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Carnival of Real Estate #75

By: Drew Meyers, Community Relations Specialist | January 28, 2008 |

We’re b-a-a-a-c-k! Yes, it’s been 74 posts since the Carnival of Real Estate launched, but it’s our chance again and we are pleased to host the 75th edition. Even though this is the second time we hosted the Carnival, a few bloggers have done it twice as a result of stepping up when the scheduled blog host could not make it. Our deepest thanks to those of you who have done that! By the way, here’s the first-ever Carnival post. See if you can identify the one blogger that appeared there and here in this post. Without further adieu, here we go!

Pick of the Week: Top spot goes to Silicon Valley Blogger at The Digerati Life for “7 Things To Consider As A First Time Real Estate Investor.” With home prices coming down from an all-time high, real estate investing is something to be considered carefully. The 7th tip was “Invest for the Right Reasons” and I think this advice applies to many facets of life, not just real estate investing.

Second place goes to Dee Copeland for explaining buyer agent incentives using a very creative approach — a recipe approach you might call it. The article was “Gotcha Guide™: Agent Bonuses are Bunk! Offer Real Incentives” posted at Texas Realty Blog. Here’s an excerpt:

INGREDIENTS & DIRECTIONS (TASTY BUYER AGENT BONUSES)

Cupcake_friendsStep 1: Take 2 cups of a Seller with an over-priced home.

Step 2: Whip in a heaping mound of a Cooled Real Estate Market.

Step 3: Drizzle in 1/2 teaspoon of a Listing Agent willing to “try anything”.

Step 4: Pile on $5000 worth of a Buyer Agent Bonus.

Finally: Sparingly sprinkle on Potential Home Buyers and Top with a Smart Buyer’s Agent.

PAP to make your listing photo popThird place goes to Larry Lohrman at Geek Estate Blog who mentioned that you can use PAP (pole aerial photography) to make your exterior photographs of your listings “pop”. I’d never heard of this approach to real estate photography, but based on the picture Larry used an example (photo to the right), it seems to make a huge difference.

Fourth place goes to Dan Melson who posted “Another Refinance Boom - With a Difference” at Searchlight Crusade. The two differences Dan brings up are the number of people that can afford a loan and impacted loan-to-value rations.

Fifth place goes to the First Time Home Buyer Helper blog by Roy Landers who gives tips on “How To Sell A Home Fast In A Slow Market.” Two tips I haven’t really heard before were down payment assistance programs and the possibility of using government money to sell your home.

And, here’s the best of the rest:

This Carnival offering was top-rate from start-to-finish. Many thanks to everyone who participated and is helping to keep the bar high on the Carnival of Real Estate.

The carnival will make its next appearance on Monday, February 4 at Searchlight Crusade. Please submit your best post by Sunday, February 3, to be considered. Are you a real estate blogger and would you like to host a future edition or take a more active role in carnival administration? If so, get instructions on how to do so here. Please check the complete FAQ list if you have other questions as to how to participate.

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  3. The Digerati Life on January 28, 2008 12:17 pm

    Drew,
    It’s been so long since I’ve participated in the Carnival of Real Estate so I’m really glad to have made it here. Thank you for the honors too!! Best wishes.

  4. David G from Zillow.com on January 28, 2008 12:25 pm

    The blogger that was also featured in the first carnival is Dan Melson! Dan was one of the (if not “the”) very first real estate bloggers and as far as I know, he was the only one submitting to blog carnivals before we started CoRE. It’s a fond memory because Dan was the only person we didn’t have to explain a blog carnival to.

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  6. HouseFlow.com on January 28, 2008 4:59 pm

    Great article, there is lots of things happening out there.

  7. Boise MLS on January 28, 2008 7:48 pm

    I agree. That $5000 in buyers agent bonus doesn’t seem to do much.

  8. Jay Thompson on January 28, 2008 11:40 pm

    Good stuff all around!

    What I found interesting about the CoRE #1 post was that of the 18 blogs linked to, only three appear to be abandoned. (I’m not counting Joel, who submitted before he was the “Future” of Real Estate Marketing).

    I would have guessed it would have been higher. Seems I saw something from Technorati once that said something like 80% of blogs are abandoned before their first birthday. This group was less than 20% at 75 weeks (more actually due to some skipped weeks).

  9. Santa Barbara Real Estate Voice on January 29, 2008 12:14 pm

    Drew,

    Thanks for the interesting post and insight to see how many bloggers are very creative in their approaches. Drop on by [link removed] if you ever have any questions or needs about our areas.

    take care

  10. Money Blue Book on January 29, 2008 8:00 pm

    Hola,
    Thanks for including our post! I really enjoyed reading the top picks

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