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Successful Real Estate Blogging Follow Up: St.Paul Real Estate Blog

by Joshua Dorkin | September 16, 2006

Teresa Boardman, creator of the St. Paul Real Estate Blog, recently commented on our post Using Blogs to Build Your Real Estate Related Business, saying how she loves what her blog has done for her business. There is a reason that she is finding success blogging . . . she’s got a fantastic blog. [...]

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Blogs

Using Blogs to Build Your Real Estate Related Business

by Joshua Dorkin | September 14, 2006

Blogs can be very effective communication tools for people in all areas of real estate. Real Estate Agents, Lenders, Investors and other professionals in this field can all benefit from blogging. Here’s a few ways to add to your success by blogging.
First, I wanted to mention a few important keys:
- Focus on [...]

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Blogs

The Housing Bubble Bloggers 2006

by Joshua Dorkin | September 11, 2006

What Happens to All the Real Estate Bubble Bloggers When Housing Prices Level Out?
I know it seems like an obvious question, but maybe not. There are some very popular real estate blogs whose sole purpose is to share news about the housing bubble.
Here is a list of the 12 best housing bubble blogs:

Bubble [...]

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Blogs

BiggerPockets Exclusive: Sneak Preview of Real Estate Website Realivent

by Joshua Dorkin | September 11, 2006

I’m not sure how I originally heard about the Realivent site, but there was something tempting about a site that “is looking for beta testers.” A few weeks ago I filled out their tester sign-up form, and on Saturday, was admitted into their Beta program. After filling out a simple registration form, I [...]

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Landlord Tenant

Problem Free Housing Rental & For Sale Posting to Online Classified Sites

by Joshua Dorkin | September 9, 2006

Results for Realtors posted yesterday about a new Free site that helps you to post your classified listings to multiple sites, called Postlets. This site lets you post your property for sale or for rent at backpage, craigslist, edgeio, Google Base, HotPads, LiveDeal, Oodle, Propsmart, and Vast, and the best part is that you [...]

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Commentary

Web 2.0 + Rental Property Management = RentYield.com

by Joshua Dorkin | September 2, 2006

“An online base rental property management software that works like a desktop software.

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Interest Rates

Introducing the 0.25% Mortgage Loan

by Joshua Dorkin | September 1, 2006

LEI Financial, a mortgage lender in California and Arizona is launching a new mortgage program that is unlike anything I’ve heard of, offering 0.25% Interest Rates.
According to LEI, “This loan gives the borrower a fixed interest rate of .25% for the first five years. The borrower pays the interest only for their monthly minimum [...]

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Foreclosures

How to Find Foreclosure and Pre-Foreclosure Listings

by Joshua Dorkin | September 1, 2006

There are several basic methods that you can use to find foreclosures or pre-foreclosures:
1. Search Public Records:
In various stages of the foreclosure process, notices are recorded with the County Clerk at your County Recorder’s Office. This information is public record and is available to anyone. Just visit your county’s office and you [...]

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Real Estate Resources

Disappointment with Prosper.com

by Joshua Dorkin | August 25, 2006

Shaun gives us another update about his dealings with Prosper.com, and expresses his disappointment with the lending website.
I’ve noticed now that they have added a new feature called “Community Payment” which I’m not sure I like. The concept is simple: if a member of a group is behind on payments, other group members can chip [...]

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Blogs

Top 35 Real Estate Blogs

by Joshua Dorkin | August 25, 2006

Update 5/20/09: We’ve again gone through the list and killed off the dead links, as well as those blogs that either a) are rarely updated, b) no longer serve content deemed amongst the best. We also published a follow up post, dubbed The Top 35 Real Estate Blogs Revisited almost 3 Years Later, where [...]

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Foreclosures

Will the Soft Housing Market Cause Online Real Estate Sites to Crash & Burn

by Joshua Dorkin | August 24, 2006

As things cool off in the housing market, many companies will be affected to the downside. It goes without saying that major corporations like the home builders, home improvement centers, and others will see the bottom line affected to the downside. At the same time, there are a few companies and individuals out [...]

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Cool Stuff

BiggerPockets Integrates Real Estate Valuation Tool from Zillow.com

by Joshua Dorkin | August 16, 2006

We at BiggerPockets.com are excited to announce that we’ve joined forces with Zillow.com in an effort to continue to bring helpful tools and resources to the real estate community. Today we are launching a new tool Powered by Zillow, to help users determine the value of their Property as well as find comparable home [...]

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Real Estate Resources

Interesting Real Estate Tidbits

by Joshua Dorkin | July 23, 2006

I wanted to share some interesting stories, so check ‘em out!
- A Great Foreclosure, Doesn’t Mean A Great Home – this article is important for one reason, the following advice:

Before you place your first bid some things you should do:
1. A title search. Find out if there are any outstanding liens or claims.
2. A drive [...]

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Real Estate Resources

Think You Have What it Takes to Rehab Houses?

by Joshua Dorkin | July 18, 2006

For all of you who want to be a rehabber, I found the article for you:
Flipping Houses: A Messy Business, written by the Fliperati, shows exactly why flipping isn’t for everyone, especially you neat freak, germaphobes. Lots of fun pics for everyone to see. The blog seems pretty cool too as it details [...]

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Real Estate Resources

Real Estate Investing Podcasts

by Joshua Dorkin | May 22, 2006

Just letting everyone know that we just added a Directory of Real Estate Podcasts to BiggerPockets.com! Stop by and listen to informative real estate podcasts online, or download the broadcasts to your portable mp3 player.If you know of any good investing related podcasts, let us know!

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