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Zillow Takes Step Towards Democratizing Home Prices

by Joshua Dorkin | September 20, 2006

Starting today, Zillow is allowing its users to get their say in what homes are worth by allowing them to enter their own price estimates alongside the site’s proprietary Zestimates. Apparently the move was in response to feedback from the users of the site.

I’ve heard much debate about the accuracy of the Zestimates, both [...]

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Blogs

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

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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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 Tips

House Values Looks to Motivate Real Estate Professionals

by Joshua Dorkin | August 29, 2006

HouseValues announced the launch of a new podcast today, known as the “Daily Motivator“. This 2-3 minute audio piece will be designed to help real estate professionals by producing segments including: motivational info, success tips and stories, marketing help, etc. According to the press release, examples of tips include:
– How One Agent [...]

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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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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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Cool Stuff

Cool Tool for Finding Market Rents – RentSlicer

by Joshua Dorkin | August 4, 2006

Reading the Dollar Fun Blog, I came upon a great tool for landlords. RentSlicer is a pretty good mashup “Web 2.0″ site that integrates Google Maps and listings from Craigslist. The site extracts data to provide average market rents for an area. The site has many cool features, like breaking down average [...]

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Real Estate Tools

Finding Mortgage Limits on FHA Loans

by Joshua Dorkin | August 2, 2006

I just found a cool tool from HUD (US Department of Housing and Urban Development) that lets you determing the mortgage limits for FHA loans in any area.
Try the: FHA Mortgage Limits Page

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