Ken Horst's (khorst) Blog

Recently Agentopolis started a Twitter page which has become very popular and given us a strong second wind in this age of social media.  Agentopolis has added roughly 7500 followers in the past 60 days, a combination of Realtors and home buyers and sellers.  As a result, we have seen a nice lift...

Wade Ryan of Remax Results in Eden Prairie, Minnesota has been providing local home buyers with mls listings information as way to generate home buyers leads for quite awhile.  Using a couple of different real estate sites that focus on both map based search and simply mls listings search, Wade h...

Real estate agent directory Agentopolis hit two milestones last night on Twitter.  We reached 4,000 followers and we passed Trulia on www.wefollow.com.  Twitter is fast becoming one of the top sources of traffic for the Agentopolis directory with more and more of our visitors also spending time o...

  Smart consumers are discovering that they can find an real estate agent site that provides free access to the local MLS listings by state.  A growing trend in broker reciprocity MLS sites, as indicated by our Google analytics report, is people looking for map based MLS Search, and as you night ...

Not that there is anything funny about the state of real estate today BUT, this video parody could not be any funnier.  This is a must see for anyone who has had anything to do with real estate in the past few years.  Enjoy and be sure to share this with any of your real estate buddies!   Real Es...

Is it just me or is anybody else getting sick and tired of seeing one of these two words in every other headline?  There was a time when the word "Surge" or "Plunge" in a headline related to the stock market meant something but lately, with the market making dramatic redirects every other day, th...

The Internet is vast and full of possibilities and if we don't know how to ask for what we want, the Internet can prove to be time consuming and frustrating.  The biggest thing to keep in mind about the net is that almost every piece of information you need is on the net and available, you just h...

It's hard to know these days what is the cause for the decrease in traffic to mls listing sites, real estate and homes for sale sites.  Generally this is a slower time of the year for people looking to buy real estate but if you factor in the current state of the economy, the pending $700 billion...

It's been a long time coming but MLS Maps has finally made the first page of Googles search results for the term "mls listings".  Not only that but today we cracked the top 5 for that term and as a result our traffic has more than tripled.  In addition to mls listings, www.MLSmaps.com  is also wo...

Boy, don't think for a minute that we are out of the woods on this mortgage mess.  The latest reminder of our sins-of-the-past is the government bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  Once considered unthinkable the feds are now saying they will step in and all but take over these two mortgage g...