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Managing Real Estate Broker - San Diego Previews Real Estate - CA BRE# 01101958
A San Diego Realtor's blog that is usually focused on all things related to real estate--and which occasionally veers off the road

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2008 

Cleaning the Category House on my blog(s) has been a real chore, and I wrote about the hassle and dangers of duplicate content last night.Now the tagging question:What are the differences between tags and categories? How do they differ in function?Can multiple tags and tagging of blog articles le...
01/17/2008
I write for two separate blogs in addition to Active Rain: San Diego Previews (a real estate blogsite) and Luxury Home Digest (blog). Both are run on the open source WordPress platform with custom tweaking from the gurus at the Real Estate Tomato.I participated in an Advanced SEO class with blogg...
01/16/2008
We have no shortage of buyers in our San Diego real estate market. Most are just sitting on the sidelines waiting for what feels like a market bottom. It is a scenario that is probably duplicated in real estate markets throughout the country. Through a period of trial and error, we have learned ...
01/16/2008
Realtor.com is surely thumping its chest over its domination for market share and eyeballs, but other interesting observations can be gleaned from this recent Hitwise report, which released real estate induustry-wide 2007 rankings of more than 100 sites.I immediately noted that Trulia.com has pas...
01/16/2008
Years ago, when I first considered moving to Southern California from Houston, I used to stay with friends at the Coronado Shores on Coronado–which sat just across the bay from downtown San Diego. My friends’ Coronado Shores condo didn’t overlook the San Diego skyline (which it might have done h...
01/15/2008
It may be hard to consider any Rancho Santa Fe (92067) real estate a bargain, when single family Rancho Santa Fe homes start at $1.15 million and currently peak at $29.9 million. Moreover, only 16 of the current 167 active listings in RSF are priced under $2 million. Hardly the bargain bin of rea...
01/15/2008
If you are thinking of moving to La Jolla, you must already know that it is one of the most spectacular locales in the world. Some cities are the embodiment of luxury, and La Jolla, California is no exception. Coastal La Jolla is  paradise for both the traveler and the resident. Sitting just nort...
01/10/2008
Bob Dyson is a real estate legend who recently launched Sotheby’s real estate offices in the San Diego, Palm Springs and Las Vegas markets. He has kindly agreed to share some exciting news about a new real estate exchange program that is set to rock the San Diego real estate market mid-January. ...
01/10/2008
Today, Realogy is announcing that OpenHouse.com will become available to all real estate brokers, which should send up a collective cheer from home sellers around the country. The site will be comprehensive, easy-to-use, and postings will come from an automated feed from each broker’s office. Rea...
01/09/2008
Back in late November or early December, I had tried to snag six tickets for one of Cirque de Soleil’s Corteo upcoming performances in Del Mar, but they were sold out–at least for anything approaching normal tickets. Bummer, thought I. What a great Christmas gift it would be for the family and f...
01/08/2008
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