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I spend a lot of time reading real estate blogs - But I always wonder where those great images come from. Are people just grabbing images off a google image search? Snagging photos or comics from other websites? If you are - they are probably copyrighted images. If you didn't personally take ...
06/12/2008
Have you ever heard of the term "Media Literacy"? The concepts been around for a while - it's a way of teaching people that you have to question the media, not take things for granted. You need to do your own research - and consider the vantage point of the person presenting the story. I worke...
06/12/2008
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I was reading a afew stories at Inman.com when Idecided to comment on one. As I was registering to comment - I discoverd that agents could create a free profile and make it available to the public. Before I created my profile - I decided to do a search in my area and see how many agents were li...
06/09/2008
Foreclosure Widget - Cool, Customizable - So What? Once again, an innocent evening in front of the computer turns into an obsession. I spent the afternoon listening to talk radio and it was all about politics. Telling you how I got from politics to the foreclosure widget is another blog entirele...
06/09/2008
A DIFFICULT TRANSACTION I recently completed a rather difficult real estate transaction with another agent. I was the listing agent on a bank owned property. The buyers agent worked with buyers that stuck with the process for over 3 months. The property had multiple problems - water in the ba...
06/06/2008
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Foreclosure Bus Tours - How do they work? I've recently been obsessed with the idea of foreclosure bus tours. I've been concentrating my business on short sales lately - and doing a foreclosure bus tour seems like a great way to get connected with buyers. There are several going on in my area a...
06/05/2008
Chicagoland Lock Boxes - 2 Different Systems? Today I traded in my old Supra e-key for the new ActiveKEY. I was happy to get this new key - until I got home and started doing some research. It appears that, while 3 Associations in Chicago's far west suburbs (including my own) are upgrading to t...
06/05/2008
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Active Rain Top 10 - Top 10 Lists I recently blogged about the Top 10 things for a FSBO Seller to consider when going it alone and got a great response. Seems like everyone likes a good top ten list - so I thought I'd troll Active Rain for the Top 10 of all Top 10 Lists! I am shamelessly puttin...
06/03/2008
The results are in! For May, 2008 here are the top resources real estate pros are looking for at Blue60.com -the resource directory for real estate professionals. Top 10 keywords searched for in May, 2008: Marketing Real estate tools Real estate Mortgage leads Marketing leads Leads Domains Fsbo...
06/02/2008
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Cool Closing Gifts - Top Ten Early in my career, I ran into a client at Home Depot a couple months after closing. We had a quick chat and I thought we had made a good connection through the sale process and beyond. Then, just before leaving - he turned to me and said "You know, my wife was surp...
06/01/2008