iMetro MashUp

With so much inventory on the market it often takes a couple trips with buyers to find their perfect house.  Or 5,6,7...trips.  Every once in a while though you'll find the perfecet fit very early on in the process as happened to me recently.  It reminded me to set proper expectations when workin...

facebook continues to grow and it's now the most visited site on the internet even over google!  Since that's where everyone is spending there time it's good to build out the fan page so it's like a mini website.  Some areas of the NE even have a idx solution that can go on the page and I imagine...

If you want an easy way to create a cool signature to use on out going email, especially one that can offer links to your social networking accounts I recommend the site wisestamp.com  It is free though I think they offer some sort of premium service, but I found the free program more than suffic...

Ah, we live in interesting times indeed.  I've been selling real estate for about 5 years and up until the past few months had never experienced a reverse offer and now I've dealt with it twice.  The first was on a listing of mine and we were getting ready to do a price reduction.  Before we did ...

I think QR codes do and will have a place in real estate marketing, but I would not use it in place of any other form of marketing, but in conjunction with it.  Danny Dietl Visit our NEW website and 'Like' it on Facebook. www.iMetroProperty.comAlways in search of the latest and greatest technolog...

Great blog. These 'put backs' seem like they could unravel the whole thing, but they seem to have not made a huge splash. I think it was BofA that recently settled and already had $ accounted for this with Fannie and Freddie. Will be interesting to see how this plays out. There should be thousand...

FHA has become the financing method of choice for many buyer's in our market and even for some that qualify for conventional financing and can do 20% down.  An FHA mortgage may cost a little more both upfront and in the long term, but there are some benefits.  One of the major ones that I think v...

There's been a lot said lately on strategic defaults and it truly is a case by case matter.  I read an article recently from The NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/magazine/10FOB-wwln-t.html?_r=1 simply titled Walk Away From Your Mortgage! written by By ROGER LOWENSTEIN that is truly inte...

Good take on what the near term future of what SEO will be about, especially with Google. Video, video, video! My first video blog is at youtube.com/imetroproperty Danny Dietl Like me on facebook at facebook.com/imetropropertyApparently Google LOVES Video!Okay Active Rain, you did it again!  You ...

One of the results of this economy and high unemployment is we are not creating house holds which is having a negative impact on housing.  Families are shacking up and creating all sorts of unique mulit-generational living conditions.  It's a great way to save on money while everyone chips in and...