My job in Baghdad was a civil affairs team chief with the mission to “improve the governance, economics, and essential services” for my district of Baghdad. As unqualified as I felt to accomplish this mission, I found myself and other captains in this position who,…

The 57th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is live at Valparaiso Indiana Home Builder – Northwest Indiana!

The most important photo of a home is the front exterior. The reason is that time and time again the listing agent is required to choose a single photo that is either featured most prominently (as on web sites) or the only photo (as in…

Recently Realtor.com announced a free blogging platform is now available for their 1.4 millionish members. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — REALTOR.com, the most comprehensive real estate listings Web site, today announces the introduction of Featured Blog and “Let’s Talk Real Estate!,” a new blogging…

Search is an amazing mechanism for gaining customers. You can do all kinds of advertising — newspapers, billboards, TV ads — but those take a scatter approach. Not everyone who sees the ads are interested in what you’ve got to say, but you hope to…

I had the pleasure of interviewing Dylan Schleppe, Austin entrepreneur who launched DriveBuy, a real estate tool that allows home buyers to quickly and efficiently get detailed listing information by simply sending a text message from their cell phones. I’ve been using Dylan’s system for…

Darren Rowse at ProBlogger published a fantastic post early this morning titled “9 Lessons You Can Learn about Blogging from Watching Me Sell My House.” Darren gives his 1st hand experience of his home being on the market for the last 4 weeks & how…

In 2005, I was a Colorado Springs real estate broker who had just sold a Keller Williams franchise five months before and opened a new private brokerage with the first 18 agents. I was having the best year of my career brokering real estate –…

I’m happy to welcome Brian Wilson to the GeekEstate Blog team. Brian Wilson is a real estate broker/owner in Colorado Springs, Colorado with Real Living Professionals. He is also launching a real estate internet site called Zolve.com in September 2007. I had the pleasure of…

I love everything about the iPhone, when it comes to real estate I have to be a realist. The defacto smart phone in this business is the Palm Treo. It’s ability to interact with the Supra lock box via its infrared connection have made it…