Not necessarily, they are very different sites. But the fact is, that in my reading over the weekend, I saw that Craigslist gets more hits than Realtor.com – are all those visitors there to buy real estate? No. But many are. Or they are looking for rentals, or they are potential sellers looking to see what agents are being pro-active in their marketing efforts for when they are ready to sell their home. The bottom line is that’s a lot of traffic and if you’re not taking advantage of it, I don’t see how you can be doing your best for your clients.

It’s amazing to watch the world through the eyes of a child. The exposure we gain is immeasurable. The evaluation skills we can take and the questioning of everything by the child gives pause to our often routine, busy lives.

New real estate wiki for real estate industry is launched. 
History of wikis in real estate
BiggerPockets (launched in 2006) claims to be the first real estate wiki but it unfortunately closed down in May 2007 due to lack of sufficient content.  Introduced shortly therafter, and still going strong, is InmanWiki (part of InmanNews, InmanTV and InmanBlog).  
Origins of wikisWikiWikiWeb was the first site to be called a wiki. It was started by Ward Cunningham in 1994 and was based on the name of the Honolulu International Airport shuttle called “Wiki-Wiki” … in Hawaiian that …

Once they’ve asked for and received a referral, most salespeople stop and wait for the magic to happen. In fact, this is when Phase 2 of the referral-generation process kicks in. Follow these steps:                    1.  Thank your referral source, immediately! Say thank you the moment the referral comes through, and say thank you again when you follow up with a hand-written note.                     2.  Determine the nature of the referral. To increase the probability of a successful first call you need to determine level of lead you will be dealing with. Slot …

The business plan is a foreign tool to most REALTORS®.  After studying, observing, interviewing, and coaching hundreds of Agents, I have concluded that very few have taken the time to create a quality business plan.  Fewer still review their business plan on a regular basis.  The few who have good business plans often make them so complicated that they possess little value.  Those Agents create such a complex business plan that they will never carry it out.  What kind of value does this complex business plan have to them? . …

Every year the RealSure team surveys the residential industry, seeks out any changes, analyzes new business models, interview hundreds of industry leaders, researches and reads thousands of articles and send out tens of surveys. Well the survey is currently underway and your opinions and comments will help provide a more accurate assessment of certain paradigm shifts that are currently occurring in the real estate industry.

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San Diego has been a very exciting and sometimes dangerous place to be in the past four days.
There is smoke and ash in the air, but this is overshadowed by people in San Diego so willing to comfort or thank anyone who crossed their paths.
I am very fortunate that I am not in an evacuation area, but am deeply concerned for my beautiful daughter, my brother, sister, and many friends and clients as well as my ”mortgage family” at General Mortgage in Rancho Bernardo.
Dick Palmer owns General Mortgage and runs it with …