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  Ever wanted to feel like Donald Trump? Well I decided to finally break down and redesign my FranklyMLS.com site. Initially I wanted to KISS, Keep it Simple Stupid with the design. Have it be DATA driven and ultra fast. Actually not ONE graphic or Icon on the entire site (except photos of homes)...
10/16/2008
So the stock market is crashing to the worst week ever (I think due to off books Enron style account, see 07 warning). So how will that affect the housing market for luxury homes? Don't care? Then don't read this. I had a theory- albeit obvious - that those buying Virginia luxury homes over $1 Mi...
10/10/2008
For every mud slinging political campaign, there has to be a response ad right? Well I'm like the response ad (even though the mud wasn't thrown at me) See "Roost Goes Negative" on Joel Burslem's page. An Attack add by Roost.com vs Trulia.com Google Base and Yahoo's Home Search. (warning: kinda ...
10/08/2008
First my thoughts on the $700,000,000,000 bail out... I told you so! Read my blog post from 12-2007 entitled: SIV= Imagine Enron, Bank Wide. (I posted it on my more frequent, but less polished blog on ActiveRain) The #1 problem is OFF-BOOKS accounting! All of these sub-prime loans are hidden. Nob...
09/21/2008
Just an update to my rant yesterday about sucky internet lenders and Lending Tree.com. At the advice of the listing agent, we used her favorite lender Darran Anthony from Suntrust. My clients were given endless last minute excuses for 3 days, and come the closing day, the excuses continued. We di...
09/19/2008
Any agents out there frustrated because their clients got caught up in the "Lending Tree, When Banks Compete You Win?" Well, as many of you know, that is a crock. Great marketing slogan though! "When Banks Compete, You LOSE!" Too many times these internet lenders screw my clients. They get sucker...
09/18/2008
This is only for the super techy out there. Who has a Blackberry? I am currently set up with T-Mobile and I'm getting my email at work using a POP mail server. What is really annoying is that I might be gone for 5 hours and have read 20 emails on my phone, and when I get back to the office, I hav...
09/14/2008
Hope you like my first official Wheel Estate Cam! And do me a favor, link over to Youtube and leave a comment there too. Did you get sick? Should I use www.WheelEstateCam.com?? (should work today or tomorrow) I did buy it just in case! Frank Update, here is another Wheel Estate Cam, a little less...
08/13/2008
Don't Buy Our Listings!? How can I say that? Because our listings NET sellers more (not buyers). Many agents will tell the sellers, "I can get you top dolla' " (or they BUY a listing) and then turn around and tell buyers "this is a great 'deal'!" Well, you can't have it both ways. Is it a good de...
08/05/2008
For those of you that know that I am a Kodak v570 SuperWide Camera addicted freak, Laurie just told me that a seller is selling 15 of them now on Ebay for $200 plus $13 shipping. I have been watching this camera for 9 months. THis is a great price for a used one, let alone a new one.   HERE IS TH...
08/02/2008
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