Archive for March, 2008



Sellsius Talks to Real Estate Radio USA

I had the opportunity to speak with Real Estate Radio USA’s Barry Johnson and Barry Cunningham. We talked about legal issues facing bloggers. Have a listen here. (Episode 82)

Easily Install a Chat to Any Website or Blog: Yaplet

If you want to try a chat feature on your website or blog, try yaplet. It’s easy. Just go to yaplet, enter your website or blog URL and choose the code for any of the yaplet badges. Add the code to your sidebar. Done.  Try putting it on your […]

Lomme Bed: Does The Future Make You Sleepy?

The Lomme is a futuristic looking egg shaped bed.  It uses colored light and sound (iPod), as well as massage, to whisk you away to a restful sleep.    It even has a light therapy alarm clock.  The glass reinforced polymer shell blocks electromagnetic waves and radiation (but doesn’t it get in through the sides?)
Price […]

Poll: Should Real Estate Agents Reveal Their Sales Statistics?


Rating Real Estate Agents: Experience v. Results

Experience and results matter in any profession. Clients respect experience and want results. But experience and results are not the same and I suspect consumers prefer results to experience when it comes to home sales and purchases.
Who Wins the Client?
A professional with years of experience may not be that good at negotiation or closing […]

How to Check a Real Estate Brokers License

Home Gain has a nice state by state real estate license directory, with links and telephone numbers, so you can check a real estate broker or agent’s license.  That’s helpful.

Real Estate Search Engine DotHomes Adds Foreclosures

Today, I had the pleasure of speaking with DotHomes.com founder, Douglas de Jager, a smart chap from the UK who launched the Google-like real estate search engine in the U.S. on January 28, 2008.  It has been in the search game since May 2006, when it was known as Extate (with UK and South Africa […]

Home Gain Buyer Link: What Gives With Buyer Leads?

You may have noticed the Home Gain Buyer Link Sponsor Ad. For those who do not know what Buyer Link is all about (myself included), I decided to ask the honchos over there for the lowdown. Are you helping agents or what? Apparently, they’re helping.
Here are a few things Louis Cammarosano […]

Kentucky’s Un-American Attempt to Outlaw Anonymity on the Internet

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. — U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens in McIntyre v Ohio Elections Comm. (1995).

Ad for the Federalist Papers, written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, under the pseudonym Publius (chosen by Hamilton). Published in 1787 .
Kentucky Bullies Free Speech Under […]

Cyberdoorman or Where Have the Humans Gone?

Faced with the rising cost of human labor, it is not surprising that companies are turning to alternatives provided by technology. In apartment buildings, the first to go may be the doorman.
Cyberdoorman, located in New York, provides security and a technological replacement for the building doorman using internet cameras, intercoms, telephones, remote entry […]