Marlow Harris's (seattledreamhomes) Blog

Those Freakonomics guys are back again with a new book called Super-Freakonomics, where they continue their Realtor bashing with even more outrageous comments directed towards real estate agents. With the first book, they posited the question How Are Real Estate Agents Like the Ku Klux Klan?  The...

While a note on their company blog states that sites are back up, I am still unable to access my back "virtual office" to make needed updates.   I was advised to contact their "live chat", but recieved the following message: There are no operators available at the moment. If you would like to lea...

It's Day 4 in the 2009 Advanced Access debacle, and I am still amazed that their lack of transparency over the issues affecting the services they provide to their customers. They were updating and moving their data over to new servers, but that was last week and we haven't been able to access our...

I've had an Advanced Access website for 10 years and was very happy with it the first 5 or so, until the company was sold to Dominion.  Since then, Customer Service is a disservice and the product continues to suffer. They've had periodic outages almost every month, and this last week, they've an...

Just a week after announcing lay-offs of 25% of its workforce, Redfin had this ad posted on Craigslist. Why not just re-hire the people they let go? Does it really make more sense to re-hire contract workers so they don't have to pay benefits? Why not just hire traditional agents who work on comm...

Stephen Rotella, who was president and chief operating officer of Washington Mutual when it failed last month after being battered by mortgage losses, has listed his house on Capitol Hill for $6.25 million. Rotella, who was president and chief operating officer, is entitled under his current emp...

In an interesting turn of events and display of transcendental transparency the CEO of Redfin has confessed his fears for the future and his sadness in having to let go 20% of his workforce.   The good news is that Coldwell Banker Bain is hiring. They are the 8th largest residential real estate ...

For the first time in it's ten year history, the annual Treehouse Conference will be held in Fall City, WA (25 miles east of Seattle), at Treehouse Point on October 10th, an events facility owned by Pete and Judy Nelson, the folks who own Tree House Workshop. (Peter Nelson is the author of a ser...

September 7, Noon - 5:00pm Floating Homes On Tour Nine Lake Union, Three Portage Bay Free Espresso Drinks!   Seattle's Floating Homes Association biennial houseboat tour will be Sunday, September 7, 2008 from noon to 5:00 p.m. This year's tour will feature 12 floating homes, 9 on the east side o...

Many of us have our own websites that we have created ourselves. They belong to us, not our company or brokerage or web host, right?A few years ago, as an experiment, I purchased a "Connecting Neighbors" website. I was intrigued by the interactive nature of the site and I loved the automatic mont...