This post on TechCrunch is a few weeks old. But it worth taking a look at if you haven’t already.
How Accurate Are Listings on Real Estate Websites?
If you already read the post I would still go back and check out comments you might of missed. The comments are a “who’s who” of online real estate.
Great stuff!
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.
I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. ~Abraham Lincoln
As many of you know I’m selling my house. I currently live in South Florida, which our friends in the press have called “Ground Zero for the real estate crisis”.
Great.
I want to move back to Southern California (Which I guess would be the “1st floor” of the real estate “crisis” if South Florida is “Ground Zero”?)
I digess.
About the only thing I have going for me, beside a nice house, is that I bought back in 2003, not 2005.
Anyway, my house was listed exactly 1 month ago. So far I’ve had 19 showings, so I’m pretty happy with the traffic. Today we had 3 showings. Tomorrow we have 2 other showings plus a “second showing” (meaning someone is coming back to see it again). Cross your fingers (mine are raw).
I thought I share with you my little “showing secret”.
I have a pretty decent AV setup. I’ve got a 52″ Samsung LCD TV that is mounted to the wall. I’ve also got DirecTV and an AppleTV setup. When we leave the house for a showing I switch to the AppleTV source, the screen saver for it is great. It shows Album covers floating across the screen. Very clean, very cool and it really pops on the 52″.
This weekend I had an idea. I made a Playlist called “Home Selling Mix”
Here are the songs on the Playlist:
Home
Michael Bublé
Long Way Home
Norah Jones
Home Life
John Mayer
A House is not a home
Luther Vandross
Home
Daughtry
Home
Foo Fighters
Beautiful Homes
Chris Isaak
Happy Home
Paula Cole
***For some reason I didn’t have Motley Crue’s “Home Sweet Home” on my Mac.****
Now when I leave the house for the showing I have music playing at a lower volume, so just slightly in the background as the REALTOR takes the buyers around the house they hear the word “home…home….home..home…home”
File this under “Subliminal Showing Techniques” or SST as I’m going to call it.
Love to hear anyone’s suggestions for adding to my Playlist or you can tell me just to go bake chocolate chip cookies like everyone else.
I just got a email from Inman News announcing…
“Friday, Sept. 12, is the last day to submit your nominations for the annual Inman News 100 Most Influential Real Estate Leaders and 25 Most Influential Real Estate Bloggers lists.”
So if you love Vendor Alley or any other blog get over to Inman and make a nomination.
(Sean/Puff Daddy/Puffy/P. Diddy/Diddy)
Just picked this up on my Twitter-feed. It appears that NAR has come up with a new name for it’s Gateway, Property Channel, Library, etc…
Drumroll please….
RPR
Realtor Property Resource
thx Sam
John Mosey of NorthStarMLS will be hosting this year’s Council of MLS Conference in Minneapolis, MN
CMLS is the best MLS conference of the year and it looks like John has put together a great agenda. I think it’s the first conference I’ve been to that includes lawn bowling, nice!!
If you haven’t registered for the event remember you must be a member of CMLS to attend the event. To join CMLS click here.
To register for CMLS 2008 Conference click here.
See you there!!!
VendorAlley.com hit a new milestone in August 2008. Attracting more visitors than any other month since starting back in February 2007.
The biggest story in August was Gregg Petch Leaving MRIS with The Problem With Young People Today at a close second.
Thanks to everyone for making this happen!
Word on the street is that RE/MAX International has re-signed another multi-year deal with eNeighborhoods. eNeighborhoods is the chief technology solution provider behind the popular remax.com site. Currently remax.com is the most visited website of any real estate brokerage brand. eNeighborhoods is owned by Dominion Enterprises.
Recently RE/MAX announced that 5 million leads had been passed thru remax.com to RE/MAX Associates around the country. Quite a feat since the site just launched only 2 and half years ago.
eNeighborhoods seems to have this space locked up. They are also building similar services for all the Realogy brands, (Century21.com, ColdwellBanker.com, and ERA.com) which should be launching in the near future.
Takes talent to get these types of big deals done. Both on the deal side and the tech side. Congrats!
