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The discount Broker Redfin, which I follow with interest even though it doesn't serve Austin, looks like it's making yet another move toward traditional real estate services. Rather than facilitating the wholesale disintermediation of the traditional Realtor, Redfin instead continues to adopt mor...
11/16/2008
Realtor.com has a nice iPhone specific url that allows you to view real estate listings from your iPhone. I'm not sure what percentage of U.S. listings are fed into Realtor.com, but I would be suprised if it isn't most of the major metro area MLS listings. And they are all at your finger tips wit...
09/28/2008
I had an angry Realtor unleash a vulgar cursing tirade on me today and challenge me to a fight. He said he’d come to my office “and settle this man to man”. I declined, not because I’m a wussy, but because it wouldn’t be prudent or professional. Plus, I have nearly a three decade streak of not pu...
06/07/2008
I was evaluating some Property Management software recently, which was still in the “beta” stages of development. Beta software is commonly thought to be ready enough to function, but is expected to have undiscovered bugs and flaws, and may not be ready or stable enough for production use. I deci...
05/04/2008
I recently showed a property occupied by a large barking dog. The showing instructions said "appointment with owner". When I called the seller, the voice message said "if you need to show the property, call the agent". I called the agent who gave me a different number to call, for the daughter of...
04/21/2008
I've been showing and previewing a lot of property lately - probably more than a hundred homes in the past week. After showing a home and syncing the MLS key each night, the lockbox owners (listing agents) are notified electronically that the lockbox was opened by my key. This normally results i...
01/23/2008
I was recently challenged about a blog article I wrote. I was told that the references to the "bozo agent" along with the accompanying visual graphic of Bozo the Clown was over the line and damaging to the real estate industry and the reputation of all Realtors. It was suggested that unflattering...
10/17/2007
When I was a small boy, 9 years old, my family was traveling on summer vacation and we stopped at a campground that had a huge pool with a high dive. It was 1972. There were a ton of older kids lined up to jump and dive off the high dive into the pool. I had never made such a leap but wanted to t...
10/16/2007
There is an active listing that pops up almost every day as a "Price Change" update in one of the neighborhoods I like to keep an eye on. At first I thought maybe this was a glitch, as the price seemed to be the same each time (or so I thought). This morning it was there again so I decided to inv...
09/19/2007
Sylvia was broadsided yesterday in her new (3 months old) honda odyssey by an Illegal Immigrant driver on Manchaca Rd. He had no insurance, no driver's license, no proof of identification and didn't speak English. The police came and wrote him three tickets. I'm surprised he wasn't arrested, sin...
09/01/2007
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