ThompsonsRealty.com Gets a Facelift

May 26, 2009 33 comments

Our “traditional” real estate website, ThompsonsRealty.com got a serious working over this weekend.
Before:

After:

Why?
I dunno. Why not? The old site had been around four plus years, and was just… getting old.
I was running the site on the Point 2 Agent platform, which I still think is one of the better real estate template site [...]

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Memorial Day 2009

May 25, 2009 13 comments

Please take four and a half minutes out of your day to remember and reflect on the true meaning of Memorial Day.

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Sunday Stats: Listing Success Rate

May 24, 2009 17 comments

“Listing Success Rate” is defined as, “the percentage of listings that closed with a sale rather than expiring or being canceled”. It compares the number of listings sold this month with the number of listings that were sold, expired or canceled in the same period.
At this moment in time, the Phoenix real estate [...]

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The Phoenix Real Estate Guy Forum Experiment #FAIL

May 21, 2009 25 comments

A month ago I announced a little “blogsperiment” – a forum on the Phoenix Real Estate Guy.
Today, I took down the forum.
Why?
F’ing spammers.
They swiftly over-ran the place and it became too big a time sink to monitor and delete forum posts.
I could likely fix this problem by requiring approval before a forum account is created, [...]

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You Have Full Permission to Advertise My Listings

May 19, 2009 84 comments

The recent “Blogstorm O’ Controversy” surrounding the complaint filed by an Indianapolis real estate broker to MIBOR (Metropolitan Indianapolis Board of Realtors), and the subsequent “clarification” by the NAR (National Association of Realtors) that an agent can not post IDX/MLS listings that can be indexed by search engines has unleashed a flurry of reactions across [...]

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It’s Election Day in Gilbert. Go Vote!

May 19, 2009 7 comments

Today is Election Day in the Town of Gilbert.
Up for grabs are the seats for Mayor and two members of the Town Council.
Since Don Skousen dropped out of the Mayor’s race, John Lewis is basically running unopposed. There is a write-in candidate, Glen Spencer, and although Skousen’s name is still on the ballot, votes cast [...]

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Sunday Stats: A look at Bank Owned Homes in Phoenix

May 17, 2009 26 comments

Bank owned homes – also known as lender owned homes, foreclosures or REO’s (Real Estate Owned) – continue to fly off the shelf in the Phoenix real estate market.

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Mr. Thompson Goes to Washington

May 13, 2009 46 comments

If you look very closely at the photo above, you may notice that it has been slightly altered. This subtle change to a classic movie still shot, and the clever play on words of this post’s title, both provide clues as to where I’ll be this week.
That’s right kids, I’m headed off to Washington, D.C. [...]

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On Suing Clients

May 12, 2009 33 comments

Fair warning, a bit of a rant ahead. But this is also a call for help. I need someone to explain to me why this attitude is so prevalent, because I just don’t get it.
A couple of days ago on Trulia Voices (a “forum” for agents, home buyers and sellers and the general public to [...]

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Postage Rates Go Up Today

May 11, 2009 17 comments

The cost of a first-class stamp goes up to 44 cents today, an increase of roughly 5%.
The rate for mailing postcards increases 4% to 28 cents.
Across the country tens of thousands of real estate agents are lamenting their increased costs of business as they ponder the impact of the price increases to mail out [...]

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Do you Yelp? A wicked cool review site.

May 9, 2009 21 comments

Yelp is a great place to get user reviews on all sorts of things. Usually when you talk about user reviews, two things come to mind – restaurants and Amazon.com books…

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