It never ceases to amaze me how much a little added elevation can help out a exterior real estate shot. Because the front exterior shot is what buyers doing web searches initially see of homes a little extra effort and expense can be well worth…

Roost.com launched this morning at midnight Pacific time. (Full press release is below) Not unexpectedly, those champions of getting the news out to the RE.net — Joel, Dustin and Greg — have already summarized well the features of Roost. Go forth and read their favorable reviews. I…

As a Realtor, I like many of you, am on the run a lot and don’t always have the luxury of being at my office. And in a time where a 5 minute response time is 5 minutes too long, I depend on my phone…

When Zillow released their neighborhood data last Wednesday night, I was floored. My company had talked about trying to acquire similar data off and on over the past two years, but it was always too cost prohibitive to do so. As I thought about the…

The 74th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is live at Minnesota Property Investment.

Last week, I mentioned that guest blogging is one way to market your blog. If you watch 60 Minutes regularly, there’s a good chance that you know Anderson Cooper (an employee of CNN) has contributed stories to 60 minutes every couple weeks for quite awhile…

Dan Green, who authors The Mortgage Reports, put together a great video worth watching on the subject of “Why it matters when mortgage guidelines change.” null Link to video I’m certainly no mortgage expert, but Dan “dumbed” down the issue so regular consumers like me…

Andy Kaufman has announced today on the AgentGenius blog and Zebra Talk that he is coordinating a BarCamp to take place a day ahead of the Inman Connect Conference in SF this summer. I think it’s a great idea and I plan to do all…

I recently came across a blog that Lani Anglin, of R.E. Revealed, posted and I know we can all relate to it. Lani wrote about an experience she had with her cell phone and Sprint’s customer support – rather, lack of support. As I read…

One of the better panels at Inman Connect tackled the issue of marketing your blog. Moderated by Joel Burslem the panelists included: Erik Hersman, Principal, Zungu LLC Reggie Nicolay, Regional Technology Director, Fidelity National & Author, MyTechOpinion.com Brian Rothenberg, Product Manager, Yahoo! Real Estate And…