+Follow Los Angeles Beat

AG Los Angeles Beat

Business templates, videos for small business pros

Business templates, videos for small business pros

Knowledge is power Creating your first startup or small business can be an exciting and stressful experience, whether you’ve been in the business world for a while or you’ve just started out. The truth is, you probably have a lot to learn about how to run a business, where to begin, and how to keep it afloat in a tough ...

Charlene Jimenez | 2012/02/04  | 27 Comments Los Angeles

Flipcomp helps real estate investors find, flip and sell better

Flipcomp helps real estate investors find, flip and sell better

Finding flip opportunities After a decade practicing real estate, Curt Ranta founded FlipComp for real estate investors to analyze opportunities for residential real estate flipping with the goal not only of helping investors to locate flip opportunities, but get proper comparables and ultimately make better profits. FlipComp includes short sales, REOs, probates, wholesale deals and even FSBOs and runs the ...

AGBeat | 2012/01/13  | 33 Comments Investments

“Breakfast hook” – More MLS hoots and hang-ups

“Breakfast hook” – More MLS hoots and hang-ups

Well friends, this is my last blooper post of the year, and I still have not run out of material. I don’t know whether to thank these hapless agents or to flog them. At the very least, Perhaps I should commend them for sending us off into 2012 with a lot of laughter. Enjoy these bloopers, and have a Happy New ...

Gwen Banta | 2011/12/21  | 25 Comments Editorials

FirstAmerican files offer to buy back its spinoff company CoreLogic

FirstAmerican files offer to buy back its spinoff company CoreLogic

SEC papers filed LOS ANGELES – After spinning off data and analytics company CoreLogic, First American Financial Corp this week offered to buy the company back, just two short years after its creation. Initially, CoreLogic was started in an effort to separate the company’s tech focus from First American’s title insurance focus. First American filed a Schedule 13D with the ...

Tara Steele | 2011/10/22  | 15 Comments Los Angeles

Wait, why did Batman get his real estate license?

Wait, why did Batman get his real estate license?

Ah, okay, that explains it. Sorry you lost your ass in the real estate market, Mr. Wayne. The video above is a silly Halloween stunt the CloudCMA.com guys (W&R Studios) put together today, what do you think?

Edna Insider | 2011/10/18  | 8 Comments Insiders

Clefit – presentation tool for iPads – video demonstration

Clefit – presentation tool for iPads – video demonstration

As seen above, Clefit is a simple app that allows you to create multi-media interactive presentations for iPad then sharing it or even downloading to your Dropbox account. It’s a simple way to whip up a product demonstration or a list of homes for a real estate client to view, complete with videos. We like Clefit because it’s a bridge ...

Lani Rosales | 2011/10/09  | 5 Comments Insiders

RentChimp real estate bookmarking site looks to compete with Nestio

RentChimp real estate bookmarking site looks to compete with Nestio

RentChimp’s 2011 launch LOS ANGELES – In 2008, AGBeat introduced the real estate world to real estate bookmarking webapp Dwellicious.com which was recently acquired by real estate marketing company VHT. In April, we introduced you to bookmarking site Nestio.com which recently received $750,000 in seed funding and have aggressive expansion goals and aim to provide transparency to the real estate ...

AGBeat | 2011/08/04  | 12 Comments Los Angeles

New mobile IDX takes nontraditional, impressive route

New mobile IDX takes nontraditional, impressive route

Mobile IDX soon to be released Although not yet announced, we have gotten the scoop on Diverse Solution’s new dsSearchAgent Mobile IDX which is in the final stages of getting “polished.” The company has been beta testing the product recently, and we are most impressed at which route they chose in offering mobile IDX search to their clients. Why you ...

AGBeat | 2011/07/07  | 39 Comments Los Angeles

MingleBird app makes a game of offline networking with tech twist

MingleBird app makes a game of offline networking with tech twist

Making offline social networking easier In Austin, we founded a massive free social event every month for people online to meet offline (#BASHH) and we do our best to help attendees to connect, but like any party or conference or networking event, some people walk in, scan the room for the people they know and flock to them, despite best ...

Lani Rosales | 2011/06/02  | 2 Comments Los Angeles