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An Ingenious Video Contest

Mashable alerted me to a video contest that is way too compelling - Takkle, a high school sports community site, sponsors contests with sports companies like Spalding, Sports Illustrated and the...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: new business models, new media, cool web tools, the future, real estate marketing
Using Google Maps for Marketing Local Expertise

Epiphany! I immediately realized after posting the previous article on Bay Area Market Bifurcation that real estate professionals can use Google Maps to continually update their clients on the...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: social networking, lead generation, cool web tools, google maps, real estate marketing
Bay Area Market Bifurcation

(I originally wrote this article as a reply to Pete Flint's question on Trulia Voices about the current direction of the Bay Area housing market... I reposted the answer here in...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: real estate economics, san francisco bay area, bay area housing market, san francisco, housing bubble
The End of Armchair Investing

Bigger Pockets alerted me to the lawsuit against the Marshall Reddick Real Estate Investment Club. I was waiting for this to happen. "Armchair investing" is based on series of seminars and...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: real estate investment, marshall reddick, nouveau riche, lawsuit, investment clubs
Project Blogger - Withdrawal of Judgment

I took on the role of Project Blogger judge at Caleb's request because I felt a bit guilty about my lack of participation in the contest thus far. I hadn't participated in any voting and kind of...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: blogging, project blogger, active rain, brick ranch, miamism
Project Blogger Review

Caleb Martini contacted me last week and asked if I might provide a sendoff review for the Project Bloggers. Caleb really did wonderful work coordinating the contest... I appreciated Caleb's...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: blogging, project blogger, active rain, brick ranch, miamism
Selling Snake Oil to China

Bloomberg reports: US trying to sell scary mortgage bonds to China July 13 - The Bush administration is urging China's central bank to buy more government-backed mortgage bonds in an effort to...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: events, china, trade balance, yuan, yuan appreciation
What $225,000 buys

 One parking space in Manhattan's 246 W. 17th Street condo development (Jonathan Miller, famous New York appraiser, confirms that Manhattan parking spaces are averaging $1,100 per square...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: real estate economics
Touchgraph

Touchgraph is an intriguing, fun, but fairly impractical data visualization tool.It creates visual linkage for Facebook networks... this is a partial view of mine. (The jpeg doesn't do justice to...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: cool web tools, touchgraph, google, amazon, facebook
Non-Transparent Services with a Shifty Smile

How can you tell a potential real estate scam or, at least, overpriced services? Someone will propose an outlandish solution, but the explanation is based on "it just works" and is never fully...

Started in TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE (www.TransparentRE.com) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: realty realities, transparency, scams, credit repair, mortgage scams