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Anyone who is even mildly interested in how the real estate bubble, foreclosure crisis, and ensuing credit crisis happened absolutely must listen to this broadcast called “The Giant Pool of Money,” a joint broadcast between NPR and This American Life. It’s the most entertaining, educational 60 minutes you’ll have spent in a long time, […]

We now have an iTunes podcast!  You can find the link here (note - this link will open iTunes on your computer!).
We’ll be dedicating this podcast to publishing most of the audio content we’re also offering on our website.  The podcast is a great way to listen to real estate-related content while you’re on the […]

We find that about 2% of web-based leads usually close within 6 months. That’s 2 out of every 100 leads - pretty dismal. (It goes up to about 3% over a 12 month period, but still very low). For most Realtors, this conversion ratio is too small for them to bother putting much […]

We’ve cracked the “traveling salesman” computational math problem with our new, free-to-use optimal routing tool, www.IdealRoute.com. XKCD wrote a joking post on the issue of finding optimal routes. As the Georgia Institute of Technology writes:
“The Traveling Salesman Problem is one of the most intensively studied problems in computational mathematics. These pages are […]

These are unconfirmed at this point, but I wanted to get them out as quickly as possible because I heard them from a good source.  The new stimulus bill may provide:

 $3,500 tax CREDIT per year for 2 years ($7,000 total) for anyone who buys a foreclosure or new construction property
No pre-payment penalties allowed on future […]

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As I’ve written in previous posts, we’ve been doing a great job getting a high volume of quality leads in the door, mostly through some exceptional Google SEO work. As you can see by the picture at left, we have several hundred leads from a […]

REALTORS, here’s a way for you to be notified when properties come on the market, so you can alert clients you’re working with.Although there are several different types of alerting services out there, you may find the detailed search options available through www.TheBestHomeSearchEver.com are valuable, as we have.  For example, you can get alerts for […]

As I wrote in a previous post, we’ve modified our business from one which serves clients directly to one which focuses on connecting clients with a network of local, top 1% agents. We still service a portion of clients directly but we’ve found that we’re getting such a high volume of leads (about 20 […]

Our free buyer search tool, www.TheBestHomeSearchEver.com was recently featured in the Washington Diplomat magazine.  You can find the link here.  Enjoy!
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Realtors, here’s how we use electronic signatures with clients.  Clients absolutely love our ability to stamp their signatures and initials onto contracts and addenda, and then approve the documents via email.  This keeps them from having to run to a fax machine every time there’s a change that needs initialing, and also allows us to […]