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I was tagged this morning for a list a my 2007 Goals.  I will try and make this short and sweet.  I limit it to 3 Real Estate related Goals and 1 Personal Goal.   Thanks Danilo.1.  My goal this year for real estate transactions is 60 sides.  Mostly listings because that is my specialty but I want...
01/09/2007
I want to write a follow up to a post I wrote last month regarding the new Listing service Zillow rolled out in December.  I wrote about what I saw as a serious flaw in the posting of listings to Zillow.  It seemed as if Zillow was using credit card verification to verify Listings as belonging to...
01/04/2007
Back in November, Lore Magazine published the list of what it determined was the top 50 Agents and Teams by Volume and Transactions for 2005.  I'm sure there is a reason for taking 11 months to compile the data (perhaps they don't use computers), but that is for another post.  The question that c...
01/04/2007
I have been trying to wrap my head around the advertising of listings for sale on the Internet.  What companies are doing it?  What are the source of the listings?  Who pays for the listings? What business models are being used?  And most importantly how does it affect us as realtors and agents? ...
12/28/2006
There were two major news stories in the last couple of days that are of interest to the AR community.  First, it seems we all were named Person of the Year by Time Magazine.  The magazine put a mirror on the cover of the Person of the Year issue to symbolize the contributions of the general popu...
12/18/2006
I just read an article in Business Week that paints buyers agents in a bad light.  In a nutshell it accuses buyers agent of steering clients toward listings that pay higher commissions.  It makes the assumption that if a home seller or builder pays out more than the standard commission the buyer ...
12/15/2006
It's official, or at least one study shows that real estate agents have more accidents than the average driver.  According to the San Francisco-based Quality Planning Corp., an insurance research firm, real estate agents were the 5th worst drivers of 40 professions.  Agents ranked 25th in getting...
12/15/2006
I receive Christmas cards from my family every year.  It is usually the same aunts. The only uncles that send a card are married to the aunts that send them. My mom always sends a card very early. My daughter sends me an eCard.  My significant other and I exchange cards on Christmas Day.  I also ...
12/13/2006
I found out today that if you want to enter more than one house for sale, Zillow is going to charge you to list them.  I don't know how much they charge because I'm not going to pay for something that 20 other sites do for free, so I didn't sign up.I entered one of my listings and everything went...
12/12/2006
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