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I published the 177th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate yesterday at the Virtual Results blog – head over and check out this month’s winners! The September CoRE will be hosted by Kris Berg, at her San Diego Home Blog. Submit your best September article here before the submission deadline of September 26th Midnight Pacific time!

With the recent news of existing July home sales plunging (27.2%) to its lowest level in approximately 15 years. Some economists are predicting a double dip recession. A couple reasons are because a lot of the banks are holding foreclosures off the market along with weak employment numbers. It would be great to hear your [...]

Most of you  likely know I managed the Carnival of Real Estate from when it was founded back in 2006 up until sometime in 2008, and as a result, it will always hold a special place in my heart. The CoRE was started to be a means to discover great blog content from the RE.net. [...]

So I guess at some point this year American Express came out with an online payment gateway, Accept Pay. From what I can see it looks like it kicks the crap out of pay pal – direct invoicing and receiving funds same day. Why wasn’t I told about this? I did a little bit of [...]

Please join me in welcoming my friend Ken Brand to the GEB contributor team. Ken is the sales manager for Prudential Gary Greene Realtors in The Woodlands Texas. He’s a transplanted surfer originally from San Diego but naturalized as a Texan I first met Ken in 1996 or so. I worked with an ISP in [...]

What The Heck is #RETT? About a week or so ago, I started noticing a hashtag associated with many of the posts in my social media stream, #RETT. Most of the posts were notices of meetings regarding RETT but nothing that revealed what it was. I assumed it was a local social media event of [...]

Creating A Conduit Toolbar for Internet Browsers Conduit.com is a site that allows you to create a “custom” toolbar that works with popular Internet browsers like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari.  The toolbar can be custom created from scratch, then offered as an additional tool allowing users a direct interface or “Conduit” to [...]

Lately I’ve been revisiting my goals from 2009, setting new ones for 2010 and trying to find ways to streamline my workflow to make things more efficient. One web-based trick I’ve been using to do that is Timebridge. Timebridge gives you the power to set up a meeting without all the typical back-and-forth emails trying [...]

Back in July of this year I wrote a post about the 10 most useful iPhone apps for real estate pros in which I recommended a mortgage calculator titled “Loan Calculator – What If?” Since then Apple’s App Store has grown significantly and the number of mortgage apps has increased dramatically as has the quality [...]

I can’t believe there have already been 168 real estate carnivals, but the 169th edition is now upon us and yours truly is at the helm once again. The last CoRE hosted here at Geek Estate Blog was Holidays with the Geeks (#121) — and it happened to be just about 1 year ago today [...]

Being this movie is one of my all time favorites, I couldn’t resist the quote. This time of year, we all are beyond super busy it seems. Whether you’re trying to wrap up any closings, finalize your year end sales #’s, or maybe it’s just finishing up the purchasing of any last minute gifts on [...]

I wanted to share a couple books that are perfect gifts. They are also worth picking up and reading yourself. The first book I would recommend is “Getting Real” by 37signals. It is written by the guys that developed: Basecamp, Campfire, Backpack, Whiteboard and Ta-da list. They develop all their products in Ruby on rails [...]