AG Media Coverage Beat
The most spectacular streets of L.A.
$wimming Pools, Movie $tars…and $treets of Gold! Hey friends – instead of a humorous look at the MLS this week, I wanted to share something personal – my wonderful city of Los Angeles. If you’d like to know where and what the most desirable streets in L.A. are, check out this great report in the L.A. Times by Lauren Beale: ...
HUGE News From Twitter – Trending LOCAL Topics
Twitter announced yesterday the roll out of Local Trending Topics.(We knew they would be putting to good use their purchase of GeoAPI last month). This is a big event for the real estate industry and for real estate bloggers especially. “Who cares what I ate for lunch yesterday?” you ask…. it’s not that, it is the ability to have your ...
Real Estate is About MEA CULPA
It’s my Fault (With a nod to a well know blogger who has a propensity for using latin, I would explain to those readers who are not familiar to the phrase that "Mea Culpa is latin for “my fault”) Over the years, I find that people handle problems and successes differently. There are people who take responsibility for their success ...
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The Homeowner Rescue Bill Rescues Fannie and Freddie Investors.
The Homeowner Rescue Bill Rescues Fannie and Freddie Investors. I don’t see any other groups being rescued. Normally I don’t find it difficult to disagree with President George W. Bush about pretty much everything (save the curvature of the earth and that humans should breathe oxygen). This time it is different. Bush had to have been ashamed to have signed ...
Florida Suing Countrywide
…Adds Themselves to the Growing List of States At the beginning of the month, Countrywide was acquired by Bank of America, but that has not stopped the troubles Countrywide got themselves into. Led by their Chief Executive, Angelo Mozilo (their "perfectly tanned" leader), Countrywide became the Number 1 lender in the nation, and also the Number 1 in scandals surrounding ...
Trulia Unveils Snapshots
Trulia Unveils Snapshots Today, Trulia unveils Trulia Snapshots, their new alternative browsing model for home buyers checking out listings. Much of the recent research shows that the most important thing to home buyers searching online is pictures and Trulia cuts right to the point and offers a way to surf pictures first and details later. Let’s take a quick tour ...
Real Estate SALE
I have been bitting my tongue for the last couple of days with this Coldwell Banker 10 Day Sale Event that’s happening right now and can’t hold back any longer. Rick and I are Coldwell Banker agents and we believe in Coldwell Banker because of it’s corporate style and because it’s a huge company (it fits our business ethic). Last ...
Intriguing Addition to AG
Please help us in welcoming Rich Jacobson (aka Sparky, aka ActiveRich) to Agent Genius! Rich has a unique background as a real estate professional, noted speaker, social guru, and for those who know him on Twitter and other networks, you already know he’s an all-around nice guy! He has insider knowledge of the inner workings of Active Rain (where he ...
When Your Buyers Hate You, Please Don’t Turn to a Life of Crime
(Photo Credit: Flickr, Bedford Jail Cell – Gloomy50) “A real estate agent in Colorado Springs sent four children -two of them family friends — to exact her revenge on a client who passed on a lucrative contract nearly three years ago, police said. [This ReMax agent], is accused of supplying four 13-year-old boys with the vegetable oil and spray paint ...
Blogger, Please!
A Tale of Two Blogs I am pretty new to the bologsphere or blogiverse or blog-o-rama (pick your favorite) so I jump around a little to see different approaches to blogging and to see what different topics seem to have some “buzz”. Imagine my surprise when, in a short time, I run across two blogs in two different locations, about ...
Go Spread the Good News!
Hard week? Hard market? Rough eh? Well, consider these eight things and spread the good news while you’re at it: Fact #1: Some six million Americans are expected to buy a home this year. Six million people in the game make up a pretty big game. Fact #2: There is still over $23 trillion of value in u.s. housing stock. ...
Hitting the Real Estate Market Bullseye
Sound familiar: Professionals who fake home appraisals are helping fuel a rise in mortgage fraud in Indiana, bilking would-be home buyers or lenders out of millions of dollars, officials warn. Oh great, another “negative” story on the industry, yeah, it is. But this one is dated November 12, 2002 and appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer in an Associated Press article. ...
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