IllinoisHouseHunter Blog

  Tonight I am going to see VAN HALEN!  I am so excited, I can hardly contain myself!  I've always been a big fan of Van Halen since high school.  Now, David Lee Roth is back with the band!  Unfortunately, Michael Anthony is not - but Eddies son Wolfgang will be taking his place - 3 Van Halens an...

Looking for a fresh start -a new image, an exciting logo? One of the easiest ways to get variety of logo options is to post a project at Elance.com Elance is a place where business people post projects that need to be completed - and service providers bid on the job. I have used elance twice to c...

Have you ever gotten an incoming contact/email from someone on active rain and clicked on it from your home page?  It's a dead end.  You can't do anything with it.  You are stuck in the mud, lost in the wilderness - within a few hours you might die from starvation! When you read an incoming conta...

Lately I have been obsessed with Active Rain. My obsession didn't take hold at first, I was a member for a couple months before I even realized what to do with it. But once it took - I was hooked. But why? I've joined other social sites and never really been interested to the degree I am at Activ...

Real Estate Bloggers: Market Yourself For Free! We spend a lot of time on our blogs, we anxiously wait for the Google gods to pay attention and move our blog up in the search results. We hope customers will visit us in droves and buy or sell real estate with us. Why not give them a little push? P...

As of March 27th of this year, the MRED LLC, formerly the MLS of Northern Illinois, added a tag to allow REALTORS to identify closed transactions as short sales. The small (S) you see next to the sale price denotes it was a short sale. This is important information for REALTORS, Buyers and Selle...

I was so excited yesterday after implementing my first mobile property info service for a listing that I started to think about other tools available for the mobile consumer and/or agent. Typically, mobile content will be in demand by a younger more tech savvy audience. If you are an agent at eas...

10 Creative Ideas to help sell those stagnant listings.  In response to Maria Hollands post - I need Creative Ideas to help sell listings! 1.  Do you have a floor plan for the property?  Maybe that would help.  I blogged about floorplans yesterday - Check out EZFLoorPlan and get a floor plan here...

Single Property Sites - Value or Void? While searching for single property site resources I stumbled upon a blog that contained -by far- the most honest, worthwhile, singularly valuable analysis of a Real Estate tool I have seen on the internet. Insight from technical people, providers of the ser...

Well, Yesterday I had my photo taken for my new business cards. Today, I need to decide where to order them from! In the past, I've ordered from VistaPrint.com and ColorCardsDirect.com. There are more choices out there than I can possibly imagine but here are a few things to consider when orderin...