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Social networking dominates Web 2.0 with sites such as MySpace, Youtube, Facebook. Web 2.0 real estate stalwarts include Zillow and Trulia and now comes Zolve:
Zolve is an online real estate referral network, a business exchange that connects real estate practitioners and service providers across the country and around the globe.
Zolve has a Colorado connection (Colorado Springs) with an interesting twist:
Iraq is known for many things, but being an incubator for a new high-tech, American-based real estate businesses is not one of them. But from 2006 to 2007, a Baghdad garage converted to U.S. military barracks was the launching pad for Zolve, a networking and referral website for real estate professionals that launched this October.
Read the full article: A site for real estate pros
Tags: colorado, denver, real estateJul
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Colorado Real Estate/Mortgage Bloggers Meet
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I’ve been blogging for well over a year here at Denver Lender. It’s my third blog iteration. My first blog was on blogspot, google’s blogging platform, however, I didn’t like the platform. My second blog was on Active Rain, a real estate networking site. Active Rain is a neat place but again, I didn’t like the platform. For my third blog, I chose wordpress as the platform since I’m quite proficient in PHP and MYSQL. For the name of my blog I had to choose between www.Denver-Lender.com and www.denvuh.com. Would people get the NY pronunciation of Denver? I wasn’t too sure so I went with a domain name that was fairly easy to say and even easier to remember.
In a few weeks, I’ll get to meet others who blog about Colorado at the first ever Blog Fiesta.
Here are the details:
Blog Fiesta will be held at Garcia’s Mexican Resturant, on July 18th, from 11-3. Garcia’s is in the Denver Tech Center (South Metro Denver), near I-25 and Belleveiw. We have a room reserved to seat 60, and can spill into another room to support as many 100 attendee’s.
Appetizers, soft drinks, lunch & expert blogging will be provided!
11:00-12:00 - Meet & greet with appetizers
12:00-1:00 - Our expert panel on starting your own blog with Q&A
1:00-3:00 - Have lunch and socialize!
The event is free, but registration is required if you want to guaranty a seat. Register Here
Tags: colorado, denver, mortgage, real estateJan
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Links: You’re fired!
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If you’re a loyal reader, you’ve noticed that I post “Links: yada yada yada” more frequently. As I’ve mentioned numerous times, I’m a huge NY Jets fan and I visit thejetsblog.com quite a bit. Rather than disseminating all the information contained in each article, Bassett (the main blogger on the Jets Blog) would just post a list of links to various articles. I found it to be very effective and if the one sentence summary made the link either click worthy or not. That being said, here are links to various articles of interest:
- 25 Rules to Grow Rich by is old (November 2006) by Internet standards but this list includes 5 real estate related rules:
- For return on investment, the best home renovation is to upgrade an old bathroom. Kitchens come in second.
- It’s worth refinancing your mortgage when you can cut your interest rate by at least one point.
- Spend no more than 2½ times your income on a home. For a down payment, it’s best to come up with at least 20%.
- Your total housing payments should not exceed 28% of your gross income. Total debt payments should come in under 36%.
- Never hire a roofer, driveway paver or chimney sweep who is going door to door.
- While your at it, CNN Money has another article on how technology especially social networking sites are helping consumers make choices on real estate agents, neighborhoods, and even deciphering what their house is really worth.
- One of the sites mentioned in the CNN Money article, Homethinking, allows you find and rate real estate agents. One quick glance shows that none of the real estate agents have been rated. Moreover, they allow agents to pay their way to the top of the list via sponsored profiles.
- Americans are struggling to afford a home. The American dream is getting harder to achieve because buying a home is out of reach. For those of us who grew up near New York City, renting an apartment in the city much less buying a home was always out of reach.
- Donald Trump has stated that he wants to raise the bar in the lending game. He should start by stop focusing on Rosie and start firing his top mortgage guy.