04:48 PM
From the 22 days prior to March 14th, here are the homes sold for all zip codes in Orange County. Sales are down, of course, from last year at the same time but we do see a slight increase from January 2008. Let's hope we continue to see an increase in … (0 comments)
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housevalues: Can the Feds come up with a simpler mortgage process? - 04/01/08 06:30 PM
Since mortgages can be confusing and frustrating the Federal Housing department is proposing to change the process from opening to closing. It will be designed to Make it easier to compare mortgage offers, lenders will need to estimate closing costs and that barrowers know the terms of their loan.
Here are some … (1 comments)
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housevalues: Agent CEO #2- Business Plan (template included here) - 03/26/08 08:02 PM
Top producing agents know they need to treat real estate like a business. They develop a business plan and implement their plan throughout the year. When you create a business plan, one of the most important things you will be doing is planning ways to generate leads.
Agents generally plan marketing and … (8 comments)
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housevalues: House Values.com Needs To Leave Me Alone - 03/17/08 06:03 AM
The phone call comes in like clockwork. John from HouseValues has leads! Leads leads leads. Accurate e mail addresses and phone numbers of people who filled out a form! Of course he does.
I'm sorry. It's not that easy, is it. Whether the market is up or down, real estate representation … (16 comments)
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housevalues: Active Rain is Back!!!!!!!!! - 03/06/08 12:13 PM
I lumbered downstairs today bleary eyed and logged onto my blog. Active rain wasn't there. I started to shake. I got nervous. I wasn't sure what to do. I kept checking..... The symptoms got worse. I even talked about it on housevalues. I kept waiting..... I kept trying......... It was … (16 comments)
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housevalues: If You Can't Try It For Free, Don't Buy It - 03/04/08 04:23 PM
So many things on the internet are free. That is what makes it so great and why it has grown so big so fast. And a lot of the things that are free have added features that you can buy if you so chose. The business model is to give away … (4 comments)
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housevalues: Today's the BIG DAY! - 03/01/08 12:25 PM
Today my wife, Debra Gravelle, sits for her real estate exam. She has been studying for about a month using the Rockwell online course which she has found to be very thorough and easy to follow.
I am going to attempt to chronicle the day in the life of an agent wanna-be. … (4 comments)
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housevalues: HouseValues - 02/20/08 08:11 AM
Has anyone had success with HouseValues. I am new to the site and all I can find on the blogs is negative information regarding HouseValues. … (5 comments)
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housevalues: House warming parties on steroids - 02/19/08 09:14 PM
Here is a very creative prospecting idea that came from an agent on one of the HouseValues Group Coaching Calls. Lot's of great ideas get exchanged there. Here's what the coach sent over...
"An agent was receiving quite a few referrals from one of her past clients. As a thank you she … (2 comments)
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housevalues: Valentine's Day Virus Warning - 02/13/08 07:59 PM
I didn't want this to be my first blog on AR but thought this more urgent and important.
This notice just sent to all HouseValues employees:
Valentine's Day Virus Warning
There has been recent information regarding a virus that is targeting Valentine's day for release and we should be on the lookout for … (6 comments)
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housevalues: This is the only job where you can work 60 hours a week and pay to work.... - 02/12/08 08:56 AM
Lets see my lady from Somalia might not be ready to buy a home but I am going to learn about the home ownership program for section 8 tomorrow. I am going to talk to the the section 8 homeowner specialist tomorrow and find out information about the program.
I … (2 comments)
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housevalues: WOW I seem to be getting more web interest in ME:) - 02/05/08 06:26 PM
Ever since I started blogging more people seem to be coming to my website !!!!!!!!! Yesterday it was 15 and I didn't post on Craigslist!!!!!!! I even had an listing expire and more people came. My son refuses to put a link to my webpage. GRRRRR!!!!! I find this blogging … (2 comments)
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housevalues: Questioning the House Values Purchase of AR - 02/01/08 02:00 PM
Just when I was starting to get back to blogging here I find out that House Values has made a "minority purchase" of AR which has sparked some interesting posts making suggestions to HV such as the Open Letter To HouseValues (CC. Active Rain) post and two others you can read … (4 comments)
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housevalues: Housevalues, Homes.com, Homegain, Trulia, Zillow, Lets Just Give Them All Our Customers, - 01/29/08 10:41 AM
And then buy them back from them for a nice 30% referral fee, why not, we did not have to work to get them, all we had to do was write interesting blog post after interesting blog post, answer one dumb question after another on Trulia or Zillow, ... You get … (47 comments)
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housevalues: Are You Blogging For The Enemy?? - 01/28/08 06:53 PM
Attention Active Rain Bloggers, You all heard about Housevalues purchasing a minority stake in Active Rain.
Most of us do not have much nice to say about Housevalues and their other names such as justlisted.com and what ever other names they have come up with. So the question is...
Why in the world … (10 comments)
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housevalues: HouseValues Suggestions Already in Place by Their Competition - 01/24/08 12:20 PM
Dear HouseValues (and ActiveRain participants),
I read the following suggestions on the Open Letter to Housevalues blog by fellow concerned agent Cheryl Johnson about how HouseValues should clean up its image:
So there's item 1 for the suggestion box: Confirm, verify, and validate leads before you sell them.
Absolutely! At Real Estate Client Referrals, … (10 comments)
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housevalues: Open Letter To HouseValues (CC. Active Rain) - 01/24/08 09:23 AM
First of all congratulations to Jon, Matt and the rest of the AR crew.
Now that HouseValues is an investor in Active Rain, maybe some HouseValues people are here on board reading blog posts, and if so, I would like to offer them my suggestions.
Dear House Values,
First of all, make use of … (122 comments)
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housevalues: I have abandoned HouseValues. - 01/23/08 09:58 PM
I have abandoned HouseValues.
I have been doing this for a while without a single meeting. I thought for sure that someone would have wanted to meet and talk about selling their house. Even the people that said that they wanted to sell right away didn't want to meet.
I occasionally came … (52 comments)
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housevalues: Online Real Estate Traffic Accelerates in 2008 - 01/02/08 09:13 PM
Those of us who have worked in the online real estate industry are pretty familiar with the seasonality of the traffic patterns. Generally, consumer traffic starts tapering off after school starts in September and then drops dramatically in November and December. But for some reason, right after Christmas and New Year's Day, … (1 comments)
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housevalues: Please share your success stories! - 12/24/07 11:00 PM
Please share your success stories with us. I know it would be encouraging to me to hear that someone is actually closing deals using HouseValues. I've been told by people that this is a long term marketing plan. That may be so, but it's an expensive marketing plan that hopefull will … (1 comments)
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housevalues: So... how many leads have you signed up for? - 12/15/07 07:29 PM
So... how many leads have you signed up for?
I signed up for 6 leads in the area where I live. Obviously, cost was a consideration. Being that I'm totally new at this, I wasn't sure if 6 was enough or too much. But then again... how much is too much? I … (0 comments)
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housevalues: New blog for HouseValues agents started. - 12/13/07 08:54 PM
I started a new blog for HouseValues agents. I've been doing HouseValues for 3 months now. I'd like to blog with other HouseValues agents and I'm sure others would, too.
http://activerain.com/groups/housevaluesdiscussiongroup
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housevalues: Welcome to the HouseValues Discussion Group! - 12/13/07 07:51 PM
Welcome to the HouseValues Discussion Group. I'm a Certified HouseValues Professional for the 22554 area. That would be Stafford County, Virginia.
I created this blog to exchange information with other HouseValues agents.
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housevalues: Shop and Compare...Pick a company that brands YOU not themselves... - 12/11/07 07:57 AM
Housevalues? HomeGain? RealEstate.com? ServiceMagic?
Have you been down this road before?? Names like these usually strike fear into the hearts of those that have used them for one reason or another....whether it be the lack of quality referrals or the huge monthly fees and diabolical commission splits or hidden fees.
Having … (4 comments)
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housevalues: HouseValues and RealtyGenerator - Is this the End? - 11/26/07 12:37 PM
When I read credible blog posts, from real agents doing real business online - like this one from RealBlogging, I wonder if this is the beginning of the end for real estate marketing programs.
If you don't have time to read the entire post, it talks about RealtyGenerator, a real estate marketing … (8 comments)
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housevalues: Are All Lead Generation Companies Scams? - 11/23/07 03:19 PM
...Because it really makes my blood boil when I read things like this and this - about how agents get sucked into these great-sounding lead products and end up flushing their money over and over again and can't get out.
If you read some of those comments in the links, you'll find … (5 comments)
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housevalues: So What Is Housevalues Going to Do Now? Is Housevalues Gonna Pull a Realestate.com? - 11/06/07 05:28 PM
So anybody following the trends in Real Estate Brokerage definitely has heard of Housevalues, a lead generation company based in Washington.
900k Net Loss Q3 07, compared to a 500k Net Loss Q3 06...trends are not in their favor.
So whatcha gonna do Housevalues? Now that big time Real Estate Brokerages like Redfin, Zip Realty, and ReLogic have figured out the SEO … (4 comments)
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housevalues: Housevalues.com Annouces Difficult Times. - 08/06/07 01:33 PM
Housevalues the parant company of Housevalues.com Justlisted.com homepages.com has come out with additional news today."Challenges related to the current real estate climate continued to affect our business, creating financial pressure on real estate agents that is reflected in our key operating metrics. Revenue from continuing operations for the second quarter was … (3 comments)
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housevalues: Housevalues.com comes out with more bad earnings. - 07/31/07 04:31 PM
Housevalues controling company for Housevalues.com, Justlisted.com, and homepages.com came out with earnings today. Just in case you did not know, Housevalues is a public company in the Real Estate lead generation business, traded on Nasdaq stock exchange.
More bad news for the lead selling industry.
Results from continuing operations are as follows:
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housevalues: What does this Mean? Active Rain Featured Blog - 06/16/07 09:24 PM
I had a artical I wrote the other day featured here on active rain http://activerain.com/blogsview/122708/A-Open-Letter-to how does that happen, are you nominated by someone, is having that happen really that big of a deal? Do articles get featured for just a short amount of time or do they stay in there for … (5 comments)
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housevalues: Stay Away From Lead Sellers!!! - 06/13/07 09:00 AM
The lead sellers are bad news. Investigate more on your own so you know the facts, but don't be afraid to blog about it. For my markets I have found that even if I only did Pay Per Click campaigns I could generate 3X the leads for less than half the … (8 comments)
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housevalues: Survey Reveals Interesting Trends Among Second Home Buyers - 04/23/07 12:22 PM
It's great news for the airlines. A large percentage of second home buyers would as soon fly as drive to reach their vacation homes, says a new survey by HomePages.com, a division of HouseValues that allows consumers to see aerial views and neighborhood-centric information of homes.
While most second home buyers … (0 comments)
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housevalues: Fidelity Title Acquires a Lead Generation Company - 02/16/07 03:39 AM
Fidelity National Real Estate Solutions ("FNRES"), the Fidelity subsidiary that manages Cyberhomes, reports the acquisition of a lead generation company GoApply. GoApply is a small lead generator of online mortgage leads that according to website monitor Compete had about 81,000 unique visitors in December 2006. It is distinctive only in how … (4 comments)
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housevalues: HomeGain BuyerLink, YOU'RE FIRED! - 12/23/06 09:12 AM
Search Engine SPAM with a Million Dollar Budget
HomeGain, HouseValues, Homes.com etc. are all the top search engine results on Google for just about any <city name> real estate. These companies spend big dollars to make sure they they stay at the top of Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. It is almost impossible for … (28 comments)
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housevalues: Zillow, HouseValues & HomeGain - 12/12/06 12:34 PM
I blogged about Zillow's new listing service the other day and then heard that HouseValuse and HomeGain are offer something similar. I thought I'd share this info over here at Active Rain and see what agents have to say. Is this a good thing? Comment here and let me know what … (10 comments)
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housevalues: So how many leads per week does your service give me? - 12/11/06 04:18 PM
I receive this question at least three times per week about the 4MySales.com system, and every time my reply is about the same. My reply usually goes: "What if instead of charging you thousands of dollars for me to find a willing client to buy from you I could give you … (0 comments)
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housevalues: success with online lead generation - 11/28/06 07:53 PM
I posted this elsewhere in response to a question about lead generation and whether it works. Here is my response, in a blog that more people I believe will read then other forum I posted on:
I have to say, I have had great success with housevalues and other lead generation products. … (2 comments)
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housevalues: Did I tell you about the nice bridge I have for sale? - 11/06/06 04:14 PM
I read on another forum today, a post, from a Realtor wanting to put together a class action suit against housevalues.com. I have actually never visited this web site but thought I best check it out to see what all the fuss is about. Well, basically it is nothing more than … (50 comments)
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housevalues: another Housevalue lead closes - 10/30/06 06:05 PM
I know many people have no luck with internet lead generation, but I have had great success. Today I closed a 2 month old housevalues lead that was looking for 250-300k homes in the Indianapolis area(average home price here is about 145-150k to give you an idea of relevance to price) … (2 comments)
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housevalues: Housevalues? - 10/14/06 06:30 AM
I have been with housealues for several years and have had good success. Anyone else with success stories or not so good stories? … (3 comments)
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housevalues: Zillow a Dinosaur Already? - 10/05/06 10:33 AM
Several times a week, I receive calls from San Diego appraisers seeking guidance on home valuations. It is a slippery slope. Twice in the last month, we have been involved in transactions where the purchase price was 10- to 15 percent under the lender's appraised value. In one situation we represented a very … (5 comments)
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housevalues: The HouseValues rollercoaster - 09/09/06 01:58 AM
I have been following the stock price and news about HouseValues for some time now and it appears to have been a rocket ride to success; followed by a market backlash; followed by what now appears to be a period of slow growth. The company started just a few years ago … (3 comments)
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housevalues: Is it the Lead or is it the REALTOR®? - 08/29/06 06:28 PM
I posted a bit earlier about the cost of buying leads from lead generation companies and in reading a lot of correspondence and feedback about these services, it appears that there is a lot more to getting a sale than just buying a lead. If you look at how different companies … (1 comments)
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housevalues: How expensive is it to buy online leads? - 08/21/06 06:35 PM
I have always been a big proponent of investing in your own business so that leads come to you instead of paying a lot of money for somebody else to collect a lead and charge you for it. My position has been that if you invest in yourself and your prospecting … (7 comments)
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housevalues: Dallas Real Estate - HouseValues' Agent of the Month - 08/17/06 03:01 PM
WOW, what a surprise. I was nominated as the HouseValues' agent of the month for the second time. Last year, July 2005, I was called with a warning about the announcement. Today, I found out as I was checking my emails and going to the HV forum and saw a post … (5 comments)
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housevalues: HouseValues, HomeGain, LendingTree and RealEstate.com: Beware the Real Estate Parasites - 08/12/06 04:31 PM
You see their ads everywhere: in magazines, interrupting your favorite TV show and on the internet. You're tempted, so you "click here" or visit their website, and then all of a sudden you're inundated with phone calls from hungry Realtors hoping you're really looking to buy or sell a home instead … (24 comments)
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