2nd Chance Blog Feature! Post the LINK to your best non-featured blog here!

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There are MANY great blogs posted here on a daily basis.  Some are lucky enough to be featured while others may have been missed.  The reasons can vary.  It's possible it wasn't flagged for feature.  Maybe the title wasn't catchy enough to draw readers?  Or maybe it was posted at the same time many other great ones were.  Who knows? 

Here's a 2nd chance for you to spotlight a blog that you believe is your best NON-featured public blog, hopefully exposing it to the thousands of readers (professional and consumer) who might've missed it the first time around. I've gone through the AR terms and didn't see a time deadline for a blog to be chosen for feature. So with that said, all previous non-featured blogs are game!

 

 

2nd CHANCE BLOG RULES:

Blog Spotlight

  • ONLY link to a blog that has NOT been featured.
  • ONLY public blogs.
    • This blog will automatically be posted on my outside blog and Twitter, so make sure you are confident with public viewing and possible inquiry.
  • ONLY ONE LINK PER PERSON!
    • I know you love many of your blogs, but only ONE please.
  • Feel free to post a short summary with your blog link explaining why you loved it or why you think others can benefit from reading it now.
  • Flag a blog other than your own for feature that you REALLY loved, laughed or learned from. (click little red flag underneath the blog).

Good Luck!! 

I can't wait to read the best-of-the-best real estate and consumer informational blogs that have been posted here! This should make for great learning and reading for weeks to come!

My Entry:

My favorite was already featured, but I'm also quite fond of this one that wasn't titled "REAL ESTATE DISCLOSURES - Remembering the "Why" Behind the Tedium"

It's about the pain behind some of the state mandated disclosures.  I've since printed it to go over with some of my home buyers and sellers to help them understand the "why" behind most of the paperwork, to possibly even embrace it.

ADDENDUM:

Just a reminder that if you convert your "Member's Only" blogs to "Public" for this challenge, you may be exposing comments that others made under the premise of it being "Member's Only" so please keep that in mind. :)

After this week, the reblog feature will be re-enabled.  Feel free to reblog (in its entirety) all of the great info found here wherever you wish. :)

THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING!

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**2nd CHANCE WINNERS**

TUESDAY: 

Leah Stern's "A Different Kind of Activerain Lead" a first time feature for her!

WEDNESDAY:

Kristi DeFazio's "Top 5 Vibes Given Off By Homes For Sale-Which One Brings in the Sale and Money?" Congrats Kristi - those things had to be said... and read... by many!

THURSDAY: We have a two-way tie: 

Mortgage professional Gene Mundt's If You're a First Time Buyer & Looking For Advice .... Read This!

and Greg Nino's Put My House On the Market, But WithOUT A Sign!

FRIDAY:  Lenn Harley's THE LATEST WORD FROM LENDERS ABOUT SHORT SALES - OR WAS IT? READ THIS BLOG!  Print out the report.  Strategize how you willuse this information to your client's benefit on both sides of the real estate coin.

**Honorable Mentions** Though you weren't featured, I just had to post that it was excrutiatingly close.

Tony Grego's - A Lender's Appraisal Does Not Care About Your Upgrades

Nyssa Smith" - Home Buyers' Frequently Asked Questions.

 

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114 Comments on 2nd CHANCE BLOG FEATURE! Post the link to your best NON-featured blog here!

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FEB
25
2010
102,039 Points 3 Featured Posts

Andi,

I've always liked this post of ours the best: 

http://activerain.com/blogsview/882147/riley-the-real-estate-dog

Thanks, for the opportunity!
7:14am • #101
653,142 Points 49 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Hi Andi! What a great idea and thank you! Here is my entry:

Co-ops On Long Island. What Are They Exactly?
7:25am • #102
125,787 Points

Great post. Looks like it is getting plenty of action. Here is one from January that had plenty of comments but was not featured. It talks about todays appraisal standards and our lenders market:

A Lender’s Appraisal Does Not Care About Your Upgrades

 

Have a great day!

Tony
7:58am • #103
Localism Sponsor Hit Router

This was a very trying in Real Estate and my life. 

Two Deer Fell in my pool

 
8:44am • #104
189,071 Points 1 Featured Post

I have NO chance - One Day, maybe. But, I am looking forward to seeing the winning blog post. Nice idea.
8:47am • #105

Awe...

I have no public blogs. I guess that leaves me out. Bummer :)

I'll look around and see if I can locate some of my old time favorites. Hopefully, they won't be Members Only.

TLW...ROAR!
8:57am • #106
550,593 Points 110 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Ooops...

That was me Andi. I forgot to log in. Duh :)
9:01am • #107
152,456 Points 1 Featured Post

Andi~ Congratulations on the feature!  This is a great idea!  Pay it forward!  Great job thinking of others like that!  Thank you!

Here is one of my posts that is public oriented titled: Home Buyers' Frequently Asked Questions.  It's so informative and was re-blogged 3 times.  So I figured it must be Feature worthy.  =)
9:03am • #108
940,440 Points 94 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp

I've written a lot of good ones and I have been lucky to be featured quite a bit. This one that I wrote last weekend was very deliberate and detailed in presenting a follow up analysis in the aftermath of the FDIC/OneWest hype. Note sure if you have been following that info, but it is interesting.

http://activerain.com/blogsview/1506471/standing-in-a-mortgage-lender-s-shoes-goes-a-long-way-towards-short-sale-approval

 
9:08am • #109

There are so many interesting things to post that i will have to go back and take a look, wow you have definitely received alot of attention with this idea!
9:27am • #110
1 Featured Post

Andi,

 

I hope this isn't too basic for your reblog post.  Thank you for asking the question.

http://activerain.com/blogsview/1064859/will-you-pause-with-me-
12:45pm • #111
1,949,497 Points 478 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

This post described a seminar I attended with Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Freddie Mac about how they plan to handle SHORT SALES in 2010.

Timely and offers good insight to listing and selling agent involved in these tedious transactions.

THE LATEST WORD FROM LENDERS ABOUT SHORT SALES - OR WAS IT?

Since it didn't get featured, it got few viewers. 
1:09pm • #112

Andi:

 

See what you think:

San Diego California Homeownership Without Mortgage Payments

1:54pm • #113
197,187 Points 39 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

***See Daily Winners posted at the bottom of the original blog***

Friday's 2nd chance blog feature winner will be posted tomorrow - Who will it be?

All of you are awesome!  It was my plan to comment on each and every one of the entries, but alas its far too many to squeeze inbetween phone calls, meetings and appointments.

I AM reading and enjoying each and every one of them though (I have been up to 1am and 2am each night!)  I also have some help (from another night owl) and we are comparing notes and catching things the other may have missed.  So we ARE reading them and taking into consideration the tone and spirit of each blog!  We have to ask ourselves:

  • Is this helpful? 
  • Does this represent our profession well? 
  • Does it represent AR well (No I'm NOT on staff!)
  • Are there already several blogs re this subject currently featured? 
  • Will this strike a chord with locals, a home buyer or home seller? 

MANY variables to consider and again I do not envy Bob Stewart at all. He has to review HUNDREDS of blogs posted each day.  God Bless that man! 

Anyway, THANK YOU FOR CONTINUED PARTICIPATION! 

NOTE:  I will enable reblog tomorrow after Friday's winner is announced so that you may pass all of this great information on to your outside blog readers.  Sometimes it helps to confirm in print what you've already been telling them!

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TLW - lol - like you needed to tell me who you were...it was the ROAR that gave you away. :)

 

 
2:51pm • #114
1,360,720 Points 93 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Good choice I loved Leah Stern's post...  it made me cry.  I got too emotional to leave a comment... Gee I guess I thought I saw it because it was Featured.  I must have read it because I saw it in the comments here. 
3:33pm • #115
197,187 Points 39 Featured Posts Outside Blog Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Yes, it was a great selection for Monday's feature winner!  

It's hard because I still have to make a choice for Friday's winner and there are many, many great posts to choose from.  Its actually kind of stressful.  I think I've narrowed it down to 4 blogs in which to choose from but the day is still early yet.  There may be someone who comes into the stretch to clinch it.  We shall see...:)

 
4:32pm • #116
FEB
26
2010
1,949,497 Points 478 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Andi.  THANKS VERY MUCH.   I really wanted that survey to get around.  It's important to any agents who lists or sells short sales.
3:07pm • #117
171,489 Points 2 Featured Posts Outside Blog Called Shot Master

Andi, that was fun for us but I know very tiring for you. Thanks for the second chance!
3:54pm • #118
589,661 Points 61 Featured Posts Outside Blog Hit Router Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

Hi Andi,

   Here is one I posted previously which I've had to convey over and over to buyers.

http://activerain.com/blogsview/1062645/buyer-s-primer-on-reo-s

 

What a great idea!

 

 
8:07pm • #119
MAY
15
2010
152,456 Points 1 Featured Post

Thank you Andi!  I didn't realize until today I was actually one of your choices!  I appreciate the honorable mention!
12:11pm • #120

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