December 2007
Twitter Updates for 2007-11-30 →
…and we’re underway in Dallas. With Sean Taylor taking up the news this week, this one has def flown under the radar. #
Bryant Gumbel is painful already. #
Big 62 yard touchdown run by Ryan Grant! wonder if WTMJ is still giving away $620 for any Packers touchdown 62yds or longer. #
favre might be injured after getting hit throwing an interception dallas’s ball up 20-10 a few minutes into...
Foreclosure fallout: Renters forced out of lost... →
Price tag in mortgage crisis is looking like real... →
Dear Jakob, I wish I hadn't found out you left the... →
Dear Jakob, I wish I hadn’t found out you left the company you’ve been with for the last seven years from your blog. Love, Julia
November 2007
Twitter Updates for 2007-11-29 →
I really like how the tower at 1 Rincon Hill shimmers in the twilight. #
About to head out to the Online Community Report meetup at Techsoup. It’s now less than 24 hours until kickoff! #
@gesa - was supposed to come back for the gold package games, but I friends’ weddings & work kept me in the bay this year. hoping playoffs #
Stayed behind at the office while the others went off on...
Twitter Updates for 2007-11-28 →
@housechick - your eye appointment doesn’t have anything to do w/ yesterday’s events does it? ba dum bum ching #
@bkmcae - oh yeah. might have to check it out. #
RE.net people…point2 websites, whaddya think? #
Heading to the meetup/happy networking hour @ sandbox suites coworking - http://www.sandboxsuites.com/ #
[utterz] http://tinyurl.com/ys89ad Checking in w/ Sasha from Sandbox Suites:...
COLOURlovers :: Palettes →
Acronym: Who is your social media superstar? →
Twitter Updates for 2007-11-27 →
Playing around with http://iwantsandy.com/ & http://jott.com/ I was reminded of Sandy while poking around on http://getsatisfaction.com/ #
Hey! Sandy just reminded me to go home. Yes ma’am! #
@astrout - twittermap is one of the things that hooked me in the beginning #
@mukund - I know lots of people who use sopcast to watch sports. If I didn’t have the Sunday ticket, I’d be using it to...
3 Ps - The Future for Real Estate Newspaper... →
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There’s no doubt it’s a bad time to be in the newspapers classifieds business. They’re probably wishing they could back in time too. Revenues are down - with real estate classifieds advertising being hit especially hard. Mega publisher McClatchy is down 29.4% in real-estate classifieds revenue. Likewise, Gannett’s real estate classifieds revenues are down 13.5%. Not a pretty...
Countrywide Bankruptcy Likely? Not While the Feds... →
I’m a Countrywide watcher. It’s size and reach in mortgage loan origination is worthy of any mortgage originator’s respect and admiration. I had a lot of confidence in Countrywide as it marched to becoming America’s largest originator of home loans. I liked ‘em so much that I had a piece of the joint, in my IRA, until April 1, 2007.
It was no April Fool’s Day joke when I announced that they were...
The Real Reason Your Agent Should be Blogging →
Take blogging, for example. By spending just a few hours a month finding and linking to interesting articles and information - and scribing a few themselves here and there…
Yeah, that’s about right - A few hours a month. Maybe write a post or two, here and there.
Once I picked myself up off the floor and wiped the spittle from my keyboard, I had to at least appreciate the fact that the...
September S&P/Case-Shiller: San Francisco MSA... →
According to the September 2007 S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index (pdf), single-family home prices in the San Francisco MSA slipped 4.6% year-over-year and fell 0.8% from August ‘07 to September ‘07. For the broader 10-City composite (CSXR), year-over-year price growth is down 5.5% (down 0.9% from August). While Tampa remains the metro area with the largest annual decline, at...
Speaking Advice from Twitter : [chrisbrogan.com] →
Twitter Updates for 2007-11-26 →
[utterz] http://tinyurl.com/yujgy2 #
Calls returned. Getting ready to visit our listings, put up a sign, take new photos, eat lunch, and beat the traffic back to the office. #
[seesmic] Re: Seesmic is NOT awesome - http://tinyurl.com/yrmryn #
@tyr - for some reason I’m not getting video when I try to record directly to seesmic. total video noob here, just trying to make it work #
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Video SEO Guide - Video Search Engine Optimization... →
Photos, Price and Days On Market →
Stumbled onto a gem of a post at Blog.FranklyRealty.com in Buyers! Don’t Skip Photoless Listings. Save $15,000. Well worth checking out. The key points being…
I also found listings with more photos sold faster (duh). Here are the photos to Days on Market (DOM, not the champagne) analysis:
1 Photo = 70 DOM Avg
6 Photos = 40 DOM
16-19 = 36 DOM
20 MAX= 32 DOM
And…
Listings with fewer...
Video and Your Blog - Featuring Future Technology →
Ok my friends, I’m back to my old self, and off on another Technology and Marketing tangent! This is a three point post I think you’ll really enjoy. 1) A New Widget 2) Technology and Marketing 3) Video And Your Blog!
This is the new YouTube Widget that allows you to host multiple Videos via a single player. I have chosen “Future Technology” as the feature for this Widget. Watch the...
How to protect Californians from predatory lending →
Sitting On the Cusp of Lending 2.0 →
From this Month’s Wired Magazine - Q&A: Zillow’s Rich Barton on Real Estate, AI, and Basement Floods - more on Zillow’s upcoming foray into mortgages.
If you take Zillow’s principles — power to the people, transparency in marketplaces, rich information — and apply them to mortgages, there’s an obvious opportunity. So we’re working on that. We think there are many consumers out there who…...
The 6 Keys for Writing a Kick-Ass To-Do List →
Are you driven to get your to-do list done? Or do you get feelings of dread just from looking at it? Motivation is critical for getting things done. But if you don’t write to-do lists properly, even exciting projects will only inspire procrastination.
Here are some suggestions for writing a to-do list that will make you want to get moving and kick ass, instead of just take another coffee...
JustQuotes: It’s That “Other” That We’re Really... →
“While many accounts portray resetting rates as the big factor behind the surge in home-loan defaults and foreclosures this year, that isn’t quite the case. Many of the subprime mortgages that have driven up the default rate went bad in their first year or so, well before their interest rate had a chance to go higher. Some of these mortgages went to speculators who planned to flip their...
Your Social Media Reputation →
The buzz in the past 12 months has been about blogging, podcasting, online video…hundreds of ways for people to share commentary and talk about things. Regardless of how active you want to be with social media, the general population simply doesn’t care if you are in the conversation or not. They are going to blog about you, discuss the colors in your logo, comment on how customer service issues...
Why 2011 might not even be the end. →
Why the market still doesn’t get it.
After a year of contraction, the market still doesn’t understand risk. Now, in late November of 2007 (a year after the meltdown started) we are still closing and funding loans that we have no business closing and funding. And the industry still has a misunderstanding of what a “good risk” is. The below numbers are used with permission of my client.
He is a...
Twitter Updates for 2007-11-25 →
Re-upping electronic listings, returning email, watching meet the press, drinking coffee, getting ready for an open house in Alameda. #
After 3 weeks and multiple birds, i *may* be sick of turkey for the time being. #
About to head to our open house at http://1115pacific.com/ (1:30-4:30). Hoping to do some field reporting via Utterz #
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Why are sales down and prices up? →
We all know the market is slowing down. Inventory is rising. The number of sales are fewer. BUT the prices are still going up.
To better understand what is REALLY going on, you have to look at what is not selling and why. The two charts below show that the price of properties SOLD keeps going up year to year. Likewise, the properties currently in escrow have a median price higher than...
Real estate transactions without producing a... →
I’ve fallen off the face of the world for a long time, but I’m back and I’m here to provide a follow-up to my discovery of Microsoft OneNote and tablet PC’s. In short, I’ve been able to complete my last 3 transactions …from first meeting the client through to closing ….generating less than 10 sheets of paper myself ….total (2 transactions had zero paper that I produced and the third had about 6...
You Can Avoid Foreclosure and Keep Your Home →
Tips for Avoiding Foreclosure - HUD →
want to make money with your blog?it's easy...: 30... →
Twitter Updates for 2007-11-24 →
back online and building stuff. glad to see @realestatezebra got his seesmic. hopefully @respres got his as well. need to revisit it myself #
@bradcoy - are you going to be at the broker’s on tues? i’ll try to swing through. #
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UI-patterns.com →
Might Redfin Find Itself In Trouble with... →
I often swing by the Redfin site for a quick browse. The site itself is a suite of rich color (Google map colors), fun text (you maven, you), and simple navigation. Honestly, the site has managed to bring itself forward into conversational sweetness, the same way it made its search functionality into an offer making meaty goodness machine. I give many nods to Matt Goyer & the team at Redfin...
Sandy — your personal email assistant →
You may be a community freeloader if you… →
q: What do you call someone who joins communities, adds friends and generally uses social networking tools to promote their own interests solely?
a: a community freeloader
Now, promoting your interests within a community isn’t a bad thing, per se. Having strong networks of people is a great advantage to furthering your causes, getting advice, meeting the right contacts to further your career and...
Twitter Updates for 2007-11-23 →
Poking around & making a few tweaks to my tumblr blog - http://andykaufman.tumblr.com/ #
Thankful for my day. About to hit the sack. Couldn’t have scripted it much better. Take care twitterfriends & i’ll see you tomorrow #
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Adventures in the Mortgage Trenches →
One hundred pages of high-level gloss from me, the FT, the WSJ, and everywhere else on the mortgage market don’t beat one good I-Was-There piece from someone currently trying to get a mortgage. Two days before we were to sign papers (last week) my lender called me to say our county had been declared a declining market. I would need to put down 15%, and not the 10% we had both agreed to....
MLS Information Revolution →
The age of closed databases and outdated design is almost over. From someone who has been trying to crack the MLS map nut using Tempo and having to do some pretty tricky things to accomplish it, I could not be more happy with the changes coming. Let us usher in a time when the data uses are only limited by our imaginations. The MLS map is merely the first step. Once the data becomes open we will...
Paralysis by Analysis →
A couple of days ago I posted a somewhat meandering rant … well, rant may not be the correct term as the post lacked any significant level of vitriol … but it certainly meandered.
The underlying theme of my post about the mega-blogs, for those who missed it, is I’m just not all that bright sometimes. Or at least I don’t feel particularly bright when it comes to the world of Real Estate 2.0. I may...
