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The Breaking News Network - Community With Real Estate At The Center
The Domus Consulting Group has introduced a concept for using Twitter to create a community hub for breaking news, with the real estate professional at the center.
Google Plus Won't Kill Facebook But It Has Its Points
I was invited to join Google + and did so to see if it would be better than the ill-fated Google Wave. It seems to be. Here are my initial impressions.
Contractors for Your Real Estate Investing Team
Whether it's to do a major renovation in a property flip, or to repair a leaky faucet in a rental property, the return on investment for the real estate investor is impacted by your choice of contractors and repair resources.
Hard Money, Private Money & Transactional Funding
Funding for creative real estate investment deals, especially flipping and wholesaling, frequently requires short term higher cost loans to get deals closed. Learn here about hard money, private money, and transactional lenders.
Choosing a Title Company for Your Real Estate Investing Team
Active real estate investors end up sitting at a lot of closing tables. Choosing a good title company for your real estate investing team can make the experience more pleasant and profitable.
Choosing An Accountant for Your Real Estate Investment Team
Whether you've ever needed one in the past or not, a good accountant should be in your future if you intend to be successful in real estate investing. Find out why and what to look for in a good accounting professional for the real estate investor.
Selecting an Insurance Agent for Your Real Estate Investment Team
The insurance agent you select for your real estate investing team can help in more ways than just insuring houses.
The real estate mortgage broker on your real estate investing team.
Highly successful real estate investors, especially those doing rehabs and flips to retail consumers, need a good real estate mortgage broker on their team.
Choosing an Attorney for Your Real Estate Investing Team
Anyone wanting to do more than just dabble in real estate investing should carefully select a real estate experienced attorney to fill out their real estate investing team.
The right real estate professional for your real estate investment team.
Successful investors build a team around them to grow their business. Real estate investors need at least one real estate professional who can meet the specific needs of the active real estate investor.
The RPX Radar Logic Daily Index of Home Prices
Radar Logic, Inc. produces a daily home price index that presents daily reports of home price trends at 1 day, 7 day and 28 day intervals. It is to be used as a traded security to allow those involved in the housing industry to hedge their exposure through purchase or short sale of this index.
Before you even set up your Google Adwords PPC account, here's what you must do.
Before you set up a Google Adwords account, and before you pay for that first click, if you haven't made your site PPC-ready, you're wasting time and a whole lot of money. Learn what you must do here.
Getting Your Category Structure Right for Your WordPress Real Estate Site
One of the reasons blogs are so easy to use is that they are CMS, Content Management Systems. You don't have to worry about how to store or display content, as WordPress will do it for you. To make navigation easy for your visitors, here's how to develop your categories.
Tips for Choosing the Best Theme for Your WordPress Real Estate Site
Though you can change your WordPress theme later, sometimes it brings some problems that require corrective action. So, try to settle on a them that's going to do what you need done in a stylish way. Learn what to consider in choosing a WordPress theme.
Real Estate Photography Using the Eye-Fi Card
Using the Eye-Fi card has made it almost a pleasure to return from taking a group of photos, whether of a listing or just area shots for the website. This wireless card takes over when I walk back into the office, and everything is where it's supposed to be.
A WordPress Blog as Your Real Estate Website
The basics of what differentiates a blog from a website, as well as how they're the same. A blog platform can be an excellent real estate website, and WordPress real estate websites are excellent business generators.
WordPress Websites for Real Estate
This is the beginning of a series of tutorials on using WordPress for your real estate websites. WordPress web sites provide numerous advantages for the real estate professional serious about their web presence. However, this material is excellent for any business.
Becoming a Real Estate Agent Tips
If becoming a real estate agent is in your career plans, pick up some tips here about how to become a successful real estate agent, not just how to pass the test and get a license.
Economy of Scale in Multi-family Real Estate Investment
This article will help the real estate investor to see how a six unit apartment project will normally have a higher investment percentage return than six single family rental homes.
Making Luxury Homes Your Real Estate Niche
Making luxury homes your real estate niche certainly will raise your per transaction income. However, there are higher costs related to marketing, and maybe more services you'll be tasked to perform.
Working with Vacation and Resort Home Buyers as a Real Estate Niche
The vacation or resort home buyer is one of the very best real estate niches if you live in an area with significant vacation home property activity. I specialize in working with buyers in a resort market, and it's been a wonderful business for me.
The For Sale by Owner Real Estate Niche
As a real estate niche, working with FSBO sellers can be challenging, but it can also bring listings faster than other types of marketing.
Use Metes & Bounds App to Draw Plats from Legal Descriptions on the iPad
The Metes & Bounds app for the iPad really made my day. The first test after I installed the app, I entered the calls from a legal description on a deal for my buyer. It turns out that the parcel didn't close on the plat drawn by the app, and I found a type on the legal. All this took 15 minutes.
Real Estate Listings Due Diligence Avoids Problems Later
When a real estate professional lists a home or other real estate for sale, it should be normal procedure to do a lot of due diligence and document gathering to be sure that the property can be sold, and that buyers will have the information they need to make an offer.
Survey of Online Site Visitors by Gender to Get Home Feature Preferences
ZipRealty did a survey of around 1000 of their online site visitors and published the results in mid 2010. The survey asked what features and characteristics buyers preferred in a home, and was broken out by gender.