Pittsburgh PA Real Estate Blog

Pittsburgh buyers are selling and buying homes and even with the Super Bowl and snow, I still had several serious buyers at my open house on Sunday :)Every once and a while we need to remind buyers that PEOPLE ARE BUYING HOUSES.  Weekly I send in an offer and there ends up being multiple offers o...

New Active rain headers and graphics..  There was a time when the only 2 things certain in life were death and taxes. Now I think it's time to add a 3rd item to that short list... changes at ActiveRain!  A few weeks ago in my post A Look Ahead, I mentioned that I'd be bringing out a whole bunch o...

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Cute :) but not for sale! I've put some crazy homes in here before, but this one's here because I love the mountains and I wish I lived there!  This is a real home built over a waterfall on Bear Run in the western Pennsylvania highlands, constructed for Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr.   For more info on i...

We all want to improve our capture rate.Have you ever looked at the back door of your website and see a ton of traffic - but very little lead capture?  Chances are you are having a ton of visitors but no leads.  Here are 3 common mistakes I see with Real Estate websites. 1.  View Listings - Agent...

Undertanding and appreciating Active Rain.     I have been meaning to write a tribute post to the awesomeness of Active Rain, but even for me, I had a hard time finding the words to express myself. To me, Active Rain is about the wide variety of voices of people in the real estate industry and al...

Great article and advise for creating a successful Blog. A couple months ago, I decided to create a post on my Searching Solutions Blog that contained a giant list of blogging tips on everything from setting up an effective blog, to advanced SEO tactics.  It has become a regular feature of my sit...

Lots of real estate information from many sources.Here are some interesting blog clippings from a wide range of sources from my Friendfeed Room - Real Estate - The Cutting Edge. Please click to join! Who IS benefiting from the Bailout? - activerain.com The Bailout Rap - calculatedriskblog.com -  ...

Good advise for home buyers.Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it, the old proverb goes.So as the real-estate market marks time before likely firing up again in the spring, it's a good time to mull over some of the more common things not to do to clear a trail for a happy hom...

Learn more about Twitter and social networking every Tuesday at 11am (Central Pacific Time).In case you didn't already know, Ken Cook and I have been hosting a one-hour show called Twitter Tuesday every week at 11am Central (noon Eastern, 9am Pacific) on BlogTalkRadio.  We have a guest or two eac...