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What Real Estate Technology Do You Really Need When Starting Out?

by Tracy Royce June 13, 2013

I feel like every day I am compelled into reading another blog post about a piece of tech or software that is the “new new” of real estate. I can’t count how many CRM platforms I’ve been pitched, times I’ve been told my phone is too old, or received some email extolling the benefits of [...]

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Advantages of Excel’s Undo, Repeat and AutoRecover Timesavers

by Loretta Steele May 15, 2013

I have previously presented topics and features of Excel dealing with; Queries Linking and Embedding What if assumptions Worksheet viewing options Excel Tables Functions Charting Formatting In this post I will be covering some features that will help while working anywhere within Excel. These techniques will hopefully save you some time or could make Excel [...]

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Excel Can Do Queries – A Step by Step Guide

by Loretta Steele May 8, 2013

Spending time online searching for information is a common task today. Need to find information on how things work or recent developments in weight loss products, going online is usually the answer. Who hasn’t heard the phrase; “Google it…”? It seems that we can find anything on the web. It has become a great resource [...]

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The Many Ways of Viewing an Excel Worksheet

by Loretta Steele April 17, 2013

After you have created an Excel worksheet with all the appropriate formatting and correct formulas, what is left but to view the results. Just as there are many ways in which to format a worksheet, there are various ways to view that worksheet. Have you ever looked at someone else’s worksheet? Was it easy to [...]

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How to Use The Craigslist Map View To Reach More Tenants

by Brandon Turner January 9, 2013

Several months ago, Craigslist came out with a long-overdue feature for individuals looking to find rentals on the popular classifieds website: the Craigslist Map View. For those of you not familiar with Craigslist … please, go get familiar with it (Seriously? You aren’t using this!?) For everyone else, this post is going to look at [...]

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Sites Every Real Estate Investor & Property Manager Should Bookmark.

by Brenton Hayden December 14, 2012

Where can you go to get a handle on whether your investment properties will appreciate or where the best deals on distressed sales will be next year? How can you estimate what rents will be doing in your market next year? How do you handle a difficult tenant who’s late on rent and keeps threatening [...]

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Your Real Estate Command Station

by Clay Huber September 8, 2012

Efficiency is the name of the game. The less time you spend on a task, the more time you have to spend with family, friends, toys, vacations, etc. If you’ve read some of my other articles, you know that as a former engineer, I can’t help but be obsessive compulsive about making processes and tasks as efficient [...]

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6 Killer WordPress Plug-ins for your Real Estate Blog (Part 2)

by Shae Bynes October 1, 2010

In last week’s post, 8 Must Have WordPress Plug-ins for your Real Estate Blog, I provided a list of what I considered the bare essential plug-ins for every blog to have. There were several additional recommendations made within the comments, so I encourage you to check those out as well. Today, I’d like to do [...]

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8 Must Have WordPress Plugins for your Real Estate Blog

by Shae Bynes September 23, 2010

Many real estate entrepreneurs and professionals have started blogs for their businesses over the last few years which is a great way to engage clients and partners, build expertise, market services, and feature properties for sale (for wholesalers and realtors). One of the most popular platforms for blogs is WordPress and its very powerful thanks [...]

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Simplify Your Craigslist Searches & Marketing With SearchTempest

by Shae Bynes July 29, 2010

I’ve used Craigslist off and on for the past year to find buyers for properties, build a cash buyer’s list in my local area, and find motivated sellers to make offers to. The reason why I say “off and on” is because I could never find my groove and work Craigslist consistently. Mostly because I [...]

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How to Put Symbols in Craigslist Titles

by Justin McClelland July 26, 2010

For those of you who frequent Craigslist, I’m sure as your eyes have scoured the listings they were attracted to the ads that were in CAPS and the ads that had the graphic symbols included in them. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about take a look at the page below. I don’t know [...]

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Work Smart without Getting Carpal Tunnel: ShortKeys

by Justin McClelland July 1, 2010

In this tech post, I’d like to share a piece of software that I’ve been using for a few years now. I used it for years in the corporate world while working in a customer support center and now I use it all the time when responding to CraigsList Ads and composing emails. The software [...]

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The Top 20 Real Estate Investing Blogs

by Joshua Dorkin June 28, 2010

Our now famous list of the top 35 real estate blogs from August 2006 has been seriously withered down over the years; some of the blogs simply died out, while others lost focus, or quality. I thought it was high time that we updated this list by creating several sub-lists of top real estate blogs. The first of these is the current one, a list focused on real estate investing blogs.
The Top Real Estate Investing Blogs

To put this list together, we looked at close to 200 different blogs from both real estate investing-related companies and individual real estate investors. Here are a few things of note about the blogs selected:

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Using Google Maps to Save Time

by Stephani Davis June 10, 2010

As a real estate wholesaler, one of the websites I’ve grown increasingly fond of over the last year or so is Google Maps- particularly the “Street View” function they provide. In fact, unless I am already intimately familiar with the neighborhood where a potential deal is located, Google Maps is the first place I go [...]

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