Archive for September, 2007

Nazi Real Estate in The United States

Source - YouTube
Lucy, you got some ’splainin’ to do
H/T to HotPads

Guerilla Gardening

The earth laughs in flowers — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Guerilla gardening is gardening on vacant land, typically an empty city lot, without the owner’s permission. Whether planting flowers, shrubs or a vegetable patch, the purpose is to create beauty and put neglected land to some use for the community. Sorta like a “people’s eminent domain”.
It […]

Press Release: BeatYouThere.com

Just received a press release from BeatYouThere.com - a new website combines real estate listings and social networking.
BeatYouThere.com is the real estate site the world has been waiting for.
BeatYouThere.com takes the work out of searching for residential and commercial real estate by providing users a free real estate focused search
engine.

Whatya Know About SEO: Take the Quiz

So you think you know SEO? Take the SEO quiz at SEOmoz, the guys who really know.
We suggest you give your web developer the quiz before you hire him/her.
Technorati Tags: SEO, SEOmoz, quiz, search engines

REBNY Launches Its Residential NYC Search Website

The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), the NYC equivalent of an MLS, has launched the Trulia built search engine/portal Residential NYC.com. Consumers can now freely search exclusive sale listings of REBNY members, without having to get inky fingers from checking The New York Times classifieds or visiting each broker’s website — and non-REBNY […]

New Realtor Social Networking Site: Realtorclix

Realtorclix is a new social network for those in the real estate biz. It’s free to join. My blogging buddy Steven Spalding of How To Split An Atom (a blog with some kick) passed it on to me. I signed up to take it for a spin. I’m gonna chat […]

Why Website Readers Ignore You: Fancy Words, Fancy Pants

Demosthenes Practising Oratory (Jean-Jules- Antoine-Lecomte du Nouy, 1870)
You may be a great writer but are you a great communicator? If you are trying to inform your readers, use simple words. Avoid buzzwords, jargon and highfalutin words. And don’t look like an ad promotion. You will be ignored.
So says website usability guru […]

Radar Logic to Acquire New York Real Estate Appraisal Firm Miller Samuel

Hot off the New York real estate press:
Radar Logic just announced its agreement to purchase New York City’s premier real estate appraisal firm, Miller Samuel Inc.

Radar Logic is a technology-driven data and analytics business that produces a daily “spot” price for residential real estate […]

Move Plays Flowers in the Rain

Source - YouTube
If the flowers and the trees could only talk……tbc

Are the Neighbors Unzillowable? Ask Rotten Neighbor

Rotten Neighbor is building a database of bad neighbors, complete with what makes them so rotten. Find the noisy, annoying scoundrels by zip code. There is a nice mapping feature that’s let’s you zero in on these property devaluing unzillowables.
Here’s a sample:

H/t: App Scout
Sometimes complaining about the neighbors may not be good enough […]