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Here's a post by Anna Kruchten on the importance of keeping some things to yourself rather than post it online for everyone to see.  Over sharing can have potentially serious negative consequences.  Please, make sure that you are protecting yourself first before posting your 'status updates.'  An...
10/18/2010
READ ALL ABOUT IT! Wall Street Blames Robo-Signing on Homeowners In a word...WOW.  When I read the msnbc article, I almost (almost) couldn't believe it.  Wall Street is actually blaming homeowners for the newest fiasco, this robo-signing problem. Yep, you heard right.  It's not the banks' faults,...
10/14/2010
A Seller's Guide to Lease Options In the first part of this series, I gave a brief overview of what a lease option is and is not.  If you need details on the terms, check there. Many people think that only desperate sellers and real estate investors are the only types of sellers that try to sell ...
10/14/2010
Why You Can Go Terribly Wrong using Price Per Square Footage to Determine a House Value Recently, I've gotten several people ask me what I thought their home was worth.  Usually I here something like this, "Bob just sold his home for X and he only has 2000 square feet.  I've got 2500, so mine sho...
10/13/2010
  If you've quit trying to refill your kitchen soap dispenser because of how hard it is to get to in order to refill it, then Reuben Saltzman, of Structure Tech Home Inspections offers a clever way of making that job easier.  In fact, you may only have to do it once a year!  Thanks, Reuben.   One...
10/13/2010
Bought Sales Leads Are Just A Game of Fetch, and You're the Dog! If you're a real estate agent, then I'm sure that you've gotten the call or email about the next "great" online lead generating website, where you can get 10, 20, 100 leads a month for only X dollars.  All leads are pre-qualified an...
10/12/2010
I was at a flea market recently and bought several old comic books, as my son has really got into the super-hero stuff, and I thought it would be neat for him to see what I used to read.  Flipping through the comic brought back lots of boyhood memories from my comic-collecting days, but this ad ...
10/10/2010
Better hope your MLS Photo hasn't shown up on this site, Bad MLS Photos.com. If it has, then you've just became infamous on the Internet for your poor shot selection.  Hey, don't worry though.  This isn't the only site out there posting your bad MLS photos, it just happened to be at the top of th...
10/09/2010
When Does 'Touching Up' a Listing Photo Become Fraud?  Seems appropriate for Foto Friday here on ActiveRain. There's been several posts on how to use various photo editing tools, as well as what you should, and shouldn't be editing in photos.  Still, in some edited photos, we can clearly see a mi...
10/08/2010
Man, the media seems to really be pushing renting over buying these days.  It seems that there is an article out there daily about the "benefits" of renting over owning.  I'm sure that the landlords of the nation are loving it.  Nevermind that the "data" supporting the articles usually come from ...
10/08/2010
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