Getting Ready to Sell Your Home?

Start with this basic yet insightful home selling checklist.  It covers all the common sense aspects of getting ready for the sale – you know, the things that are so easy to overlook.  Go ahead and print this post out and do your own home seller’s inspection.

Real Estate Web 2.0 Sites Beginning to Churn

It’s only inevitable.  As the prolific web 2.0 growth cycle took place, hundreds of new real estate tool sites have popped up as part of the revolution.  Unfortunately, there’s only so much demand and attention to go around.  Bouncepad has recently failed and others will too – it’s just part of the process.

Sub Prime Problems Due To Unexpected Success?

Highly likely.  If you think about it, this really does make a lot of sense.  I mean, home prices have appreciated significantly over the last decade nationwide and the worst of the sub prime problems are only most focused in a few specific areas of the nation.  Would the mortgage market woes have happened in a real estate market with stagnant or depreciating values?

Problems Getting That Home Sold?

Price might just be your answer.  I know not many sellers want to hear this, but there comes a time when the facts must be faced and reality brought to light.  No matter how you look at it, with all other things equal in a buyer’s market, price is the final factor.

Photo Editing Keeps Getting Easier

I’m a devoted fan of Google’s free Picasa photo management and editing software and I think I’ve expressed my opinion on it repeatedly here.  But, being open minded, I realize there’s other excellent photo editing tools out there.  Adobe Lightroom is becoming a big time favorite in the real estate industry.  Read on…

Congrats to the Top 12 Women of Real Estate Blogging!

This is sort of the who’s who of women real estate bloggers for 2007.  Also a great place to start exploring top-tier real estate blogs you may or may not have discovered before.  Congrats the dedicated bloggers that made the list!