Angela's Wicked Real Estate Stuff

I've been hearing good news from my clients down south. I've also heard good tidings from a couple up north. I'm told that the real estate downslide is slowing a bit. I'm told that the market, although not yet reflected in the statistics, is getting a bit more activity. Unexpected activity.Frankl...

Brace yourself as I go out on a limb... Typically, it's the female portion of a household that does most of the legwork and the first round of decision-making when a new home is sought. The woman usually does the initial calling, makes first contact with agents, scours the home magazines, and ga...

I'm going to be sending out some suggestions to my own clients over the next week, but I thought I'd share a few ideas here with the Active Rain community first.As the holidays approach, you are probably getting a brain-strain trying to figure out how to plan your promotional items for the New Ye...

An online collaboration services, Wridea.com offers the convenience of utilizing RSS feeds to collaborate with your project management peers. For example, if you and I were working on a project together using this free service, and you had a brainstorm and added notes to the project, I would be a...

I try to keep abreast of the cool new online tools that I think may be beneficial to real estate agents, brokers and other entrepreneurs that tend to be mobile.Although this is one that I investigated some time back, I recently reviewed some of my favorites (during a flurry of organization, in pr...

I've been reading quite a few posts on the importance of technology in Real Estate and the importance of low-tech (classic) service. Heck, I've been writing them too!In the vein of using technology to provide classic service (and classic paper-based tools in this case)... I wanted to share a grea...

On the topic of technology that's useful, portable and makes life easier, I thought this story by a home inspector was a great addition! I tripped across this story about a home inspector, Dana Bostick in California that I thought the other tech-lovers here on ActiveRain would like. He's a self-p...

I had a blog comment from Rob Lang today that reminded me that I may appear to be promoting technology for its own sake, which is not really my intent.I'm a writer. That's my first love. That's my calling. I have a professional background in marketing and a personal love of technology. That, over...

I want to take a moment to talk about the customer service aspects of making it easy to call you.As a real estate agent... your objective is to get people to pick up the phone and dial your number. You don't want ANYTHING to dissuade them. Do you? Then you may want to consider the following...Pic...

If you haven't already looked into a Tablet PC, you probably should. It makes being "mobile" less of an endurance test and more of a joy.I highly recommend a slate because:It's lighter (and who wants to lug around 30 pounds of stuff these days?)It's less obtrusive (clients will think you are jus...