1) What’s Wrong with the New Good Faith Estimate? – The government once again trying to “protect consumers” has made things a lot worse. Rhonda lays it out here.

2) Homeowner Benefits of Real Estate Short Sales – Kristal continues her short sales series on taking a look at the benefits of sellers doing short sales.

3) Luxury Real Estate Marketing: Find an Underserved Market Space – Good advice for anyone who is still trying to discover what they want for their niche market.

4) Strategic defaults scenario – “Everyone is doing it” – I had a call on just this subject yesterday. For some people it just makes to much sense not to do it.

5) Negative Amortization to the Rescue- Fred Glick on CNBC – This is a great discussion on what to do about healing the housing system as soon as possible.

6) Make Over $150K a Year? Excellent! Here’s a Strategy For You – Looking for real estate investment advice, there are few that give it better than Jeff Brown. Never  light read.

7) Seller Subsidy or Seller Paid Closing Costs: Friend or Foe? – Good post on is it offensive to ask for seller to help pay some closing costs?

8) Fannie and Freddie Get Unlimited Financial Backing – What is one more bailout?

9) Winds on the Horizon: Why Mobile Will Matter – I don’t think there is a real estate blog out there right now that makes you think more than 100watt blog. Here is their latest post which talks about the future, which is really the present.

10) Google Real Estate Search – New Trend Away from MLS Based IDX – Now things will start getting real interesting.

1) Realtor Property Resource (RPR) & you – A call to action – It’s been a fun week in the real estate community thanks to RPR, this won’t be the last day it dominates the top posts. Here is a video from Greg Cooper asking for input.

2) In which I announce the death of RPR – Rob Hahn has been in the forefront of the RPR discussion for the past week and has been a must read. Here he talks about how RPR may never likely get off the ground if the MLS companies do not play ball.

3) Liveblogging Dale Ross and Marty Frame presenting RPR to the MLS Executive Session – Not able to attend NAR and get the blow-by-blow, Rob took care of it for you.

4) Home energy audit finds holes in home – Want to save money? Find out where your home is being inefficient.

5) 33 quality touches for real estate agents – Ever read Gary Keller’s book “The Millionaire Real Estate Agent” and think touching someone 33 times in a year may be overkill? Here is a way to do it with today’s modern technology.

6) Middle-market is next home segment to improve – Does the start of the new $6500 tax credit for move up buyers mean the mid-priced homes are the next to start to rebound?

7) 2009 National Association of Realtors profile of home buyers and sellers just released – Everything you always wanted to know about buyers and sellers in 2009, including 90% now start their home buying search online.

8 ) Video gets real estate agents more listings: WellcomeMat report – Video is overtaking photos as the thing consumers want to see.

9) New tool to estimate closing costs when selling your home – Want to understand how much money you may need to bring to closing, this will give you a good estimate.

10) Jumbo loan modifications: The role of mortgage insurance – Justin McHood gives you a better understanding of Jumbo loans and mortgage insurance.

1) Should you switch to electronic signatures? – I made the switch myself in January and have not looked back.

2) Please explain closing costs!!! – A good three minute video on what closing costs are.

3) Talking mortgage rates to 6 percent, FHA Streamlines and the First Time home buyer tax credit extension – Dan Green takes questions on Twitter and answers them in this video.

4) Closed door or open house? – A mathematical look at open houses, are they worth it?

5) Professional relationships with your friends are tricky – The problem with working with friends and family. I also a similar did one yesterday on what to do if you want to fire your real estate agent.

1) Closing costs should not be hidden – No home buyer should be surprised about closing costs, their lender should have covered it with them before closing.

2) “Leading” with listings, systematically getting (a few clicks) from Twitter, and using some lazy math to justify the effort… – Interesting idea on a Twitter ID for each listing.

3) Shar, I’ll take a safe neighborhood for $200k, please – Fair Housing, always a popular subject.

4) Mortgage rates are now as low as newspapers are reporting – It’s hard to write a story about mortgage rates when they change 4 times a day.

5) How much house can you afford? – New app helps you answer that question.

Top 5 posts of the day for 6/8/20091) Why real estate agents should stop playing loan officer – This may be the best post I have read in a week. Mark Madsen does a great job in summarizing the loan process and how we agents can help ourselves, our lenders and our buyers. Buyers and agents should both have this as required reading.

2) How the government can fix the “foreclosure crisis” – We all know Jay Thompson does great work, but this may be my favorite piece he ever wrote. Jay want to run for Governor, I will come out of retirement and manage your campaign.

3) Get e-mail alerts when mortgage rates drop – Zillow has a new tool that will e-mail home buyers when the mortgage rates drop. Seems like it could be a great tool for buyers, just remember not all loans or lenders have the same rate.

4) Trustee’s sale foreclosure process – Newbie blogger Brian Kingdeski does a good job at explaining the foreclosure process in states with trustee sales.

5) Cost of buying a property: It’s more then than down payment – Do you know what costs are included in a closing. Here is a list of some of the charges a buyer may expect to see.