What's Happening over at BloodHound Blog

Here's a review of some of the leading articles at Bloodhound Blog:

Dual Agency Smack Down by Greg Swann 

A review of a book published by the Arizona Association of Realtors about dual agency laws in Arizona.  A must read for Arizona Realtors and a maybe read for others.

Metro Brokers’ new map site: First we take Colorado, then — the world!

Greg Swann reviews the mash-up technology developed by Metro Brokers from Denver. CO.  Critical reviews by tekkies in the comment section and some colorful graphics and review by Greg.

What’s Yours is Mine?

Kris Berg talks about a specific contract negotiation about "fixtures" and nineteen comments are made.  The item in question was a set of decorating shelves and the technical comments were interesting to Realtors.

Was BusinessWeek bamboozled? “Twist” doesn’t know what she doesn’t know . . .

Greg Swann discusses the retraction Business Week online made after discovering that a bubble blogger did some ...um..."creative analysis" with the MLS data.  A follow up post from Friday where Greg, Jonathan Dalton, and Jay Thompson dissected the  MLS data and found bubble blogger "Twist" to be wholly incorrect.

HARD MONEY: Life as a Legal Loan Shark

Yours truly offers information about underwriting of hard money loans.  Pretty uninspiring but attracted a great comment from a guy named NYC Joe that questioned why lenders don't have a fiduciary responsibility to the borrower.  Geno Petro stopped in to say hello.

From Rotating Careers To Gold Fish Johns

Investments broker, Jeff Brown, posts a softball about a blog he discovered The Sacramento Real Estate Blog.  Only five comments show now but it turned into a bloodbath as the author of The Sacramento Real Estate Blog and Dustin Luther of Rain City went at it.

Think globally, blog locally: If you want local leads from your real estate weblog, pursue local interests . . .

Greg Swann follows up our discussion at the Arizona Real Estate Bloggers' Roundtable with a detailed "how-to" post about how Realtors can gain leads from local links.  A MUST READ about "The Long Tail"  Sixteen Comments

Selling Out

Kris Berg exposes the contract violations of selling MLS data to non-Realtors.  Eight comments about how there will never be a ntional MLS and protecting the privacy of the consumer.  I reveal how that data is easliy obtained.