Here’s a quickie from 37 signals blog. Architects: 1998 Called and it wants it’s sites back It’s a clever post worth reading. I agree with the writers POV. Big time. Sites should be easy. Simple. With a clear definition of…
Archive for August, 2008
Some blue sky through a black cloud
So you go to Vegas with $500. You win $3000 playing craps. Then you blow $1000 on slots on the way out. Good times or bad? MSN MoneyCentral published this today. And for the first time in a while it…
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Unplugging for a week
Leaving today for a week-long vacation, so you won’t see anything from me here this week. I will be at a cabin in the mountains, beyond cell range, with no internet connection. I will be: Working on my feeble fly-fishing…
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Real estate search’s finest hour…
…has not arrived. Not by a long shot. Here’s why: Think about who actually engineered search for real estate. Programmers — guys and gals with 180 IQs — guided by folks who get their kicks from Excel. Not enough input…
“Transparency” hits home
“Oh my god!” My wife was in the other room. “Someone is taking pictures of our house and putting them on the web. Look, there’s your car!” She was checking out our house on Zillow. The Zestimate didn’t bug her….
The School of Redfin, Part III
If you’re in the “traditional” real estate brokerage business, make sure you send Glenn Kelman at Redfin a gift basket this holiday season. Make it one of those extra fancy ones, with the mini salamis and the macadamia nuts. I’m…
Online real estate’s dirty little secret
You’re looking for a steak for dinner, but you’re not sure which cut you’d like. You want go to the butcher and see what looks good. Trouble is, the New Yorks are in one shop, the ribeyes in another. Flank…
Life during wartime
Part one of a two-part series. A hubbub of technological euphoria swirls in real estate. It’s been here since the early days of agent domain squatters and will likely last well past Real Estate Connect 2008, where talking heads, brokers,…
Why agents will one day rule the real estate world
Karen is my travel agent. Her services cost me $40.00 per flight. Those services save my life. I email Karen my travel particulars. Within the hour, she sends me an itinerary. I approve, she books. Runs my card. Done. I…
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