1) Congress Screams Bloody Murder About HAMP Program – Lani to answer your question it is ironic not noble. I just did a quick search and couldn’t find it, wish I could find the video of him leading the effort to make home ownership “more affordable to more Americans.”

2) Roost.com Expands Into Eleven New Metro Regions – Here they grow again. Roost is quickly becoming one of the leaders in home search and IDX solutions.

3) JPMorgan: 200,000 HAMP Mods Offered, Only 2% Permanent – For those of you so psyched about the new short sale program recommendations I hope you are paying attention. I predict the success rate of those will be somewhere around the same as this joke of a program.

4) Mortgage Myth Busted : Mortgage Rates Don’t Take The Elevator Up And The Stairs Down (At Least Now, Anyway) – Strange how some myths sound great, but when analyzed with data just do not hold up.

5) Career Loyalty and Longevity, Do You Have What it Takes? – Congrats to Lesley Lambert, 20 years as a Realtor. Lesley shares why she has lasted so long.

6) Would you like my 2010 Calendar? – Are you an agent that likes to do calendars? Well here is a different take on it, using local pictures of the community that you take.

7) Trulia’s December Price Reduction Report – Home Price Reduction Levels Drop to 2009 Low – According to Trulia’s data 22% of U.S. homes on the market as of 12/1/2009 have had at least one price reduction, which is the lowest number since April 2009.

8) Real Estate Brokerage Websites – I Don’t Think We Are In Kansas Anymore – One broker looks at why blogging is such an important part of a web strategy for any broker.

9) Modifications are Failing…. (More on the Acronym Soup) – More reasons why the loan modifications are failing. I should consider doing a post on this too. I have been in the homes of people trying to help them get loan modifications to become permanent and some of the stories I have are amazing. I had one who had been working on it for two months, had sent in all the paperwork back in September and then late November they were told they had to start all over again at the beginning with another department because the bank had changed the way they handled process. Not that the lender would transfer the paperwork to the new department, they had to start all over again at square one. Redonkulous.

10) [Altos Research/Real IQ] November 2009: Listing Prices Down In 25 of 26 markets – Real time market stat updates on your site? I have been holding off jumping onto the Altos bandwagon. This may get me to jump.

1) Free consulting to Move, Inc – Should we pay more NAR services? Before you say no read the article, it is interesting, and the comments below are somewhat surprising.

2) Waste your money in the classifieds? – Taking a look at how good or bad of an investment classified ads are.

3) I can always tell we missed the mark the first week – Video from Ian Watt on how he knows if his listing is priced right in the first few days.

4) Thou shall not paint – Some interesting paint jobs.

5) Mortgage rate predictions – This week the group thinks they are going to remain mostly unchanged in the next 30 days.

1) Being a real estate agent is a stressful job? – Ok real estate can have some stressful moments, but one of the 10 most stressful jobs? I have had more stressful.

2) Are mortgage rates going up or down? – This week’s edition is an overwhelming “remain the same” although Dan Green says they will trend down over the next month.

3) Men and women buy homes differently? Venus and Mars again? – Imagine that, men and women are different, interesting survey results.

4) Is your Realtor cutting back on advertising this year? – Real estate agents appear to be cutting way back on advertising. When business is slow is that time to cut back?

5) Simple sidebar navigation – For our tech tip of the day Dave Smith look’s at Max Chirkov’s sidebar plugin. I have used it on other sites and it does rock!

Top 5 real estate posts of the day 6/19/20091) What you may be missing about a short sale – There are some major differences between a traditional sale and a short sale. Ardell takes a look at the difference using show charts.

2) We are looking to attract more listings without paying a lot of advertising expenses – Russell Shaw has some good advice on getting listings and it comes down to two things, marketing and prospecting. If you are not going to spend money on marketing, you need to be out meeting people and prospecting.

3) Curb appeal or web appeal – Ines looks at web appeal, is it the new curb appeal?

4) 10 things to look out for with bank-owned property contracts – Banks love to rewrite state contracts after you agree on a price, we really cannot do much about it either. We either accept their version or we look for a non-foreclosure. Danilo takes a look at some things to be careful about.

5) Buyer’s agents and ethics: Is your agent hiding houses from you? – This was pointed out to me last night after I had just got done showing a $60,000 house with a whopping $100 co-broke.