Real Estate Blog Lab

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I don’t really understand a listing agent calling me and asking for feedback on their listing.  The first time it happened I had no clue what they were asking.  “What do you mean by feedback?”  What do you think [...]

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Things are rolling along nicely in the world of Wordpress 2.1  I reported just a few days ago that I didn’t thing this version was ready for prime time, it wasn’t.  I think it is much closer now and most could update now following the upgrade guidelines from Wordpress and heeding some of the additional [...]

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The Tiga theme has been updated to deal with some of the changes made to the table structure for Wordpress 2.1
The link is http://themes.wordpress.net/download.php?theme=66
My thanks to RT Cunningham at Untwisted Vortex for his continued updates on the Tiga Theme.
I was hoping the theme would have a bug fixed for the permalinks issue.  If you change the [...]

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Jonathan Dalton asked where I was with Tobey’s bordered image.  Sorry Jonathan, I’ve been in a two day investment seminar here in Tucson.  And here in Tucson when someone asks where’s the border it isn’t usually a picture they are talking about.
Here is your new bordered image for my buddy Tobey.  Tobey, just have Jonathan [...]

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It has been an “interesting” couple of days since our upgrade to Worpress 2.1  For now here is my recommendation, WAIT  This upgrade is not ready for prime time. 
Meaning

If you like to spend hours and possibly days getting your blog back up and working then you are ready. 
If you aren’t using any plugins at all and have [...]

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Last last night I saw the new version of Wordpress was available for download and installation.  I added it first to the Tucson Real Estate in The News.  I followed the instruction of de-activationg all the plugins and backing up the database before placing the new files and running the upgrade.php.
WARNING.  When you go back [...]

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I know that many of you have to write descriptions for listings.  Sometimes for flyers or print media ads.  The Lab provides you with this list of 46 descriptive terms from which to choose so you can get back to the important aspect of Real Estate. 
Your Blog of Course. 
DESCRIBE THAT HOUSE !!! 
A Must See
A Rare Find
A Treasure
Beautiful Ridgetop
Below [...]

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Build it and they will come, but will they stay or come back? 
In the past couple of days I’ve run across several blogs that aren’t displaying well in Internet Explorer (IE).  I’m still using version 6 since our local Tucson MLS isn’t compatible with IE 7 (yet).
I know a lot of blogger’s hate IE.  But you [...]

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When you place a photo in a blog post do you just live with the text running right up to the edge of your image.  Would you like to have some margin, but you don’t know how to get it.  Here is an easy way to get what you want.
Images can be right, left or [...]

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This last year we had a lot more listing than usual.  I was taking a lot of photos of interiors as well as outside shots.  
One of the frustrating things I’ve run into is trying to take interior shots that didn’t make the rooms look small.  I ran across an ad for the Kodak V570 camera.  I wasn’t impressed with [...]

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