Dead or alive. Just kidding. How many excellent agents are there in your area? Well, first let’s define “excellent” so that it meets my purposes. There are successful agents who were born in the right family and have “excellent” connections. There are sucessful agents who are excellent in the old way of doing things and […]
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What if somebody built a Realty.bot that seemed to make sense from Day 1? What kind of goof-ball strategy is that in the wacky world of Web 2.0? I don’t know if Roost.com really has a business to bank on. The search.bot horizons are starting to look a little crowded. But unlike past entrants, the […]
Another Episode Of “It Doesn’t Pay To Be A Cheap Bastard” In times like these, real estate investors often search for the corners to be cut. While many of the corners should be cut – others should not. Such is the case of adequate insurance. Many sellers are having to resort to leasing out their […]
I’m engaged in a debate with Dustin Luther at his place, but the issues are important enough that I want to highlight some of my remarks here. The meta-issue: Is linking back and forth among real estate weblogs an effective marketing strategy for a consumer-focused, client-seeking real estate weblog, or do other marketing techniques offer […]
…Come on, how much do you really want to know? Dow Off To Its Worst Start Since 1991…Bank of America Set To Bail Out Countrywide…Merrill Lynch Reports 15 Billion Dollar Loss…OJ Back In Jail… For me at least, the concept of transparency in the media became evident the first time I watched The Wizard of Oz […]
Ever noticed nobody wants to know how you skinned the cat until they ascertain the cat was actually skinned? In baseball, they ask you if you won. Or if you got any hits. They ask about the details after they find out what matters — results. These days so many in real estate tell whoever […]
Okay, it’s my turn. I generally leave the loftier industry fodder for other, more qualified (if not more committed), real estate bloggers to cull over. I commend visionaries like Greg Swann for single handedly forcing readers across the R.E. Web (okay, me) to look up such words as disintermediation, Quixotism (just making sure), and even Odysseus, although the latter was only because Dan Green told me he thought […]
I have a long-time investor client — he happens to be in town right now — who delivers his most effusive praise by exclaiming, “Outstanding!” I think this is a valuable exhortation of a valuable idea: It denotes appropriate enthusiasm for the most profound kind of excellence. When I selected the short list of Odysseus […]
Lyle Lovett covers Townes Van Zandt on Flying shoes: Mindy Smith covers Dolly Parton (with Dolly singing back-up!) on Jolene: Gary Jules makes you forget all about Tears For Fears with his cover of Mad world: Technorati Tags: blogging, disintermediation, real estate, real estate marketing, technology
The other day Cathy asked me what a semi-conductor is. It takes courage to ask me an open-ended question, because you risk getting the full answer. We started with integrated circuits, which is what most people mean when that say “semi-conductor,” then got into the conductive properties of metals and minerals, slid from there to […]
Daniel Rothamel has managed to set up an event called NAR BloggerCon. I can’t figure out who’s getting conned, but I’m eager to find out. Cathy and I are flying in and out for the event — my favorite way of going anywhere. Date and Time: Monday, November 12th, 2007 @ 5:30pm. Place: The NAR […]
Last Wednesday the citizens of the United States became a lot better off. I was surprised that no one publicly popped open a bottle of champagne to celebrate. This is not some small thing, it is exciting news. The Department of Justice, Anti-Trust Division launched a website that is going to make the world a […]
by Brian Brady
Commercial Real Estate Finance Expert
Structured Debt and Equity
Licensed Real Estate Broker in AL, CA, and FL
The liquidity crisis in the mortgage industry is over. I don’t mean that we are going back to the lending guidelines of the go-go years of 2003-2006 but the non-conforming loan guidelines are coming back to a sense of normalcy. Dan Green talked about the non-conforming home loan market being like the NFL Draft, six […]
I’ve read ActiveRain’s lawsuit against Move, Inc., twice now. I had thought that I might parse the document, to show its fundamental weaknesses, but this isn’t necessary. It’s so weak that we can knock the whole thing down in a few paragraphs. The gist of the document is an extended sob story of how ActiveRain […]
Time for blogging is often hard to find. Most posts are begun on one day and finished some other, and usually it’s for the best. I started this post yesterday, and it got a bit gummed up. Nineteen hours and one Kris Berg post later, and I’m good to go. And there are important things happening in […]