1) A Realtor’s® life in song – My new favorite Christmas song. Great find Elaine.

2) My “Ideal” Home Purchase Time Line – Rhonda and I agree that is very important for a home buyer who will be financing their home to talk to a mortgage professional. The challenge is knowing who a good loan officer who can get a loan closed is vs someone who works for a big box company who has no desire to really close the deal on time.

3) Making an Offer on a Short Sale in the Phoenix Real Estate Market – Great advice from Jonathan Dalton on how to structure a short sale offer. If you do make an offer that is below what the market comps are you need to be ready to come up when/if the bank says to low or you may be wasting a lot of time.

4) Who You Gonna Call, Part 2: What it Means – Rob always gets you to think, Interestingly enough, most of what we in the RE.net spend our time talking about — the marketing, superior technology, social media awareness, etc. — do not appear at the top of the list for realtors who select other realtors to sell their own homes.  What does? Trustworthiness.  In that sense, professional realtors are no different than layman consumers.

5) 12 Days Of Christmas – Mortgage Edition – In the spirit of Christmas I am not going to point out how horrible the singing is in this entertaining video.

6) Video Might Not Kill the Blog Star, But It’s Pretty Cool – Is 2010 finally going to be the year of video? I think so, so read this post and start filming.

7) Coming In 2010: Standardized Good Faith Estimate AND Updated Settlement Statement (HUD-1) – This post has the actual pdf of both forms.

8) Short Sale Predictor: Look for 2 Green Stars – What Frank does with his site and more importantly what he has done with his Frankly MLS is amazing.

9) Three Actions To Close out December- Real Estate Training – How do we know video is getting more popular? There are 5 in today’s Top 10, and one more post about videos. In this one Tom Ferry lays out three things you can do right now to get ready for the new year.

10) Advice for My East Coast Friends. Move to Phoenix! – This from Jay Thompson is for my friends back on the east coast… it really is that nice here.

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.

Video #2 – If you are looking for events going on along the Phoenix Light Rail then Raillife.com is the place to look. Nick Bastian does a great job of posting information on events happening near the Tempe and Phoenix light rail stops. Tonight a Twestival, which is a Twitter fund raising event, is happening in Tempe at the A-Loft. This event is in support of St Mary’s food bank. I encourage everyone to go and if you are even looking for events along the Phoenix Light Rail make sure you check out Raillife.com.