1) Anatomy of a government-abated fraud: Why Indymac/OneWest always forecloses – WOW… As someone who has recently been working on a short sale with Indymac this actually explains a lot!
2) Keys to Short Sale Success – A short but very informative post on the keys to a successful short sale.
3) Project Wordpress: Preferred Plugins – You a Wordpress blogging Realtor? Then you will want to check this out for some great plugin suggestions. I even learned about a few that I will be trying.
4) New real estate settlement HUD-1 on the way – Good news for home buyers and sellers, starting January 1 the new HUD statement is going to make things much clearer and protect you more.
5) Grey is Every Theory, Green is the Tree of Life – Proof you can never please everyone. Other things to consider with Case-Shiller is the numbers give a good review of the national housing market, but when it comes to buying or selling your house all real estate is local.
6) Do Cute E-Cards Really Work? – If the e-cards are successful and more people turn to them, then will they become less successful as our inboxes get full?
7) Five Ways to Use GeoMeme For Your Real Estate Business – Do you consider yourself a Realtor 2.0 type? Have you got comfortable with the word “Geo” yet? If not you may end up being behind the curve in the web 3.0 world coming next year.
8) Lend America Slapped by FHA, Closes Their Doors – As Justin McHood has been predicting for a while, another independent mortgage originator down the drain.
9) “Productizing” the Realtor mind – As always Brian Boero nails it on the head, accurate automated housing values, if can be made accurate that is, are bad news for Realtors.
10) Some Predict Recovery With News of Rising Pending Home Sales – Pending sales up 9 months in row, can it really continue in 2010?
