Matt Fagioli

Recently, I was able to witness the filming of Kevin's rant that ultimately lead to his plans to run for NAR president. This was filmed at Inman SF connect last month. In Kevin's defense, there was a good bit of encouragement involved.

Dear Jon & Matt & "Y'all at AR" Thanks for sending me the fantastic prize for breaking the huge barrier at 10,000 points!  It feels amazing to go from complete obscurity and move toward only slightly less obscurity.  An amazing accomplishment really.  I won't spend it all in one place, don't worr...

I've just started a series of posts about "How to Start Your Own Brokerage" (man, I've been slow to post this past 2 weeks!) It doesn't matter if you are starting a brokerage or not, accurately defining (and knowing) your hyper-local target market is critical If you want to go back to the beginni...

(read step zero first) So, you want to step out on your own (or atleast you are considering the idea) Let's get several steps done in one day (though it might take you months or years to do it in real life) Step 1 = Decide to do it Step 2 = Make a plan Step 3 = Define your unique selling proposit...

This post is actually just the pre-cursor to a set of posts to be released in the next few weeks.  I'll link back to this post from the future content so that you can find the background and the basis for the series. If you've seen any of my posts in recent weeks, you know that Diamond Dwellings ...

If you have not made plans yet to be at Inman Connect later this month, you just really missing it. What ever you spend to get out there, you'll surely double or triple it with something awesome that you learn there. I can't say enough about it. It's just THE number one RE technology event of the...

This morning I received a group mail from an Active Rain group moderator. I read in his "tone" that he was a bit frustrated (this may have to do with other things besides blogging -- but I digress...) In his note, he explained that there is "precious little" that you can do ON SITE in terms of SE...

I've been meeting lots of new people lately (new business partners for Diamond Dwellings, etc)When we meet, they are evaluating me to decide if they believe what I'm saying, etc.I'm doing the same thing to them -- evaluating them and deciding if I believe them.Every time we meet someone new, we ...

It's Sunday morning & I'm pushing toward the half-way point of my 30 day "blogathon".Everything I've written so far about our business philosophy & strategy has been sort of "all business".The constant truth however is that I believe (and so goes Diamond Dwellings) -- I believe that Jesus is the ...

Before I even get started, I have to give credit to Miamism for the image above.  Not sure if they created it or "borrowed it", but I thought is was super cool.  Thanks guys!  Hope to meet you if you are going to SF Connect. To the point... Most of us here, on Active Rain, would really love to h...