Just ask my wife. And I have a LOT of tools… again, feel free to ask my wife.
I have a wide variety. Welder, Plasma Cutter, Bandsaw, air tools and compressor, hand tools… LOADS of tools. In fact, the biggest issue I face with my tools is organized tool storage. And that is a whole different post.
Back to the tools…
For a little over a year I have been a member of a real estate social networking site called Active|Rain. For the whole time there has been a sister platform called Localism. And also for that whole period of time, Localism has been in a beta stage.
**Side note. Beta stage means that it wasn’t really done, but was running full speed.**
The beta Localism platform was nice, but wasn’t great. It pulled a fair amount of search traffic from Google, and that was always great… but it wasn’t sticky. That means that people would do a search, go to the result, read it and then leave.
The new site isn’t that way. And it isn’t all about real estate. Make no doubt, real estate is front and center right now, but as the the site matures, real estate won’t be the center.
So, Localism has been completely redesigned, and it isn’t in beta any more. And it is pretty cool.
Anyway, on to the point…
Come on in and take a look at Lilburn. Look around. Let me know what you think. I’ll be adding more content, as will all of the other participants. In fact, ANYONE can join and contribute content for Localism. Come on in, the water is fine.
I keep seeing and hearing about “dirty little secrets” that real estate agents won’t tell their clients. Most of them turn out to be pretty stupid points. However, today while going through my morning routine (dead-heading, so my brain needed something to do) I thought of the dirty little secret that FSBO companies don’t tell their customers.
Today has been pretty chewed up with travel and getting things ready for RE Bar Camp and The Inman Connect. Both of these are real estate technology events this week in San Francisco. Since I am with a brokerage that leverages Web 2.0 technologies, it is only fitting that I be here for these great events.
Honestly, I really don’t have much to add, so I’m going to just toss out my “Twitterstream” of events leading up to being here…
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LaneBailey at the hotel palomar… any other inman people here? |
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LaneBailey have I mentioned that I hate waiting for luggage. |
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LaneBailey on the ground at SFO. waiting to get off the plane. |
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LaneBailey sitting in the Sojourner’s café on concourse D at ATL |
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LaneBailey getting an earlier flight… woo hoo. |
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LaneBailey testing from my phone. leaving the ATL soon. |
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LaneBailey @susie104 Twitter can’t find you. |
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LaneBailey 2 hours until I leave for a broker meeting and the airport. I have 4 hours worth of work to do. |
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I have a friend in PA that is a mortgage broker. He also views the world from a unique perspective. And that unique perspective makes seems to push him to talk straight… or at least think straight while writing with more curves than Marilyn Monroe.
Think “Beatnik meets GenX” or “Jack Kerouac as a mortgage broker”. Insightful, off-beat and ocassionally offensive… but in a good way (I think people NEED to be offended sometimes)…
So, without further ado, here is a link to Jason’s post.
Bail Out My A$$… or Do It Yourself.
Enjoy…