The Johnston Team

Are you an entrepreneur looking to found a startup? Have you been depressed by the price of real estate and startup cost in cities like Boston, Raleigh, and in the Silicon Valley? Why not consider New Orleans? I know, your first thought is 'New Orleans, the place I went to for Mardi Gras and Jazz...

6/24/09 UPDATE: Just got this link from SUPRA via their Facebook page. It appears the eKey for iPhone Basic will be released in August 2010 and the Pro version will follow in December 2010! UPDATE: for those of you waiting check out this post eKey on iPhone, finally! at GeekEstateBlog.com and eKE...

  UPDATE: I thought about this a bit more and realized that this is one of the things taught by Tim Ferriss the author of The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich . His philosophy is different in one huge way. He gives you a person, or several, to contact if you need ...

Recently ActiveRain did some updates that allowed you to browse the site, comment on blogs, and even blog post if you were using an iPhone. I had been doing all of those things, except posting because its painful typing on the iPhone, and then this morning I got a surprise. While reading my email...

I think that if you don't view this economic downturn as a opportunity to remake yourself and your business your in trouble. Take 30 minutes out of your day and WATCH THIS. If you don't have time bookmark it and watch it later.  My one take away from this is to stop making excuses that you don't ...

I have been waiting so long for this (Well since December 5, 2008. As long as I've had my iPhone). Personally I think that this is huge.It's true.  If you own an iPhone, you can now interact with the ActiveRain Real Estate Network of friends and business partners from anywhere your iPhone browser...

I've been thinking about doing this but the amount of technology it would require was going to make it difficult, if not impossible. Until now...   Check out this video    

I would definitely urge you to try this out, it couldn't hurt.In March 2008, - when we released the Google Street View integration for the RealBird single property websites -, we were fortunate to be presented as one of the a case studies on one of Google's own blogs. Even better, they linked to ...

One of the downsides, or upsides depending on how you look at it, of growing up as the son of a carpenter is that I see this see all this stuff when I look at a home. I pick apart new construction, notice severly outdated things in older homes, and start deducting dollars from the price the selle...

I think that this has pros and cons. While I want to raise the standards in the industry I'm not so sure that by raising the barrier to entry we wouldn't be eliminating some very good people. It probably would have a side effect that I wouldn't mind and that is that it could potentially make NAR ...