1) Real estate tip – Increase your price! Shhh – It’s a secret! – Is your house not being found by the online shoppers you may want? Could be because you need to raise your price $1 or $100. With today’s Internet shoppers this is great advice.

2) Capturing the hallway conversations at NAR – Interesting idea to follow this week. Will be a neat opportunity for us who may have the flu and won’t be able to make it without infecting others.

3) Planning business habits – Your next 90 days – It takes 28 days to form a habit and 60 days to see the results, what are you going to do that is habit forming to get those results in 90 days?

4) NAR National property data soup will not be shared with public – There still seem to be so many questions on the NPR. Should be a fun weekend in San Diego.

5) How much do real estate agents make? – I know you wanted to keep it in the closet and not let the general public know about the millions we agents make, but Jay lets it out of the bag.

6) The real estate paper storm and the IRS Form 4506-T – We have gone from one extreme to the other with loans, now you need to disclose everything and give lenders access to your tax records.

7) Reach out, connect, be careful and other worthless advice – Some really good advice on finishing the year strong and keeping it rolling.

8 ) Dave Ramsey tells you whether he’d use a real estate agent or not – Dave Ramsey, who is famous for doing everything he can to save a buck talks about how one thing he would not do is put something up as for sale by owner. If you are a seller, this is worth a listen.

9) A question: LPS, Marketing and RPR – Rob is starting a series of posts that ask questions about the RPR service.

10) Writer debut: NAR should require fraud prevention education – There is a lot of fraud going on with the first-time home buyer tax credit, are Realtors responsible for some of it?

1) A bit about a taboo subject – Interesting post should make for good discussion on commission splits.

2) Top nine things I learned at BlogWorld – We look forward to the longer posts Rob. And Daniel had his own version of 5 things he learned from BlogWorld, obviously he learned to use pictures of people who make him look good.

3) Make sure your home looks as good as your photos – Good point, not only get great photos taken, but then make sure the home looks that good when it comes time to show.

4) Transactions vs. having a business – Chris Johnson is becoming a must read blogger. Another great one on customer service and having a business.

5) The First Time Home Buyer tax credit and tax return audits – Really? Using it could cause an audit?

1) Do you really want to use that Internet lender? Please say it isn’t so! – This is one of the best ways I have heard anyone explain why a buyer should consider using one of a Realtor’s preferred lenders.

2) Have you compared the 15-year fixed rate mortgage to the 30-year mortgage lately? – A lot has changed in the last year including an even bigger difference in the 15 vs 30 year mortgage rates.

3) Random thoughts in search of facts – Interesting post on how banks are punishing investors when they should be embracing them.

4) Happy New Year! Welcome to 2010! Part 1 – It’s not to early to start thinking about a business plan for next year.

5) Brand loyalty: Is there such a thing? – Some people are loyal to certain things like Coke or Pepsi, but what about real estate brands?

1) FHA Q&A: Addressing the Taylor, Bean & Whitaker shutdown – The TB&W shutdown was the big news in real estate over the last week.

2) An extrapolation of epic government involvement – Health care, auto industry, lending, why not a government takeover of real estate brokerages next.

3) Working “on” or “in” your business – Sometimes we need to step back and take a look at our real estate business. This is a good start.

4) Future of mobile real estate – Augmented reality – This is pretty cool technology.

5) 37 steps toward becoming a 1.5 real estate agent – Looking to improve your business both online and off line. Here is a long list of ideas to implement.