I got an email this morning from Obeo, the provider of my virtual tours.  It was the results from a survey they commissioned about home buying habits for internet users (there were a few people that weren’t internet consumers).

Here is part of the press release:

I wrote a “Member’s Only” post pointed at real estate professionals on ActiveRain that was mostly a rant about one of the many emails I received in regards to email marketing.  In essence, this email said that as a real estate agent, I should be pulling back on my marketing because the market is tough…  [...]

This is Part II (kind of) of Don’t make me call you…

ok, I admit it is just because the titles work well together… Don’t make me call you… but I can.  Anyway, here is the actual content.

If you list your home for sale, and it expires without selling or is withdrawn, you have consented to [...]

A month or so ago, I posed a question on ActiveRain. It was interesting, and another post I recently ran across brought it back up in my mind.
If you have a real estate license, would you still hire an agent to sell your home?
It is an interesting question to ask real estate agents for [...]

That is a question that every seller asks when their home isn’t sold.  And it is a very valid question.

Let’s look at a few things:

The number of buyers that begin their search on the internet is approaching 90%

Does your home have an exceptional internet presence?  Sure, it is on the MLS, and that means that [...]

I am in the process of building a butt-kicking single property website for a home here in the Atlanta area (not ready to spill the beans quite yet on which one…).  I have previously mentioned this here.

As I’ve put this together, I have been consulting with a small number of other agents around the country [...]

Walk-away borrowers have been a problem in a few markets (luckily, not so much in Atlanta).  The government and lending industry are both looking at ways to keep borrowers from just walking away.

So, here is the situation…
Someone buys a home with a 0% down loan.  The market turns a bit south, and now the property [...]

I see these pretty regularly, but this one was surprising because of the price.

Traditionally, these deals have involved $1m homes and leases on cars like a Mercedes or BMW. This is a house priced at $260k, and the car is an outright purchase. The house is either brand new, or pretty recently [...]

Yesterday I posted up that I was kicking around the idea of a Seller Seminar.  The focus of this seminar would be to help sellers get ready to enter the market.

Of course all sellers have been through the purchase process, but it might have only been from the other side.  Even for those that have [...]

How many “First Time Home Buyer” seminars have you heard of?  Ok, I’ve heard of zillions of them.  It is a light-bulb idea for about half of the agents that come in to the business.  We all think that we can fill a room with buyers and give them some great information…  And some are [...]