1) A smarter real estate search – Imagine if searching for a house was like listening to music on Pandora. I am just not sure users would want to give up that much control although agents would probably love it.

2) Real estate down 80,800 local jobs – Any doubt the real estate market and real estate related jobs have been extremely hard hit by the economy?

3) HAFA goes live at BofA- Short Sale Power Hour 04/06/10 – This is great, interview with a BoA rep on the new HAFA program.

4) With More Homes Going Under Contract, Home Prices Certain To Rise This Spring – Of course this is only to the famous shadow inventory we have been hearing about for 18 months is released (that is a joke people).

5) Multiple Sources of Retirement Income Through Real Estate Investing – This article gives you great ways to diversify if you are into real estate investing.

6) Short Sales, HAFA, and You! – I will continue to remain a skeptic until something happens to prove me wrong.

7) New Investing Mindset in the New Economic Normal – These are trying times and the future of real estate does not seem bright any time soon. How can you use this to your advantage?

8) Redfin Pre-Installed on Apple Store iPads – Now that is a power move by Redfin.

9) A Dozen things I can’t wait to learn tomorrow – The next REBarCamp is tomorrow, but even better is the PHX Bar Camp on Friday.

10) Get Yourself Connected – Are you in a position to communicate to your clients they way they prefer?

Today’s top 10 real estate posts of the day in no particular order…

1) Fed stopped buying MBS; What happens to Mortgage Rates now? – Rates were up about a quarter of a point last week, more to come?

2) If Your Friend Is Broke In Bank and Spirit. Share The Jessie James Solution – Resurrect Your Success In 30 Days. Boom Goes Your Dynamite, IF Light The Fuse. – Stuck in a rut? Need to get something going in the next month? Here is a great suggestion to kick start your real estate business.

3) Feds say rip Chinese drywall out of homes – It is going to be interesting to see who ends up paying for all this in the end.

4) Hyperlocal lifestyle real estate search is finally here- SpatialMatch -  If we could get something like this added to IDX solutions then find a way to integrate with Yelp and 4Square… That would be a hit

5) Lease Purchase Agreements Continue To Grow In Popularity – I personally am not a fan of a lease purchase for buyers, I would love to know how often the sale goes through on a lease purchase, I would have to guess less tahn 10%.

6) Buyers hunting for a bargain – Two houses, same floorplan, same community, one is $100k the other is $50k. There are other factors that do not always make the $50k home a better bargain.

7) Prepare to be a good Mortgage Candidate – When it is time to go for a mortgage make sure you are ready adn be honest.

8) 365 Things to do in… – We were talking about this very subject in #RETT when community pages were announced. Could someone like Dale Chumbley lose what he has spent so much time working on.

9) How To Use Rate Locks To Negotiate Yourself A Lower Mortgage Rate – The longer you lock your rate into the future the higher it is likely to be. Another reason to have a lender who can close quick.

10) Thinking About Skipping the Home Inspection? Think Again… – Everyone knows the basics you do a home inspection because you want to know if anything major is wrong or it is better to be safe than sorry. This video takes a different look at it. Two other reasons you may want a home inspection you are probably not thinking about.

If you have any ideas or thoughts on how to improve the Top 10 list please leave a comment and let me know. Here is today’s Top 10 real estate posts of the day.

1) Gift Funds on FHA Home Loans – Gift for FHA down payments is acceptable if the gifter is a relative.

2) Zillow bets on the iPad’s adoption, releases iPad application – I hope they have the Android version ready for the wePad coming this summer.

3) Long-Term Mortgage Rates at Second Highest Level This Year – Rates are still at low rates historically, but are they heading back up to the 6’s?

4) Real Estate Investment – More Definitions In Plain English – Want to get into investing, but not sure what GIO or NOI is, here you go.

5) The 2 Most Important Things To Consider About Your Real Estate Blogsite-Website – Why are your visitors there, do you provide them with what they are looking for?

6) A Time to Sell, a Time to Buy – Opportunities Abound for All in 2010 – But if rates keep going up better hurry.

7) Too Many Choices – Real Estate Web Usability – Looking forward to series on web usability.

8) A Lesson in Supply and Demand! – Do you see the opportunities? They may be coming.

9) The most rapidly growing counties across America – Good news for Florida, if people keep moving there the market is likely to rebound even quicker.

10) Ten Day Close: Can You Close Your Mortgage In Ten Days? – It is not often you find a lender who can get a loan closed in ten days.

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

1) Is Your Mortgage Originator Licensed or Registered – Double standard anyone? Loan originators need to get licensed, unless they work for a depository bank.

2) HEFI: Home Equity Fractional Interest – If you have read my past blogs or watched my videos you know I am a big fan of HEFI. There is great opportunity here for investors, home buyers, underwater owners and banks if they would just get off their butt and take a look at it.

3) Let’s Admit It’s Bad and Help Our Agents through It – Times are tough in the real estate market. This post makes a great case for instead of letting your standards get looser in terms of which clients to work with, they should be getting tougher.

4) How to Be the Winner in a Multiple Offer Purchase – Yesterday I had a post in this list about being careful in bidding wars with multiple offers. This post looks at some of the ways to position yourself to win in multiple offers situations.

5) Three months into the 2010 Good Faith Estimate…and We Still Have Issues – Almost a year into HVCC and three months into the new GFE and what do we know? What we know before we did either, government regulations to protect the consumer and “help the market” often do not have their intended outcome.

6) Should I Own Several Real Estate Websites – I am a one site guy myself, but not really sure I agree that one site is always the only answer. We have two cases right here in Phoenix that prove the point. There is Jay Thompson that everyone knows at the Phoenix Real Estate Guy, they do not much better than him when it comes to running one site and generating leads. But then there is David Deon who few have probably heard of. He may not have a work horse like TPREG.com, but he has hundreds of sites, all smaller long tail sites, that most likely generate multiples more leads than Jay. Both routes are a lot of work, but both can be effective.

7) A Real Estate Investor Without An Exit Plan Is Like a Baseball Team With No Closer – If you are an investor do you have an exit plan? Jeff Brown lays out why you may be playing with fire if you do not.

8) On the eve of disruption: location and the real estate opportunity of a lifetime – How do you know when you are a geek? You read this, stat thinking about driving around with your WePad or iPad or whatever your flavor is and using all this technology Brain talks about.

10) REtechSouth Presentation: Master Jedi Tips for Conferences – Going to a Barcamp or Inman Connect or any conference like that coming up? Social media can help you connect and meet more people.

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

1) Trials and Tribulations With Appraisals – I like it, a listing agent fighting back against a perceived bad appraisal.

2) Housing Market Set For Double Dip? – Double dip? Is that like a Dairy Queen ice cream cone? This is going to be an interesting year.

3) Ignoring The Shadow Inventory Will Not Make It Go Away – Shadow inventory is no doubt out there, but it has been for a year. The question is will they release it and flood the market or just keep the trickle coming.

4) New Yahoo! app “sketches” the future of real estate search – With the iPad and the even cooler WePad devices coming this, things will changes. These will be a real game changer for real estate.

5) New lead paint rules go into effect April 22 – This is not going to help the value of your house if it was built before 1978.

6) 7 Tips for Better Negotiation – Dealing with foreclosures we may not do as much “negotiations” as before, but when that case does come up some good advice and tips.

7) The Next Generation of Mobile Real Estate Marketing – Geofencing – So this is an interesting and maybe “cool” idea, but how is it different than a setting up an email alert for a home in your desired neighborhood?

8) Does the Real Estate Brokerage Matter to the Home Buyer / Seller? – Does your brokerage matter? As someone who recently went from a big name to a small boutique I think brokerage matters, I am just not sure that big name matters. I don’t think some of my clients even know which company I work for. Best part, great discussion below the post.

9) Bank of America Makes a Bold Move – Principal Forgiveness – This is going to be interesting to watch. With BoA I want to see proof first.

10) If Consumers Shopped as Diligently for Agents as Homes, the Real Estate Business Would Look Quite Different – This is why Jonathan Dalton is one of the best readers out there you are probably not reading.