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Washing your baby while you do the dishes may not be a good example of ways to be efficient, but here’s something that is:  Hook your cell or landline phone into a system that transcribes your voicemails into text.  You’ll get your voicemail as an email that you can read, with audio attached.  It’s kinda [...]

Stream live video from your iPhone

I ran across something last night that I think will really affect the real estate industry: Its a newly approved iPhone application that allows for live streaming from the iPhone. You can get the application from iTunes.

Leveraging Social Media, Step 1: Capturing Content

Those of you who know me, know that I’m always on a kick to capture content.  Whether it’s a video tour of a listing, or you driving through a neighborhood explaining its finer points, or just videotaping yourself ruminating about any number of real estate-related topics, the first step is to have the right gear [...]

Opinion: Short-Sales are killing our market… and what to do about it

I’ve heard some REALTORS & media say that REO/foreclosure sales are driving values down nationwide. I would argue it’s actually the short-sellers that are doing this, and it’s something we need to take immediate and decisive action to stop. Here’s why: Let’s take a fictional seller, Bob. Bob bought his house using 100% financing, and [...]