1) A Realtor’s® life in song – My new favorite Christmas song. Great find Elaine.
2) My "Ideal" Home Purchase Time Line – Rhonda and I agree that is very important for a home buyer who will be financing their home to talk to a mortgage professional. The challenge is knowing who a good loan officer who can get a loan closed is vs someone who works for a big box company who has no desire to really close the deal on time.
3) Making an Offer on a Short Sale in the Phoenix Real Estate Market – Great advice from Jonathan Dalton on how to structure a short sale offer. If you do make an offer that is below what the market comps are you need to be ready to come up when/if the bank says to low or you may be wasting a lot of time.
4) Who You Gonna Call, Part 2: What it Means – Rob always gets you to think, Interestingly enough, most of what we in the RE.net spend our time talking about — the marketing, superior technology, social media awareness, etc. — do not appear at the top of the list for realtors who select other realtors to sell their own homes. What does? Trustworthiness. In that sense, professional realtors are no different than layman consumers.
5) 12 Days Of Christmas – Mortgage Edition – In the spirit of Christmas I am not going to point out how horrible the singing is in this entertaining video.
6) Video Might Not Kill the Blog Star, But It’s Pretty Cool – Is 2010 finally going to be the year of video? I think so, so read this post and start filming.
7) Coming In 2010: Standardized Good Faith Estimate AND Updated Settlement Statement (HUD-1) – This post has the actual pdf of both forms.
8) Short Sale Predictor: Look for 2 Green Stars – What Frank does with his site and more importantly what he has done with his Frankly MLS is amazing.
9) Three Actions To Close out December- Real Estate Training – How do we know video is getting more popular? There are 5 in today’s Top 10, and one more post about videos. In this one Tom Ferry lays out three things you can do right now to get ready for the new year.
10) Advice for My East Coast Friends. Move to Phoenix! – This from Jay Thompson is for my friends back on the east coast… it really is that nice here.
