Top 10 real estate posts of the day for 12/8/2009

1) Crozet Tweetup – 10 December – Really? A local Tweetup as a top 10 real estate post of the day? No, not really. This post alone is probably not worthy, but I am putting this here to show real estate agents what a real local niche blog should be. I have close to 300 blogs in my RSS reader that I go through every day and off the top of my head I cannot think of many that do a better job day-to-day of highlighting what is going on in their community than Jim Duncan does.

2) ZipRealty (almost) creates a handheld lead machine with iPhone app – Zip Realty may really be onto something here. It actually has me thinking of a few ideas.

3) 3 Evolutions of the Web – Notice how Jim Marks goes out of his way to work his brand into this video. But in this video Tom Ferry focuses on brand protection on the web.

4) Two Agent Genius articles on Google Goggles. Have you tried it yet? I downloaded it yesterday and played with it for a while, it still has some work to go, but the potential is HUGE. Of course it is, it’s Google. Google Goggles Revealed, New Way to Search Introduced which was followed by Google Goggles for Real Estate- Rock Your Marketing- Offline?

5) Moving In The Next 5 Years? Rethink Your Current Mortgage And Save 40% Per Month. – It is a very rare day when I disagree with Dan Green. What he says I usually take as mortgage gospel, but I have a hard time telling anyone if you plan on moving in 5 years to take out an ARM to save 40% because what if in 3-4 years when you are planning on moving interest rates are at 12, or 15%, would you still move?  I see what he means by the math, just not sure I agree it is every a good idea because you never know what will happen. Now that that is said, I go back to following Dan as the king or mortgage bloggers. Sorry Rhonda and Justin.

6) When Is the Best Time to Send Marketing Emails to Your Database? – Very interesting data here on the typical day in the life.

7) Why Loan Modifications Aren’t Working – In this video Kristin LaVanway sums up how loan modifications are just a band-aid and are not working.

8) Just another short story – No one in the business tells short stories like Kris Berg.

9) SEC Files Fraud Charges on Former Subprime Lenders – This is tough… on one hand you had lenders making irresponsible loans, on the other you had the feds ordering lenders to loosen their standards.

10) Trulia’s New iPhone App and Mobile Website – App looks pretty cool, when they going to start developing for the Android?