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In story today at Inman News, Glenn Roberts writes about ActiveRain filing a lawsuit against Move, Inc. because Move did not purchase or invest in the platform.Move operates the mighty Realtor.com and may have been looking at Active Rain as the forum for its recently launched free blogs for REALT...

Here is a recent press release about MLS consolidation here in Washington state.  There are a number of companies working on putting together a national platform.  Some how I think one of these companies will be able to pull it off a long time before there is national consolidation of the existin...

Here is a story of the joys of being in a Homeowners Association.  It's a good thing they aren't all like this.When a homeowners’ association board of directors misuses its authority, it can have costly consequences as some Redmond, Wash. residents are learning. In a dispute about a fence color ...

Seller Makes His Agent's Commission Bigger By Not ListeningI'm watching an episode of Buy Me on HGTV where the sellers agent recommended they take an offer of $330k and the seller refused, made two counters and got $345k.  The agent actually made more money by giving bad advice. On top of that, ...

Seller Makes His Agent's Commission Bigger By Not ListeningI'm watching an episode of Buy Me on HGTV where the sellers agent recommended they take an offer of $330k and the seller refused, made two counters and got $345k.  The agent actually made more money by giving bad advice. On top of that, ...

Interested How Many Homes Are Listed in Your City?Visitors to DeLuz.com and YourEastsideBroker.com can now see how many properties are listed for sale in Puget Sound area cities. Where else can you see this data? Do you want to know how many homes are for sale in Bellevue? Kirkland?  Redmond?  S...

I'm wondering if anyone out there has used Zillow for advertising?  What were your results? We got 5000 page views for our key words in about 5 days, which resulted in zero calls, zero web visits and $50 down the drain.Do I need more consistency?  A better message?  or a different venue?        S...

Over six months ago I predicted that we will start seeing more homes in Bellevue available for sale for less than $500k.  At that time, there were very few.  The number of sub half million dollar houses in Belleve is indeed growing again.  Today there are 48 SFR listed for sale in Bellevue - and ...

  I'm not sure why they keep getting away with it, but Redfin and its Sweet Digs Bloggers continue to blog about (and thus advertise) other brokers' listings even though it is in violation of rules about advertising other brokers listings without their permission.This post is a list of open house...

A big CONGRATULATIONS to Matt Heaton and Jonathon Washburn of ActiveRain for being named at "Notables" on Inman News' list of 100 most influential real estate leaders.They probably should have made it somewhere else in the list, but I guess they couldn't fit everyone.  I guess Ardell was probably...