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How the Industry Changed While I was in Iraq – Part 1/4

How the Industry Changed While I was in Iraq – Part 1/4

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 –…

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New GeekEstate Blog Contributor – Brian Wilson

New GeekEstate Blog Contributor – Brian Wilson

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…

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Carnival w/ the Geeks — CoRE #56

Carnival w/ the Geeks — CoRE #56

Welcome to the 56th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate. Since the authors of GeekEstate Blog are geeks who love technology, I decided the Carnival w/ The Geeks should have both a “geeky” winner and a non-geeky winner. With the great photoshop images that…

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Runners-Up for the 56th Carnival of Real Estate

Runners-Up for the 56th Carnival of Real Estate

I’m excited to take the reigns as a fill-in host of the 56th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate this week. The carnival, which I’ll finalize shortly, will be posted soon enough — but, I thought I’d post the runners-up for your early morning…

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Bright Ideas With Web 2.0 – 37 Signals

Bright Ideas With Web 2.0 – 37 Signals

“Elegant in its simplicity” is a good way to describe the suite of web based software tools from Chicago based 37 Signals.Com. From their home page: “We believe most software is too complex. Too many features, too many buttons, too much confusion.” Have you used…

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Welcome Larry Lohrman to the GeekEstate Team

Welcome Larry Lohrman to the GeekEstate Team

I’m very pleased to announce that Larry Lohrman is joining the regular contributors on the sidebar at GeekEstate Blog. Larry is a professional photographer specializing in real estate photography and 360VR. In addition, he is the founder of the Photography For Real Estate, a blog…

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Carnival of Real Estate #55

Carnival of Real Estate #55

The 55th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is up at TheLandJournal! Update: I’m excited to say that we’ll be hosting the carnival here at GeekEstate Blog next week to fill in for Manhattan Real Estate Voice, whose author is swamped with other commitments….

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Carnival of Real Estate #54

Carnival of Real Estate #54

The 54th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at Realty Thoughts — take a look!

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Announcing a New Regular Contributor – Jay Thompson

Announcing a New Regular Contributor – Jay Thompson

I’m very pleased to announce that GeekEstate Blog has added another regular contributor — Jay Thompson, a Realtor(R) for Century 21 Aware Realty in Phoenix, who maintains the popular PhoenixRealEstateGuy blog. In the announcement post, we mentioned that “we’re certainly interested in finding several “geeky”…

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Real Estate Technology Advancements

Real Estate Technology Advancements

I had a superb time at Real Estate Connect last week in San Francisco. It was great to put a real human face to the names I have only read, e-mailed, and spoken with over the phone over the past year. Anyway, enough rambling from…

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