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Active Rain- 20 Suggestions for Raising The Ceiling & Being More than it is! As I participate more and more at Active Rain, I find myself wanting more from Active Rain.  Jonathan Washburn recently asked the question "How Can Active Rain Be More Than Itself".  If you haven't read it yet - I sugges...

I've been blogging a lot about short sales lately.  It seems everywhere I turn I am meeting people who have lost a job, fell ill or just can't afford their home anymore. Everyone has an opinion about why we are in this situation.  It's the lenders fault.  It's the homeowners fault.  It's the Feds...

When I first heard about meme's I dreaded the inevitable blog chain letter! Yes, that's how I thought of it.  But now that I've been Memed by Anthony Clark - I think it's kinda cool.   Did you know there is an actor named Anthony Clark who was in the movie Killing Cinderella? The first thing I di...

  Tonight I am going to see VAN HALEN!  I am so excited, I can hardly contain myself!  I've always been a big fan of Van Halen since high school.  Now, David Lee Roth is back with the band!  Unfortunately, Michael Anthony is not - but Eddies son Wolfgang will be taking his place - 3 Van Halens an...

Looking for a fresh start -a new image, an exciting logo? One of the easiest ways to get variety of logo options is to post a project at Elance.com Elance is a place where business people post projects that need to be completed - and service providers bid on the job. I have used elance twice to c...

Have you ever gotten an incoming contact/email from someone on active rain and clicked on it from your home page?  It's a dead end.  You can't do anything with it.  You are stuck in the mud, lost in the wilderness - within a few hours you might die from starvation! When you read an incoming conta...

Lately I have been obsessed with Active Rain. My obsession didn't take hold at first, I was a member for a couple months before I even realized what to do with it. But once it took - I was hooked. But why? I've joined other social sites and never really been interested to the degree I am at Activ...

Real Estate Bloggers: Market Yourself For Free! We spend a lot of time on our blogs, we anxiously wait for the Google gods to pay attention and move our blog up in the search results. We hope customers will visit us in droves and buy or sell real estate with us. Why not give them a little push? P...

As of March 27th of this year, the MRED LLC, formerly the MLS of Northern Illinois, added a tag to allow REALTORS to identify closed transactions as short sales. The small (S) you see next to the sale price denotes it was a short sale. This is important information for REALTORS, Buyers and Selle...

I was so excited yesterday after implementing my first mobile property info service for a listing that I started to think about other tools available for the mobile consumer and/or agent. Typically, mobile content will be in demand by a younger more tech savvy audience. If you are an agent at eas...