Carnival of Real Estate

Kudos to For Sale By Locals. They host the 60th Carnival of Real Estate this week with a reminder that real estate needs to address the changing demographics in the U.S. They chose the following posts as winners within the following categories:

English Language Winner: ‘How to Sell a House in Over 6 Months’ by Ben Cotten

Spanish Language Winner: ‘Como Aprovechar las Bondades de Cada Pais Para Hacer Crecer to Mercado de Bienes Raices’ by Alicia Yabeta posted at CasaComprar

Portuguese Language Winner: ‘As Imobiliarias Espanholas Constroem Seu Futuro na America Latina’ by Lila Mendez

Visit For Sale By Locals to read their reviews on these posts and if you’re like me and you need a bit of help in the translation department, visit Alta Vista – Babel Fish Translation.

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This Monday the Carnival of Real Estate is hosted at real/diaBlog and this week they highlight the top 7 entries including:

‘News You Can Use – Real Estate is a Business’ by Kris Berg of SanDiegoCastles.com and BloodhoundBlog

‘Attn. Market Timers! The EXACT Best Day to Buy!’ from Blog.FranklyRealty.com

and

‘How To Build a Strong Real Estate Team’ posted at StewartHsu.com

Go check out the other four honorees!

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The 57th Carnival of Real Estate can be found at Valparaiso Indiana Home Builder – Northwest Indiana.

‘What Does Golf and Selling A Home Have In Common?’ written by Douglass Trudeau and posted at Tucson Real Estate Blogs was awarded this week’s top post.

Other great reads include:

‘Hedgehogs and Real Estate Agents’ by Brian Miller of Real Estate Entropy

‘Top 10 Movies to Watch Before Remodeling Your Home’ by Sagar Satapathy of Homeowners Insurance Lowdown

and

‘Why Trulia Voices Drives Me Crazy!’ by Jay Thompson, The Phoenix Real Estate Guy (it drives us crazy too Jay…but in a good way)

Head on over to Northwest Indiana to check out the rest of the bunch.

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The Carnival visits the country this week, graciously hosted by TheLandJournal.

A few great reads were awarded the blue ribbon including:

‘How to generate leads from your real estate blog: we have proof’ posted at Rsspieces.com

‘Exploding Myths: Part 2. Web Leads – Quality Vs. Quantity’ live at Geek Estate Blog

and

‘Beyond Home Buying: How Building And Renovating Can Be The Biggest Investments Of Your Life’ from The Digerati Life

Many other posts were given second place honors as well. I’m not sure what color ribbon they receive but assure you that they are worth the read. Go meander over the pasture and take a look.

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Realty Thoughts hosts the 54th Carnival of Real Estate and highlights the top six posts for the week including:

‘What Have We Taught Our Clients?’ by Jonathan Dalton of DaltonAZHomes.com

and

‘Are Vacant Homes Black Holes That Suck the Life Out of their Own Sales?’ by Craig Schiller of Home Staging

Four other great articles await your read as well so go check ‘em out!

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This week’s Carnival of Real Estate is hosted by Larry Cragun at RealEstateUndressed. Larry chose the seven most magnificent posts including:

‘Is your Listing Still Competing In a Changing Real Estate Market?’ by Howard Arnoff posted at the Charleston Real Estate Blog

‘Home Privacy – Personal Privacy – How to Get It’ by Sondra Johnson of the Columbus Real Estate Voice

and

‘Condo sellers – review rules and bylaws’ by Teresa Boardman from the St. Paul Real Estate Blog

Go get Undressed and check out the other great posts!

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The 52nd Carnival of Real Estate is hosted by Gena Riede of the Sacramento Real Estate Voice. Gena chose a board-game theme to present the winning entries this week and I’m sure you only need one guess to think of the game most relatable to real estate.

Monopoly of course!!

Teams of Mortgage Professionals, Inspectors, Vendors, and Realtors were all vying to be the big kids on the Boardwalk. Here’s a sneak peak of those who came out on top.

Stephanie Edwards of ActiveRain and her post, ‘Pack Your Bags For The Journey Ahead’

America’s Mortgage Broker, Brian Brady and his article ‘San Diego Mortgage Advice: Call to ARMs’

Patriot Funding’s Tim Abbott and his ‘Look into the Minds of Madmen’

and

Stan Humphries of Zillow with his post, ‘All Politics is Local: Blue States Beat Out Red States in Home Values’

Go take a look at these and other great posts and don’t forget to collect $200* when you pass Go.

*Not provided by Trulia.

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The 51st Carnival of Real Estate is hosted this week at Rain City Guide and judged by Ardell DellaLoggia. Top entries include:

‘Selling Like a Catholic School Girl’ by Brian Brady over at Active Rain

‘Co-ops loosing clout with luxury buyers?’ by Peter Comitini of the Corcoran Group

‘The Combination Real Estate Agent / Lender: One-Stop Shopping, or Half-Assed Service?’ by Jay Thompson, The Phoenix Real Estate Guy

‘Top Ten Tidbits for Success’ by Brande Bradford of Active Rain

and ‘Expected Rate Of Decline Of Home Prices In The Next Year’ from The Digerati Life

Check out Ardell’s criteria for selecting these great reads and see how they stack up according to your own.

Happy Reading!

Carnival of Real Estate #50

The 50th Carnival of Real Estate, hosted at Sadie’s Take on Delaware Ohio, is already garnering a lot of praise. Gregg Swann calls it ‘the most original presentation yet.’

On the heels of two PGA events shaking up the Ohio scene, Toby Boyce presents the Carnival with a golf theme. Despite being a golfer myself (not a good one I assure you) I was still tempted to make a joke about how being 50 and playing golf seem to go hand in hand – most of my younger golfing experiences occurred with my grandparents and others in their golden years.

But I must admit that golf is far from the senior citizen sport is used to be (yes, I’m very well acquainted with the talents of Tiger Woods) and Toby’s ‘match-play challenge’ is extremely entertaining.

I can’t do any justice to the play-by-play he offers and I don’t want to ruin the surprise and let you know who wins, so I’m just going to list a few of the challengers below and encourage all to go read and enjoy.

Broker Bryant presents ‘You Want My Seller to Do What?’

Jeff Kempe of BloodhoundBlog authors ‘The Imperative of Divorced Commissions, Part 2: The Inherent Value of Free’

Oliver Muoto of vFlyerBlog asks ‘Online Real Estate Advertising – Are You Doing Any?’

and

John Everat of ActiveRain provides ‘Sound Market Advice in an UnSound Market’

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After a break for the Fourth of July holiday the Carnival of Real Estate is hosted this week at ValleyMarket. It’s been popular lately to sort top entries by category – probably because there are just so many great posts. Here are a few of ValleyMarket’s picks:

In the Real Estate Agents category Brian Miller of RealEstateEntropy tells you ‘How to Market Your Home Like A Rock Star’ and Michael Krotchie provides his ‘Top 100 Reasons To Use A Real Estate Agent’.

If you’re in the market for advice on Mortgages you’ll definitely want to check out Dan Melson’s post ‘Just Because Compensation for a Loan Isn’t Disclosed Doesn’t Mean It’s Free’ hosted at Searchlight Crusade and Tim Abbott’s tale of ‘The 3.6 Million Dollar Mortgage’.

If Technology is more your game take a look at ‘How the I-Phone Can Revolutionize Real Estate’ by Oliver Muoto at VflyerBlog and ‘To Map or NOT to MAP – That is the question?’ posted at Realtor Genius.

Don’t let the fact that they are posted under Other fool you, the following posts are still extremely informative and worth the read: Kimberly Wester of ActiveRain explains ’5 Things Buyers Should Never See in Your Listings’ and Christopher Smith of EquityScout talks about ‘Transpartent Honest Negotiating’.

Go check out the rest of the entries and enjoy your reading.