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Entries from June 2008

Real Estate is Good Long Term Purchase

June 30th, 2008 · 273 Comments

Climbing the Property Ladder
Years ago, consumers (and REALTORS) were taught that buying a house or a real estate investment was a relatively long term move.  People bought homes to live in, and raise families, and fix their housing expense (as opposed to rising rents).
Conventional wisdom was that if you bought a home, you should anticipate being [...]

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Tags: Opinion · Real Estate

Somebody Flamed Our Listing!

June 27th, 2008 · 168 Comments

Photo by KIWI NZ
I got an email earlier this week from one of my Partners.
“Would you suggest defending our listing? Check out Philly Blog – the blog is 2040 St Albans. The blog poster was a previous buyer in a failed transaction. The home inspection revealed defects. The seller was willing to correct most but [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Ethics · Opinion · Social Media

What Feeds Your Blog?

June 25th, 2008 · 424 Comments

 Photo by Glutnix
There are lots of directions that real estate professionals take in their blogging efforts. And even more conversation in the blogosphere about blogging. It may be a narcissistic trend. Or maybe we just want others to validate our direction or the business benefit of this , as yet unquantified activity. But I think [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Opinion · Social Media

FHA Makes Friends With Flipper(s)

June 18th, 2008 · 222 Comments

Flipper mailbox by Sheeshoo
No, its not about our favorite Dolphin friend, its about helping lenders get REO properties off their books.
Investors have long been a staple of the REO market, and professional investorsoften bought, remodeled and sold properties for a profit.  The sale price to the consumer from the investor would generally be higher since [...]

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AgentGenius Rocks!

June 16th, 2008 · 212 Comments

Today, Inman News announced their 11th Annual Innovator Awards finalists.
In the category of Blogging the finalists were;
Blog
1000Watt Blog
AgentGenius
Big Picture Blog
FBS Blog
Homegain Real Estate Blog
It is not amazing to me that Benn Rosales and Lani Anglin-Rosales achieved such recognition so rapidly, nor that Inman recognized the quality of the writers at AgentGenius. It does however amaze [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Opinion · Real Estate · Social Media

Happy Father’s Day!

June 15th, 2008 · 191 Comments

family,opinions
 
Today is Father’s Day. For me (with My son and daughter-in-law on the West Coast) this is a day celebrated with phone calls from the West Coast, and time alone with @Pinky379 and Cisco the Superdog.
When I went to my computer this morning, I noticed that Chris Griffith had written a post entitled “Happy Father’s day“. [...]

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Tags: Opinion

Living in the Internet

June 13th, 2008 · 150 Comments

Who Needs a Second Life?
I don’t need a program called “Second Life”. I’ve tried it but I just don’t “get it”. I know I can fly, but I keep bumping into things when I try. I’m not interested in trying to be a different body type or sex on screen. Not because I am not [...]

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Tags: Social Media · Technology

Finding My Voice

June 12th, 2008 · 320 Comments

Blogging is new to me
Well, sort of. I’ve been blogging for a little while now on AgentGenius as a contributor. But that’s a blogging community so that isn’t totally my responsibility. And I have been “practicing”on Blogger with a fledgling effort called MovePhilly, but I really wasn’t sure what I was doing there.  I felt like [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Opinion · Real Estate · Social Media