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The housing market continues to expand, and surprise. According to the National Association of REALTORS®, November's Pending Home Sales Index gained 3 percent from October. A "pending home sale" is a home under contract but not yet closed.  The index is now at its highest point since April 2010′s...

Okay, it has come to another end.  Sadly enough football season is over. But at least now it's time for the playoffs followed by the Super Bowl!  So now let's look at the playoff picture:AFC:1st Seed:  NE Patriots2nd Seed:  Pittsburgh SteelersJets #6 @ Colts #3Ravens #5 @ Cheifs #4NFC:1st Seed: F...

Mortgage markets improved last week during a snow- and holiday-thinned series of sessions on Wall Street. Mortgage bonds improved on year-end profit-taking, mostly, leading conforming mortgage rates in Arizona lower. Last week marked the first calendar week in which mortgage rates dropped since e...

Okay everybody!  We've got to get this blog featured for tomorrow.  If you take 2:59 of time to watch this, you too will be laughing.  Let's all re-blog and suggest this blog for a featured blog tomorrow.  Thanks fur the post Kim.  It gave me a smile today!I know I've been writing quite a bit abo...

One of my very favorite features about ActiveRain is the Google Juice when you are a RainMaker with an Outside blog.  I wrote a blog that I am hoping will be found by someone out there that needs help with a short sale, and it shows up on Google's very first Organic search result!  And it wasn't ...

I was recently faced with this question from a potential client:  "Should we do a short sale on our home that we can't afford?"  This is a question that I am often times faced with.  The email came from a potential client and he went on to explain his scenario.  He owes about $400K on a home that...

This is a really good example of how to use EpropertySites and ActiveRain to get your listing to the top of Google!  I've done a couple of blogs this week about how to advertise your listings on Google and how to use EpropertySites to get to the top of Google.  Sue did a great job of making this ...

For all of my agent referral partners that are using EpropertySites to post to Craigslist, I thought that this short video that Tara made would be a help if you're using internet explorer.  I use Firefox when posting to Craigslist and have no scripting errors or any other issues.  Check out this ...

One of the coolest things I saw when I was introduced to ActiveRain was the ability to get a blog post to the first page of Google.  So why is this important to real estate professionals?  Imagine being able to go into a listing appointment and show your client that their listing was the first on...

I've ready quite a few of Tony and Suzanne Marriotts' posts and really like how they are reaching out to people out there that might be struggling with a bad real estate situation and not quite sure what to do.  I think that they give really good advise and if you're a person that might want to c...