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Carnival of Real Estate
2007-07-31 04:51:00 Gina Gena Riede of Sacramento Real Estate Voices hosts this week carnival. Her theme was the game of Monopoly, and while she did not call out one specific winner, there were some true gems there. My own personal “Carnival of Real Estate Carnival Winners” Winner is the incomparable Kris Berg, who weighs in with yet ...
Today?s Real Estate Laughs
2007-07-28 22:06:00 A real estate-related item to brighten up your Saturday… Marin County (of George Bush Senior’s famous “hot-tubbing liberals” fame) agent Mark Lomas explores the similarities between finding that perfect person on the Internet and finding that perfect home. Unfortunately, I can’t figure out the trackback url, so you’ll have to go here, then scroll about halfway ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Today , Real , Laugh
Step Right Up?Carnival of Real Estate, Consumer Edition: Ben Franklin, 50-
2007-07-27 05:11:00 Deluged by a flood of business and personal obligations, I alas had to delay judging of the Carnival of Real Estate , Consumer Edition, until today. Apologies… Many of the entrants this week had mortgage-related topics. The clear, unapologetic winner this week is from … Phoenix (who would have thunk it?) It’s Jay Thompson waxing loquacious ... More About: Real Estate
Mortgage Mania - Part 8 The Hits Just Keep On Coming
2007-07-26 05:23:00 As I’m still reeling in shock from today’s developments in the Tour de Farce, I found this uplifting article in the NewYork Times (online edition of course): Top Lender Sees Mortgage Woes for ?Good? Risks It looks like I was uncannily correct in my forecast of rough lending seas ahead for home buyers, as Countrywide ... More About: Part , Hits , Ming , Mania
Realtors and Technology - Who benefits? Part 2
2007-07-25 19:44:00 A big “thank you” to all of you who commented, sent emails, and voted for my last post ?Realtors and Technology - Who Benefit s ?? from last week. I have also received a number of requests for the sequel, alluded to at the end of my last post. And so we go . . . Technology for ... More About: Part
Carnival Of Real Estate, Consumer Edition, Delayed By One Day
2007-07-25 06:51:00 Sorry for the delay, folks, but my judging of the Carnival of Real Estate , Consumer Edition, will have to wait till tomorrow. A number of business and personal things have come up that has made it impossible for me to do so today. Carnival of real estate, IndustryShare This More About: Real Estate
Breaking News ? The Internet Has Crashed ? All 3Oceans Real Estate Deals On
2007-07-23 00:35:00 Hat tip to Lani Anglin of ReRevealed.com in a post on Bloodhound for this breaking news from The Onion: The Internet has crashed. Reached by telegraph (since his Skype account was of course non-functional) Kevin Boer of 3Oceans real estate was in a state of panic. “How am I supposed to function without the ... More About: News , Estate , Breaking News , Real Estate
Priced Out Of Bay Area Real Estate? Here?s How To Share The Costs, The Ris
2007-07-22 20:16:00 With starter homes in some parts of the Bay Area over $1M, even well-educated high-earning, dual-income couples are having a hard time getting in, especially with interest rates creeping up. Enter a long-existing but obscure concept called “equity sharing” and a new online service called — appropriately enough — HomeEquityShare .com. The idea is simple: match prospective ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Bay Area Real Estate , Real
Realtors and Technology - Who benefits?
2007-07-21 17:45:00 Kevin’s post yesterday on how many local Realtors in the heart of Silicon Valley are still caught in the 20th century resonated with a number of readers, and sparked a larger discussion on whether new technologies are beneficial, and to whom (Realtors or their clients)? The speaker at yesterday’s meeting, Matt Rohrbach, is a loan officer at ... More About: Technology , Benefits , Benefit , Ology
Palo Alto Realtors Dragged Kicking And Screaming Into The Tech Age?And Cont
2007-07-20 19:29:00 I made it to this morning’s regular Realtor association marketing meeting to hear the speaker expound on “Sites Our Clients Are Using.” More accurately, I went to see the audience’s reaction to the talk. You would think that, being in the heart of Silicon Valley — with the nearby Sand Hill Road venture capitalists perched ... More About: Realtors , Tech , Alto , Cream , Ming
Redfin Goes On A $12M Spending Spree
2007-07-18 18:46:00 Fresh from a successful round of meetings with VC’s over on Sand Hill Road, Redfin just announced closing a successful fund-raising round of $12M, led by none other than Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The coverage of this event has been predictable: Techcruch claims that Redfin’s goal is to “completely remove real estate agents and brokers from ... More About: Spending , Spree , Goes
Fring and Plugoo: Guaranteed To Increase Your Business, Geek Street Cred,
2007-07-18 07:01:00 Like many other re.net bloggers I am more than a bit of a tech geek, quite content to play with Wordpress widgets when I should be, oh, I don’t know…doing an open house? Sending out postcards? Signing up for $800 color ads in the Palo Alto Weekly? I was an early adopter of Meebo and found ... More About: Business , Street , Geek , Ease , Sine
Contractor Who Fails To Obtain Workers? Comp Insurance Is Legally Unlicense
2007-07-17 18:00:00 All employees of contractors in California are required to be covered by workers? compensation insurance (?WCI?); California Business and Professions Code Section 7125 et seq. A residential remodeling contractor was found to be legally unlicensed because he failed to obtain WCI for his employees during a contract. His failure to pay WCI ... More About: Insurance , Workers , Comp , License , Trac
Is it the right time to buy a home?
2007-07-16 20:44:00 Investors who time any market hope to buy low and sell high, but homebuyers have a trickier time knowing when to sit on the sidelines and when to jump in. The reason? There are several… Buying a home is one of the largest financial investments a homebuyer will make. Transaction costs are expensive enough that homeowners ... More About: Time , Home
Add A Pool, Lower Your Home?s Value
2007-07-14 22:18:00 A recent thread over at Trulia Voices* pondered the question of the ROI of adding a pool to a property. The answer will almost certainly vary depending on geography and price point, but here in the Menlo Park / Palo Alto / Los Altos area and surroundings, a pool is usually a negative ROI investment. Easily ... More About: Home , Pool , Lower , Lowe
What?s The Difference Between ?Real? And ?Personal? Property? How About $4
2007-07-14 03:22:00 A friend of mine is a real estate broker in the Midwest. I don’t want to be more geographically specific for reasons that will soon become obvious. He’s representing the estate of a man who died at a ripe old age. A prospective buyer comes to see the property and asks the not uncommon question, “What’s ... More About: Personal , Property , Real , Persona , Difference
A Window (En)Treatment
2007-07-11 06:19:00 Many people are going to disagree with me, but I hate drapes. Ugh. To me, the word ?drapes? conjures up visions of heavy, floral, musky fabrics staunchly barricading a room against any ray of light which might try to eek its way in. I?ll take vertical blinds any day, thank you. In my ideal world, none ... More About: Treatment , Window
A Hidden San Carlos Treasure: Arguello Park
2007-07-10 21:45:00 Living here in the middle of Silicon Valley, with its fast pace of life, its love affair with technology, and its high cost of living, it’s easy to forget that there is a lot of nature around to be enjoyed. On Sunday I went for a walk with some friends in Argue llo Park in San ... More About: Hidden , Sure , Carlos
This Week?s Carnival of Real Estate?Coming To You All The Way From Wasilla,
2007-07-09 18:58:00 Marty Van Diest of Wasilla, Alaska, hosts this week’s real estate Carnival . Head on over and check it out. Haven’t had a chance to look everything over, but the winner, Bryant Tutas, definitely went above and beyond the call of duty in creating his post, Lead or Prospect, Are You Buying? where he completely skewers ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Week , Real
Mortgage Mania - Part 7 - It?s almost here!
2007-07-08 18:32:00 You longtime readers (since March 29th) will remember my original Mort gage Mania article “Subprime Loans - Should Palo Altans Care?” that discussed some potential ripple effects of the subprime lending boom and bust, and the resulting changes in lending requirements for purchasers of million-dollar plus homes in Palo Alto and surrounding communities. In that article I mentioned ... More About: Part , Gage
Tell Me What A Housing Crash Looks Like! This Is What A Housing Crash Look
2007-07-04 01:41:00 Take a guess what I’ve spent the last few minutes thinking about a) Altos Research brand spanking new and oh-so-cool market stats features or b) an amusing anti-globalization rally I witnessed a few years ago in downtown Palo Alto or c) both. Correct answer: c! My mind just works that way — kind of wacky, kind ... More About: Housing , Crash , Like , Look , Tell
Happy Independence Day!
2007-07-02 00:57:00 Wait a minute, you say, the 4th isn’t until Wednesday! How very astute…it is, nonetheless, Independence Day today…in Canada, that is. So here’s wishing a very happy Independence Day to our friends north of the border, and in particular to the following real-estate related folks: First, to my parents, who are comfortably ensconced in an active, RV-driving, ... More About: Happy , Epen
Heading To Florida? Want To Stay In An Indescribably Ugly Pink Seedy Motel
2007-07-01 22:53:00 Look no further than Athol Kay’s “Bad MLS Photo of the day” from yesterday. My only question is: What do you have to do to your camera lens to make everything look so pink? Real estateShare This More About: Pink , Motel , Florida , Ugly , Stay
If Steve Jobs Were A Realtor
2007-06-30 02:12:00 Real estateShare This More About: Steve , Steve Jobs , Jobs , Realtor , Were
If Alan Greenspan Were A Realtor
2007-06-30 00:27:00 A conversation I had yesterday with a mortgage broker about the Fed’s interest rate announcement yesterday reminded me of the days of Alan Greenspan and his amazing obfuscatory comments, with pundits parsing his every word in an attempt to decipher his real meaning. It got me thinking: What if Greenspan were to become a Realtor ? ... More About: Span
What Buyers Learn Before Escrow, They Forgive; What They Learn After Escrow
2007-06-27 20:31:00 I wonder if I may be making history here as the first person to ever be live-blogging a real estate legal update seminar. Twice a year my broker, Alain Pinel Realtors, runs attendance-mandatory legal update seminars hosted by Bill Jansen of Broker Risk Management. Most of us look at these events akin to a trip to ... More About: Forgive , Learn , Buyers , Fore , Escrow
If You Were Designing The Real Estate Industry From Scratch, Would It Look
2007-06-27 06:48:00 There, I knew I’d grab your attention with a headline like that! Imagine you could wave a magic wand and, presto! our whole industry structure disappears and gets replaced instantaneously with whatever you decide. What would the new real estate industry look like? Would you want to recreate what we have now, with some 1.x million independent ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Industry , Designing , Real
Finalists For Inman Innovator Awards Announced
2007-06-26 02:45:00 Inman News just announced the list of finalists for the 2007 Inman Innovator Awards . I started reading through the list and saw many familiar names and companies… Most Innovative Brokerage or Franchise…Coldwell Banker? Check. John L. Scott? Check… Most Innovative Web Service…Trulia Voices? Check. Zillow Q&A? Check. vFlyer, Wellcomemat, ... More About: Finalists , Ward , Inman , Novato
Mea Culpa: Realtors (R) Get One Year Reprieve To Continue Their Morning Dr
2007-06-25 18:29:00 I recently stated that as of July 1st, 2007 — 6 days from now — California’s new ban on holding a cell phone while driving would go into effect. It turns out I was wrong, and for that I apologize. Mea culpa! Reader Jennifer pointed out in a comment that the ban doesn’t take effect till ... More About: Realtors , Morning , Year , Conti
California Realtors Facing State Fine For Doing What We Do Best
More articles from this author:2007-06-22 16:06:00 Lest those of us practicing real estate in the great state of California forget, July 1st is the first day of a ban on holding a cell phone while driving. Those Realtors who don’t already have those cool Bluetooth Trekkie ear pieces better go out and buy one now! Better yet, get your car kitted out ... More About: State , Stat , Fine 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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