Here is today’s list of top real estate posts of the day.

1) Splash: the key to better real estate branding – Great advice on branding as always from Marc.  Don’t tell them you are the best, show them you are the best and they will come to the conclusion you want.

2) Brokers’ rights to control uses of their data and the RPR license agreement – The RPR-MLS-Broker discussion is quite interesting. If RPR cannot get all the data in the MLS their service will not be nearly as impressive as if they have all the data. If MLS’s do not provide the data brokers could do so. But again, this is only beneficial if all the major broker’s agree to it.

3) Using Local Forums To Generate Real Estate Leads – Most agents are always looking for new ideas, new marketing or farming techniques. Here is one that is easy and free to do.

4) Paragliding Must-See – Who doesn’t want to find a new way to market their home? Of course everyone does! Here is one that is sure to turn a few heads. Somehow I do not think we will be seeing it much.

5) Improvements nobody thinks of… – Looking for some low cost improvements, here are a few that will improve any house!

6) CUSTOMER SERVICE DOESN’T EQUAL ACCESSIBILITY – How many full-time agents take the advice in this post? I bet you not more than a handful. I know myself and most of the agents I am friends with do  not. But I think we should.

7) Who Says MLS Photos Aren’t Important? – WOW… you need to check this out. Want a nice video of your listing, but not good with video? I love this!

8) Buyer Sues Over Secondhand Smoke – And now for something completely different… This is so bizarre I had to Google it to make sure it was real before posting. How does this even make it to a court room?

9) Raising the Bar (#RTB) Starts Here for REALTORS – This all sounds wonderful, but when you have goals such as “Improve the competency and professionalism” or “Support and enhance the relationship between Realtors and consumers” what the heck does that really mean. All I see is language someone came up with with no meaning, but to maybe justify their job position?

10) The www.CondoGo.com iPhone App with Mortgage Calculator is Now Available for FREE on iTunes – Talk about big time! @IanWatt has been one of the leaders in real estate technology. He now even has his own iPhone app.

1) Don’t fall into the trap – Good planning is where it’s at – It is that time of year where as business owners and managers we should be thinking about our goals and objectives for 2010. There are some good tips here, not to get started on mine.

2) Turn off the Real Estate Muzak and demand perfection – I never thought I could learn anything from Michael Jackson that would help my real estate career. Marc Davison shows me I was wrong.

3) A ReTechulous real estate office website live chat approach – I have a live chat on my site, but will be updating it now that I have read this with a the Gmail approach.

4) Do your leads in your database have value? – I have hundreds of leads in my database, and in the past week I started going through all of them get a real pulse for them. This post hits on exactly what I have been doing, and in less than a week I have already seen a change in my business.

5) Luxury real estate branding: Connecting through emotional branding – a good illustration on how branding can move an emotional chord in someone and if you miss that emotion, your branding may fail.

6) Congress poised to keep homebuyers’ tax credit – Despite my repeated objections to extending the program it is looking more and more everyday like the $8000 first-time homebuyer tax credit will be extended. Guess Congress doesn’t watch my videos.

7) 5 reasons every agent needs a Facebook page – I have been working on my Facebook presence of late by checking out what Mike Mueller is doing, some of his customization work is amazing and makes you feel like you are not even on Facebook. The video at the bottom is very helpful.

8 ) Forget everything you know about social media and Google – The new Google Social Search should be effecting the way you use social media.

9) Newsweek: Foreclosures spread to middle class – Reading the whole Newsweek story it is interesting to see one persons perspective on the foreclosure crisis starting with bad loans, then unemployment in wave two and now speculation we will be moving into a third wave of adjustable rate mortgages coming due.

10) Staging with storage – Whether it is the kid’s toys or dad’s much larger toys, they need to be kept organized when you are selling your house.