Real Estate Experts

<p>How do i edit a blog that i started. All i wrote was the title and I don't see an edit key.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>I would like a recommendation on a business card scanner.&nbsp; I would like to be able to sort, mail, email, phone contacts.</p>

<p>Recently subscribed to &quot;Listbook&quot; (<a href="http://www.listbook.com">www.listbook.com</a></p> <p>Seems to be a great tool to keep buyers and sellers loyal and</p> <p>also to add prospects .&nbsp; Any comments or experience with this product?</p> <p>Thank you</p> <p>Bob Walker/ Remax Acclaimed Realty</p> <p>)</p>

<p> Anyone using the new Droid phone yet? Getting the urge to get it, My second choice will be a blackberry due to working with Top Producer. Palm seems to be falling to 3rd place. </p> <p> Suggestions? </p>

<p> The convention is another sucess filled with tons of new information. </p>

<p>Has any of the Brokerages used XO&nbsp;comunications and if so have you had any problems with them hosting your phone lines ??</p>

<p>Hello,</p> <p>I own a 1928 Tudor style home.&nbsp; The living room has a gorgeous stucko firplace with all original tiles and beautiful original art deco sconces...but the darn thing doesn't work.&nbsp; Currently it's just a piece of unusuable artwork in the livingroom.</p> <p>I have had the work assessed and it will cost between 7.5 to 10K dollars to get this fireplace up and working again. That includes plumbed for gas and usuable as a wood burning firebox as well.</p> <p>Will repairing an unusable fireplace raise my home value or just make it more marketable when my husband and I are ready to sell?</p> <p>thanks for your input!</p> <p>Twila Karo</p> <p>p.s. there is a new HVAC system in the house, so this is not the main source of heat anymore.</p>

<p>Does anyone have a source that will take your listing from MLS data and get it loaded onto as many internet web sites as possible?&nbsp; I have seen some vendors that will put it on 5 or 6 sites but is there anyone that will put it onto say... 15 or 20 etc?</p>

<p>Hi,</p> <p>I am new at this.&nbsp; What should I name my blog?&nbsp; Any suggestions?</p> <p>Andrea</p>

<p>Good Morning Experts,</p> <p>I have 1/3 of an acre lot. In Portland, OR that's huge.&nbsp; I might as well own a football field.&nbsp; Most lots are so small, 5-6 thousand Sq FT .</p> <p>Our yard was completely unusuable.&nbsp; Huge overgrown trees, roses, and blackberries almost completely blocking the house from the road. And the yard was filled with trash, steel wire, thousands of lbs of broken concrete, a rotted out play house, nails everywhere.&nbsp; It was a complete disaster - a tetnus shot waiting to happen. We rolled up our&nbsp; sleeves and for $500 now have a nice yard.&nbsp; We traded and bartered with neighbors - traded work, etc (if yoru wondering how we kept our budgt so low.) Neighbors helping neighbors in these tight economic times.</p> <p>We had a few trees removed, saved the old growth, but had it trimmed well away from the house, planted flowering trees and shrubs along the perimiter of our corner lot to increase privacy, sme easy to care for flower beds are in now, and the rest is just a large, flat yard.&nbsp; (Schools near by - family friendly for tossing a ball?) </p> <p>We purched our home for 300K - since the yard was such a wreck - how much does our simplistic yet clean landcaping return in a down market?&nbsp; </p> <p>**Funny side note ** Neighbor comments &quot;You own this lot?&nbsp; I thought it was undeveloped land for years!&quot;</p>

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<p>What are the pros and cons of this marketing product</p>

<p> I had a plumber out yesterday who recommended a tankless water heater over a traditional tank. The cost was almost twice as much however he said the tax break and the water savings was worth it.<br /> Is anyone using a tankless water heater? At 4k - 5k it will be a while before I purchase one but it appears to be the way to go. </p> <p> -Brian </p> <p> </p>

<p>Is anyone using the&nbsp;Fujitsu ScanSnap 1500. I am about to purchase one as our office&nbsp;recommends this model. Thank you&nbsp;for any feedback you could provide.</p> <p>Deborah Lepercq<br /> Coldwell Banker, Boulder&nbsp;Colorado&nbsp;<br /> <a href="mailto:Deb@debsoldmyhome.com">Deb@debsoldmyhome.com</a></p>

<p> Here is my rant: wake up! There is only one reason to dumb-down a complicated concept, and that is to make a sale! I hate<input type="text" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: -1px; background-color: white;" size="5" value="Obama" class="blend" readonly="readonly" />, not because he is black, not because he is on the other side of the political fence, not because he won; but because he is right about something that I do not want to know, but cannot avoid: people are stupid. </p> <p> Ask yourself these questions when you are considering taking the advice of a so-called &quot;Technology Expert&quot; and buying something: </p> <ul> <li>If he is such an expert, why is he bothering with me? </li> <li>Is he trying to convince me that I am stupid, that I need him to succeed </li> <li style="">Is he &#39;dumbing things down&#39;, avoiding my technical questions because he thinks I am stupid, or to make a sale?! </li> <li style="">If it is <input type="text" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: -1px; background-color: white;" size="4" value="sooo" class="blend" readonly="readonly" /> good, why cant it be explained to where it makes sense to me? </li> <li>What is recent, real time proof of his expertise? Does <input type="text" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: -1px; background-color: white;" size="6" value="Google" class="blend" readonly="readonly" /> say he is an expert? Why not? </li> </ul> <p> I once had an agent on my <input type="text" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: -1px; background-color: white;" size="10" value="ActiveRain" class="blend" readonly="readonly" /> group ask: </p> <p> &quot;Please just break it down for me Barney style&quot; </p> <p> Then I watched as a list of &#39;benevolent&#39; vendors offered all sorts of stupid, simple, separate pieces to an online marketing puzzle that I knew would not fit together into a <input type="text" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: -1px; background-color: white;" size="10" value="succesful" class="blend" readonly="readonly" /><br /> campaign. I knew it was a loosing battle: I could not get this deal, so I said: </p> <p> &quot;Barney is for little kids, I thought you were a grownup.&quot; </p> <p> Unfortunately, we are all a little like her: we avoid the truth that we do not want to know: </p> <p> That is why I have made and completely lost $8,000,000 in the last nine years: I want to tell people the truth, not what they want to hear. </p> <p> I have a theory (yea an actual opinion imagine that) that the guy you hate the most is the guy that keeps reminding you of something that you already know but are are denying: in other words: we all know the truth when we hear it , whether we admit it or not. </p> <p> You are in an industry where there are companies who never had a good product or service, NEVER, but they have been around for years, making millions, even billions of dollars by fleecing the 90 percent of you who will not be around next year: wake up! </p> <p> See, now don&#39;t you hate me just a little for saying that, but don&#39;t you know that it is true? </p> <p> Does anybody really think that giving control of our health care to the insurance companies is a good idea? I doubt it: which is why liberals so violently hate conservatives, not because they disagree, but because they know that they are right <input type="text" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: -1px; background-color: white;" size="3" value="LOL" class="blend" readonly="readonly" />; but this rant is not about politics: it is about you: </p> <p> You should pick your vendors the same way we should all pick a Realtor: if you have a picture of you sitting on your porch with a dog, your target market had better be dog people: because I (55, single, self sufficient, educated) want the most state-of-the art, high-tech Realtor possible. This is what you should ask and do before buying anything: </p> <ul> <li>What have you done lately? (things change, what you did last year does not matter) </li> <li>Why are you better than the other alternatives I have? </li> <li>Why are you talking to me like a little child; when I am an adult? </li> <li>Do you think I am stupid? </li> <li>Show me recent proof of performance, rankings, testimonials: what does <input type="text" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: -1px; background-color: white;" size="6" value="Google" class="blend" readonly="readonly" /> have to say about what you do? </li> <li style="">How are you better than these guys that<input type="text" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: -1px; background-color: white;" size="6" value="Google" class="blend" readonly="readonly" /> says or are the best? </li> <li>How do you make your money? (IE: Where is your bread buttered?) </li> </ul> <p> Some of you people are such turkeys: sorry, but it is true: you have so many letters by your name they do not fit on a business card, <input type="text" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: -1px; background-color: white;" size="3" value="LOL" class="blend" readonly="readonly" />, do you really think anybody cares?! It is like putting on your business card: </p> <p> &quot;I am a turkey, I buy every bill of goods anybody sells me, and I never learn!&quot; </p> <p> Here is my concept: that the highest complement that any competitor can pay you is to be <input type="text" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: -1px; background-color: white;" size="5" value="soooo" class="blend" readonly="readonly" /> intimidated by the truth that you tell as to go out of their way to harm you. </p> <p> Does anybody out there really care about the truth? Let&#39;s find out, shall we, we will do a little experiment: here is the truth: </p> <p> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=real+estate+social+media+marketing&amp;btnG=Search" title="real estate social media marketing Google Search">real estate social media marketing</a> Google Search </p> <p> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=real+estate+social+media+website+design&amp;btnG=Search" title="real estate social media website design">real estate social media website design</a> Google Search </p> <p> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=realtor+smo&amp;btnG=Search" title="realtor smo Google search">realtor smo</a> Google Search </p> <p> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=realtor+sem&amp;btnG=Search" title="realtor sem Google search">realtor sem</a> Google Search </p> <p> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=internet+advertising+consultant&amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=" title="internet advertising consultant Google Search">internet advertising consultant</a> Google Search </p> <p> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;q=real+estate+social+media+advertising+&amp;btnG=Search" title="real estate social media advertising Google search">real estate social media advertising</a> Google Search </p> <p> According to Google, I may know something about this topic. </p> <p> Before you buy anything, ask Google. The truth is not good marketing, but I am going to keep telling it. </p> <p> <input type="text" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: &#39;courier new&#39;; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: -1px; background-color: white;" size="4" value="Ahhh" class="blend" readonly="readonly" /> I feel so much better now, you should try it, join in! </p>