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Greg Swann, created another interesting post Bloodhound Blog: Supplanting the National Association of Realtors will turn it into a toothless vampire overnight Greg's post was triggered by another call of the Minnesota Association of Realtors for some of its members to quit to give other members ...

 Have you thought what would happen to your neighborhood real estate market if Countrywide would stop making loans?  How dependent are buyers in your area on loans from Countrywide? Have you thought about that?  I had a discussion with my appraiser friend, Michael. He specializes in the Northern...

As we will be adding posts about Peninsula cities, we will update this directory help vistors to find them:Why Is Burlingame, CA So Desirable? Why is Burlingame, CA so desirable? More reasons and more facts.The reasons you might want to live in Millbrae, CA Is there anything special about San Mat...

A few days ago I published a post "Is your income below $12,000 per year?" As Caleb decided not to feature it because it might weaken AR's chances to be acquired by Realtor.com in the near future (just joking Caleb - I know that you don't select featured posts - it is all done by "NAR controlled ...

Jim Walker (look up also his Trulia Voice profile) published the following question/request on Trulia Voice earlier today: Agents! Do you know what Nadel's 4 questions are? Read his 66 page polemic to learn to defend yourselves.  For those who don’t know, Mr. Nadel is an attorney/policy adviser w...

Can you share a price, address and picture of the most expensive luxury condos in your area?  I would like to create a list of 10 the most expensive condos in the US.  Can you help?  Thank you! And it should be fun for everyone to see it. Here is a current listing in San Francisco: http://tinyur...

                                                        Pete, did you really do that?  Are you familiar with Trulia Voices? According to the information on the Trulia’s website it is a place for “real questions & answers from people like you”. For last few weeks I became a frequent visitor to th...

As an eager student of Active Rain I asked AR Customer Service a few times regarding the rules guiding Featured Posts.  How are they selected, who selects them and who selects the selectors.  To my surprise, I have never received an answer. To my surprise - as Active Rain staff is usually very go...

Reading Instructions: If you are a NAR member, please take your “NAR hat” off and read this post as an individual. This post does not intend to offend anyone. Many of you feel strongly on this subject on either side of the issue and I certainly respect it. I will tell you when it is time to put ...

As I mentioned in my post “Can Zillow Annihilate Realtors?”, Zillow is planning to launch agent ranking system.  This is really what I wanted to talk about, but somehow I drifted to prospects of our annihilation by Zillow. Do clients need to find out how agent ranks by accessing Zillow (or any o...