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.