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More Good Rain

The Mortgage Bankers Association said its mortgage applications were 10.5% above their year-ago level. Borrowing costs on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, excluding fees, averaged 6.41%, down 0.08 percentage point from the previous week. Interest rates were above year-ago levels, which averaged 6.39%. Thanks to real estate... Read more →

When It Rains it Pours II: So Much Good News

Average Home prices fell 3.2 percent in the second quarter, the steepest rate of decline since Standard & Poor's began its nationwide housing index in 1987.However, Seattle and Charlotte, N.C., saw prices rise in the same period. Seattle prices rose 8 percent in June while Charlotte saw a 6.8 percent increase.California overall, saw a 3.2% increase in price. It is important to remember that the cities that dropped also saw unprecedented pricing gains. So comparing this year to historical high prices will show historical drops.

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When it Rains it Pours

It was not that hard to find this news. And for everyone of the above bullet points,you and I can both find a counter point. As well as equally bad news. But as our Mortgage Author friend at Active Rain does not seem to get, noone gets paid for bad news except your local paper. Read more →

Google Ads Help Your SEO? I get asked..

Someone told me if you use Google Analytics and Adwords, you rankings will be higher. Do you agree? Read more →

Videos The Future of Online Marketing

A real estate or mortgage website must have these two elements if it is to have a shot at success: A Unique Selling Proposition that drives its purpose. A Call to Action or offer. Read more →

Parking by Association

The power of a professional association knows no bounds. It is like a Union for White Collar workers. I am no fan of the most Board of Realtors as I liken them to the worst of DMV stereotypes.  But the following brings up very funny images to mind.

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Coloring Your Google Bar Green

When your internal pages are respected by Google (respect only comes when you have valued links) then those pages can serve you by getting those pages placed in the SERPS. If you do not have traffic from your internals, then why have any at pages at all? Read more →

If You Snooze You Lose

Foreclosures are up , Prices are up, Sales lag. Huh? Is the world going crazy? How is this possible? Despite heavy foreclosure data, and bad news, there is good news in the market. What are you going to believe? Whose job is it to SELL... Read more →

Karma

Along came bloggers looking for a good deal. Many fledgling blog authors chose Blogspot as their posting destination. The beauty of Blogging and the Downside of blogging is its ease of use. You can even post remotely, off in the future, and by phone. This ease made it a breeze for "spammers" to get thousands of posts into Blogspot. Read more →

I get Questions:

I guess this question was was asked in order to test my Googling skills: Aloha Tim, I’m interested to know what is the percentage of women vs. mean in real estate? In Hawaii it’s pretty obvious that there are more females in the industry then... Read more →