Randy 's frugaL REaL EstATe Blog

Yesterday I had a lovely root canal. During the process I outlined and mentally wrote the blog article about the 'social media engagement ring'. This came together quickly and I followed up today with a blog post, in another blog. The social media strategy I speak of is not designed for real est...

Yesterday I did live webcast show with a Georgia lawyer that was targeted at real estate agents. I covered the top 10 social media sites for agents and Howell Haunson covered some scary legal stuff, focusing on short sales. I'd love to have you watch and ask any questions or add any thought or i...

Twitstamp is my new favorite twitter app of the day and I've gone All American 4th of July with my theme, seen below. Many other themes and sizes are available at their site. Check it out for yourself. I use this on some blogs and site that my socail medai connections may stop by.Have a safe and ...

I've been using a free web service called Dropbox for a few weeks now and I am loving it.  I highly recommed you give it a look.  Dropbox works on any computer system and creates a virtual folder on your desktop that actually store files in the cloud. You can reach your files from anywhere and yo...

This is do-or-die-day for many real estate deals. Here's a good story. My take? If you can not close a deal in 60 days then you or your agent is likely a nincompoop. Just saying.

Alexa is a rating service that many people know of and it is one that I watch closely.  The Alexa ratings are available and explained on their site alexa.com, but bassically they montor the 'juice' and traffic power of websites and topics. Todays hot topics are Michael Jackson and Soccer, but che...

I have never understood why someone would buy a timeshare, at least not in the last 20 years when the value of them is so obviously zero.  Business must be better than I ever knew however with an outrageous 90,000 sq ft home being built by a timeshare tycoon.  $75 Million and that's not for the f...

Hello 1999. That's what I was thinking when I was taking an only 3 hr CE credit course offed via American Real Estate University.  The technology is rather like a look in the Way-back machine.  Argghhhh! I have always had more than enough hours of CE to keep my state commish happy, but this time ...

Not much time today but wanted to pass along a great idea I picked up at the Atlanta bloggers meetup this week.  I've preached the value of blog commenting for good traffic building but  I wasnt bookmarking the comment. When you make a comment on a blog that comment will geerate a specific url in...

Imagine that you work in the Atlanta market where unemployment is 10 1/2 % and credit scores are the total pits. After working for a year to clean their report to the minimum, your borrower uses the visa to fill their Explorer and BAM! the credit boys hit the monthly snapshot button late that nig...