1) A six year history of the RE.net – For those of us who were not blogging Realtor’s six years ago, but are active now may find as entertaining as I did. Then there is the abridged version.

2) Getting Serious about Lead Management – Let’s admit it, this is most of ours biggest weakness. I know this because many of the agents I talk to admit it to me.

3) Is Laser-Focused Prospecting Really Necessary? – Jennifer Allan is one of my favorites from my early days in real estate and the agentsonline.net crew. Her advice is always good for those who hate the pushy-salesmany approach many take.

4) Treasury Updates HAMP Guidelines, Might the Program Work Now? – So HAMP was a failure, and these new guidelines should streamline the failure in the future to must make it quicker. When can we stop with all this feel-good bs and get down to something that would really work to fix the housing crisis.

5) Apple’s iPad means big changes ahead for real estate – The potential here is mind-blowing. Imagine if they released this with camera and on any network and able to run on either 3G or wi-fi like the iPhone does. Tell me this would not be the hottest selling gadget maybe ever. I know I would be in line for one. But for now I wait.

6) Part-Time Realtor: Full-Time Problem – Does it bother you that only 27% of agents are full-time? I recently heard that 7% of agents did something like 93% of all the transactions in the last year which means most of those part-time agents are not doing anything anyways so it does not bother me to much. Almost every career has people that do it part-time, real estate will never be any different.

7) Brokerages Slow to Adopt Digital Marketing – I find this much more troubling than number 6 on the list. 90ish% of all home buyers start online and only 40% of a brokerages budget spent in digital marketing? Where the heck are they spending their money and I want a refund!

8) Hitwise Search Term Analysis for the Real Estate Category (For Rent Queries Overtake For Sale Queries) – Great news if you are an agent who likes to target renters.

9) The Right Length to Lock-in: Short term vs. long term mortgage rates – So if you like high-risk high-reward in your finances short term… else long term.

10) Growing Pains for the National Association of Realtors – Is NAR responsive enough to change?