Eric Richardson's Real Estate Tech Blogs

"New home sales plummet.""Housing industry lowest in 20 years.""Foreclosure rates skyrocket."A homeowner reading the newspaper or watching the national news these days wouldn't think they had a chance if they wanted to sell.  On the flip-side, seeing these headlines would make buyers think that i...

(Stepping up on soap box)So, I am watching HGTV over the weekend (my wife is absolutely addicted to this channel) and I walk in to catch this agent sitting down with a potential seller at lunch.  It's all cute and quaint as they sit in this open cafe with the sun shining down only shaded briefly ...

Here's a question to the AR community...I have a couple of buyers that I am working with.  I set them up for auto-notifications of properties that meet their criteria that come on the market, have a price change, etc.  My buyers will e-mail me for more information about a particular property that...

I have to share this with the group.  So I pick up a new buyer last week and we're in the process of sizing up homes and we're going through to arrange the homes that he wants to see.  We narrow it down to probably four or five and I start making calls to schedule the showings and out of the four...

Having a website is no longer enoughNo matter how long you've been in the business, you've probably already started to find more and more of what I call "super-buyers" and "super-sellers".  These were yesterday's buyers and sellers who are now armed with a vast array of information and education ...

Okay, so it was a little far fetched and hard for me to get behind the national excitement about the iPhone.  I looked at it this way, I had the Samsung Blackjack that I had just bought at the time of the iPhone announcement ($500 thank you Cingular)  I mean, I didn't need all of this Steve Jobs ...

In January of this year my best friend and his wife decided that it was time for them to sell their home and downsize because his wife wanted to quit work and stay home with the kids.  Okay...no biggie.  Naturally, he approaches me and asks if I will list and sell it for them and I let them know ...

I am a big fan of using the Internet and websites as the starting point for my clients.  Although I have five different websites from four different providers, I find that the easiest and the one that gets the most results is my Agent XSite by a la mode.  Part of my success in getting leads and c...

So I am currently working two deals that are closing next week and I have somehow fallen into a bad scene from Boston Legal.  I know that our code is for all the agents to work for the best interest of all parties but lately it's become this thing where each Realtor digs in their heels and "fight...

The most successful online agents know that a great website is the result of a lot of work, mixed with a lot of trial and error. But when you use your XSites stats to learn what works (and doesn't) it's easy to build a lead generating super-site.Giving your site visitors what they want means know...