I have the emotional range of an ATM. I don’t get excited often. Marc, on the other hand, is an artist, so he’s always jumping with some new enthusiasm. We make that work somehow. Today, though, we’re both on the same wavelength: super-stoked. Joel Burslem has joined our firm. That is a big deal for [...]
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Turn off the Real Estate Muzak and demand perfection
After two years of writing, I finally realize what’s missing from the ideal real estate brokerage I have been trying to document. It was revealed to me Sunday night while in the theatre watching the Michael Jackson documentary This is it. Throughout, what came across the screen was a man on an endless pursuit of [...]
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Further to my post about real estate needing to take its time with mobile …
Stumbled across this in the App Store this afternoon. Only thing missing is the dog!
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The school of Redfin revisited
Redfin was profitable last month. This well-documented fact may be an anomaly, the brief shining moment of a real estate Camelot in which tragic geeks have their day. Who knows for sure? It doesn’t matter anyway. I’m focused on this: A company that rebates half its buy-side GCI, charges a modest flat fee to list, [...]
Tech news worth noting
Lots of food for thought here: Everyone’s talking about the “real-time” web these days, usually in relation to Twitter. It seems hard to relate this to real estate in a time when sporadic FTP dumps of MLS data are still all too common. But check this: Stweet, which launched this week, is a mashup of [...]
Staying positive amid the positively horrible
I try to be positive. But sometimes it’s hard. Like when: 1. I try and refi and the mortgage broker bases his GFE on the “Make Me Move” price I placed on my home two years ago while playing around with the then-new feature on Zillow. Then, two weeks later, after he gets the appraisal, [...]
Milestones: HomeGain is ten years old and going strong
Late one evening in 1998, I received a phone call from Brad Inman. At that time, his name did not ring a bell. Just a year earlier, my new firm Access Media Group had stepped into his space of real estate syndication and amassed distribution to a client list of over 200 newspapers. I knew [...]
Two photo tools that caught my eye this week
If you don’t subscribe to MakeUseOf, you should. It’s a treasure trove of neat applications. Some of the things they surface are of marginal utility to just about anyone, but a couple things they wrote about this week are relevant to online real estate: Closr.it This free app enables you to display large, zoom-able images [...]
Lightening Crashes, an old newspaper dies
In the ’90′s, the band Live scored its biggest hit with this song. I was fortunate enough to have spent a few days on the road with the group beginning with the kick-off concert at Hershey Park. The premise of the song is simple. Death. Rebirth. These elements are described through the passing of an [...]
The venom of the crowd
[Warning: A rant - or maybe, more accurately, a sustained wail - follows.] I received the following in the mail one day last week: A “personal note” from an agent who lives thirty minutes from my home but claims to be my new neighbor and a Redwood Heights (my neighborhood) “specialist” A glossy, card stock [...]
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