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Administrators:
Benn Rosales (^Benn)
Lani Rosales (^Lani)
Ines Hegedus-Garcia (^Ines)
Matt Stigliano (^Matt)
Missy Caulk (^Missy)
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NY mall becomes scene of arrest for record execKiddo singing sensation, Justin Bieber was set to sign copies of his new album in a New York mall when the crowd of screaming teen girls when unprepared officers fearing the insane fans would become too “unruly,” demanded that a senior Vice President...
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Lending plummetsThe Mortgage Brokers Association just released their multifamily lending report, revealing that the dollar amount decreased between 2007 to 2008, plummeting to $88 billion in volume.In retrospect, this makes perfect sense as the wheels grinded to a halt in lending across the board...
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A 16% recovery after 2010With the commercial real estate sector being among the hardest hit this year with tighter lending and rising vacancy rates, speculators are trying their hand at looking into the proverbial crystal ball and one firm, Maximus Advisors has stated firmly that 2010 will be the...
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Real Estate AffordabilityFor the third quarter in a row, housing affordability nationwide is at its highest level in nearly 20 years, with 70.1% of homes sold in Q3 deemed affordable, according to the National Association of Home Builders. Indianapolis was listed as the most affordable major hous...
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Everything has slowedResidential housing building permits authorized are down nearly 25% down from October 2008 while housing starts were down 30.7% from October 2008 and down 6.8% from September of this year. Not surprisingly, housing completions are down 30% below October 2008 as well, accordi...
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Record high delinquencies and foreclosuresThis past quarter has been a record breaking time in American history as the Mortgage Bankers Association reports that 9.64% of residential loans are delinquent (meaning at least one payment is past due but does not include homes in the foreclosure proces...
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An EpiphanyIt hit me like a thunderbolt today while I was at lunch. An epiphany about the silliness of paying a professed professional a percentage of the sales price when there were other far more logical alternatives – flat rates, for instance. Or even better, since the professional repre...
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You need more than just curb appeal to make Google happyWelcome back, time for another SEO Tip.Is your Web site like a Hollywood back-lot? All snazzy looking up front, but nothing on the inside? More importantly, does Google think that’s what it is? I’ve hinted at this a couple tim...
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Larry McLeod Shorten your URL's http://bw.ly - Use your own Identifiers!
I love my dog – I truly do. Sophie has been my dedicated companion for almost fifteen years. To me, everything she does is cute. I even excused the hole in my Persian rug as an accident (aw, com’on – there was a stuffed toy involved.) Nonetheless, when she brought in a mangled foreign objec...
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Charleston Your Home Where Are We in the Consumer Web Evolution? Another insightful post by Benn Rosales @ AgentGenius. A must read for anyone interested in Web 2.0 for Real Estate.
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November 19 at 11:44am
Associations, I’m talking to you…I hope all event planners for industry conferences read this, as IMHO it’s time for some real change around association events. Specifically, the focus should be solely as an educational opportunity to enrich members, as opposed to a profit center.This week I was...
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Stand out in the crowdIn a world of high volume, high velocity social networking, it’s no longer good enough to just be present, you have to find ways to stand out so you don’t look like every other real estate agent who is following people on Twitter, Facebook, etc. So we found a qu...
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REbarcamp as DIY PunkFrom its inception (which I was here for, but didn’t realize the significance of), the whole idea of REbarcamp seemed to have a certain spirit of the punk rock DIY ethos to it. I liked that about it. Almost as if it were giving the finger to the establishment and writ...
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November 18 at 11:03am
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900,000 blogs per 24 hoursThere are some daunting stats relating to the Internet Blogosphere. As far as anyone can figure, there are about 200 million blogs around the world. Technorati tells us there are about 900,000 blog posts made every 24 hours. A quick Google search of Commercial Real Estat...
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Wikipedia describes WordPress as “ an open source blog publishing application and can be used for basic content management”. At WordPress.org the description reads, “WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability....
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Web 2.0, More Than a Party Favor or Shiny Badge“Web2.0″, originally coined by Darcy DiNucci all the way back in 1999 was brought to debate in 2004 signaling a shift in the way we as consumers will experience the web. Web2.0 is a much debated term, there are several hard and widely ac...
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Flecked spit, sharp words and universal-truth exploded from Drill Sergeant Myrick’s military mouth, ”Private Brand…Piss-Poor-Preparation Leads To Piss-Poor-Performance!”Drill Sergeant Myrick’s teachings were as true then as they are now….especially true in 2010...
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Realtor Property Resource (RPR)Did you catch it? The whisperings of new platforms from NAR that surrounded their annual meeting have become a full blown roar. Houselogic and the Realtor Property Resource have now shed that cloud of secrecy and are now headed for the real world. AG’s Jim ...
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Hating the Tree This week I was delivering a lecture on Agency Law. For those who have read my posts before, you know that to say I’m not a fan of Dual Agency, is to put it mildly. My warnings against this type of practice are founded in the overwhelming evidence that it’s an op...
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Loan Officer, hard at work!Today, I was emailed an agreement…from another real estate agent on an expensive property that contained a very low deposit, a very, very long closing date but worse, a typed letter from a loan officer from a national bank’s mortgage division that basically...
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The Infamous SIX Percent Realtor CommissionSo after several years of disruption within the real estate industry, a heated bubble, and now a flaccid economy, we’re wondering if agents are actually doing less work? If it’s a fact that agents are doing less work, have commissions also g...
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Sitemaps help make your 100 acres easier to navigateWelcome back. My series of SEO Tips is winding down; I hope you have gotten a lot out of them. If you have questions about this, the earlier tips or something I have yet to cover, please don’t hesitate to ask.How could Christopher Robin ...
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What the font?!Ever wonder why you’re more comfortable on one site more than others? Ever wonder why it’s so much easier to read one site versus another? Well, more than likely, it has a lot to do with how the ‘real estate’ on the website is used, namely the copy (copy i...
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Many properties can exhibit some form of obsolescence – either functional, external or both. Don’t know what that it means? You’re not alone. Real estate classes often dart past these terms because real life situations that occur nationwide are difficult to cite. Yet as an appra...
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We have seen a lot of examples of how our MLS is full of misspelled words and oddly chosen adjectives. Now it’s time to move on to misplaced phrases – phrases that may leave you gasping or guffawing: A Home You Can’t Refuse “All wall damage repaired, butt cracks on surface.” (Bummer.)...
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My latest listing found me on Google by researching the term “short sale real estate agent in Western MA” and has been following my blog articles of short sale advice and education.While it is never a great thing to have to sell your home via short sale, I am honored that she valued m...
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Quick 101 refresherTake a page from advertising expert David Ogilvy to create an ad layout formula to maximize the effectiveness of your ads and flyers.According to research, readers view – in order – the following elements. Visual CaptionHeadlineCopyContact informationOf course, this isn’t the ...
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Commercial Realtor Member Profile:To start off with, the National Association of Realtors has created a profile of it’s Commercial Members. It has 51 pages of detail and stats about their Commercial Membership.A quick thumbnail shows that the Commercial Real Estate Industry is comprised of white ...
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