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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Few know the amount of work that a real estate agent or mortgage brokers puts into all of the aspects of their business. The combination of prospecting, selling, showing, managing, repairing, coddling, prodding, advising, cajoling, and advising is taxing [...]

3Sep2007 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued

With Tougher Mortgage Requirements, First Time Homebuyers Can Use IRA Money For Downpayment

After years of fairly easy lending standards for buyers, homeowners did not have to worry about coming up with large downpayments for their first homes. But since the lending standards for homebuyers has tightened significantly in the past year, new homeowners need to learn the tricks to coming up with a larger downpayment to qualify [...]

30Aug2007 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued

Love The Mont Blanc Feel Without The Mont Blanc Price?

As a real estate professional, note taking and contract signing is a way of life. The Mont Blanc pens are renowned for their style and feel as ink meets paper. Well, if you are like me, the 200 dollar price tag of a Mont Blanc is beyond what I will pay for a pen.
However [...]

26Aug2007 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued

FlippingHomes.com - A Community For Real Estate Investors

When FlippingHomes.com approached me about doing a review of their site, I was curious. If you read the conventional wisdom in the market, flipping is dead and crazy to get into. But after spending some time on the site, with the crew over at FlippingHomes.com has done is create a vibrant and effective resource for those that are [...]

18Aug2007 | Tom Royce | 4 comments | Continued

Colorado Association of Realtors Makes $50,000 in Grant Money Available For Real Estate Education

I wonder if this would pertain to websites that are providing an education resource for REALTORs learning how to blog. There are 2 great resources from a couple of my favorite webloggers that are out there already that a little grant money could jumpstart.

The Colorado Association of REALTORS® (CAR) Education Foundation has announced a $50,000 Real [...]

17Jul2007 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

New Google Advertising in YouTube - Very Cool and Interesting For Real Estate Agents

If you are interested in using video in your marketing mix, I found this tonight via Jeff Jarvis’s site. It is how Google is going to be inserting advertisements in YouTube videos.
It looks very cool and could have a first mover for some smart real estate marketers.

12Jul2007 | Tom Royce | 1 comment | Continued

ShackPrice Morphs Into Estately - From Search to Matchmaker

The wonderful world of Web 2.0 startups is full of twists and turns, and ShackPrices is making one of those turns re-branding itself as Estately.com and revising it’s business model. ShackPrices was focused on offering itself as a real estate search engine is now Estately.com that will offer a low cost alternative to finding an [...]

28Jun2007 | Tom Royce | 4 comments | Continued

5 Steps Forward, 4 Steps Back - A Motivating Story

Scott Adams, world famous creator of Dilbert, has a great post today on the power of perserverence. He documents all the baby steps that took years before he achieved his overnight success and champagne moments.
It is a great lesson for real estate agents (and bloggers) everywhere. Take great joy in the small victories but keep [...]

25Jun2007 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued

Want to Be Lucky? You Better Work Your Behind Off For It

Many people think that being lucky is something that just happens. However, as my Dad has told me my whole life, luck has a much better chance of finding you when you work 70 hours a week.
Scott Ginsberg, The Nametag Guy, has learned that lesson and made 20/20 discussing it. It is definately worth [...]

19Jun2007 | Tom Royce | 3 comments | Continued

In The Mail: Diary of a Real Estate Rookie

Columnist at Inman News and occasional e-mail friend, Alison Rogers, has put out a new book that looks interesting, Diary of a Real Estate Rookie. It is on the nightstand and I am looking forward to reading it.

19Jun2007 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued