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2009
"If you thought REALTORs were behind the learning curve in Web 2.0, you should see the lenders" If you're a loan originator, on Active Rain, congratulations. There are some 300,000 working loan originators today and I'm guessing that about 1% of us are actively using social media. Certainly, th...
02/26/2009
I was really looking forward to Jeff's post today about "content ownership". It's obvious that I feel this is an important issue. I wanted to highlight some of the salient points I made the other day but the Terms of Service forbid me to parse from "Members Only" posts and republish them in a p...
02/23/2009
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I wrote this about two years ago. It won a couple of Carnivals: Carnival of Real Estate, hosted here on Active Rain Carnival of Real Estate Investing, hosted by Agent Shopper It was a lot of fun to write and a pretty good read (if I say so myself). While I've written informational blog posts, o...
02/17/2009
I’ve written a ton about Scenius scenes, but, until lately, we’ve kept the scene creation praxis fairly close to our vests. I had documented the process very early for the folks who were involved in the original discussion of the Scenius idea, then shared that video how-to with other folks by em...
02/16/2009
Some coverage of the BHBUnchained and Seattle REBar camp Video clips of Redfin.com CEO Glenn Kelman from the BloodhoundBlog Unchained preview event in Seattle Living that Seattltude: Bloodhounds listening above the Sound The barcamp event this past Friday (2/13/09) in Seattle at Zillow HQ was an ...
02/15/2009
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Down payment requirements, for mortgage loan programs, have increased over the past 12-18 months. Here are some examples: FHA hiked the statutory down payment to 3.5% Piggy-back mortgages, using second liens, are all but dead. Conventional loans, with down payments of less than 20%, require pr...
02/13/2009
Mortgage rates look to trend up in the next week or so. Ambiguity about the spending/stimulus bill, combined with a massive borrowing effort by the Government, is making it difficult for mortgage rates to stay below 5%. Economic data are still bleak and that should act as a ceiling for mortgage...
02/13/2009
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