Apparently not only am I a Genius but I’m also a Cicerone! Now before you get turned off by my shameless self promotion- let me explain. As many of my readers know I write for the national real estate magazine Agent Genius, one of the most recognized real estate opinion leaders of the blogosphere. [...]

What do these three have in common: Viagra, Nigerian Money Transfers and Mortgage Refinance offers? Your e-mail inbox or junk mail folder is probably full of messages from their promoters. While mortgage spam has been on the decline for a while, according to CommTouch there has been a spike in mortgage spam since the Federal [...]

I’ve often joked with friends that I do mortgages on the side to support my blogging habit! Well I finally came across a tool that measures your blog addiction. Since it’s a Friday afternoon I figured I’d take the test. (I would have taken the test even if I had seen it on a Monday morning [...]

Einstein once said “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” I never really quite understood this piece of wisdom, especially as a young Physics major back in college. I was trained to believe knowledge held the power to everything. As I have grown I’ve come to realize that imagination [...]

I just saw this article on how a company is trying to outsource the local news. They are looking for a journalist in India to do the local stuff. This is a real story. I guess it was bound to happen. However, this made me think. Could they now outsource the functions of a Realtor? [...]

Seems like the past few years there has been a tussle brewing between those working in Real Estate and the Internet. This season of “creative destruction” has been somewhat painful to watch quite honestly. A case in point is the Zillow “cease and desist” order The Phoenix Real Estate Guy talked about over the weekend.
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