Real Estate Blog Lab

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!On weekends when we are planning on holding an open house, yeah, we still hold them live as well as virtual on the net.
Anyway, as I was saying, on those weekends we will often run an ad in the [...]

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Have you ever done a Google search and when you clicked on a link it went to the homepage of the site and not to the information you were looking for.
Most of us take 1 millionth of a second to see it isn’t there and rather than try and find navigation to the page we [...]

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Setting up the wp-configure.php file
Before you can install Wordpress you have to have a valid MYSQL database setup and you have to create the wp-configure.php file.
Here is the current place to go to get The latest version of Wordpress.
Wordpress comes with a wp-sample-configure.php file.  You can open this using notepad if you don’t have a [...]

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Have you ever heard of Ordie Tryin the Realtor?  He has done a lot of marketing over the years doing his best to represent buyers and sellers in his real estate market.  Ordie is one of those old ways are best kind of agent.
You know the ones, they farm their chosen area walking from house to [...]

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I ran across this little beauty a few days ago.  The Comment Spam Trap is a Wordpress plugin that is simple and easy to install.  Once installed you just sit back and watch the spam disappear. 
When I first installed the plugin I set up the plugin to email me the trapped comments. I wanted to [...]

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This will probably be the most boring post in the series.  I’ll be covering:
 For the purpose of these post we are going to use the address 123 MyStreet
Disclaimer: The only association I have with GoDaddy.com is as a customer.
I’m using Godaddy.com for all my hosting.  They are the only hosting company I have ever used.  [...]

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I just attended a fair housing class for my license renewal.  I always love this class, it makes me never want to talk to another living person about real estate. I’m glad the work I do involves never taking a listing and never writing a contract.  I do help show properties to clients and on [...]

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(We interrupt our series on time shifting open houses to bring you this mundane message about a live open house held today.) 
Today we were on the way back home from holding another great open house.
We had one visitor during the three hours.
We weren’t far from home when we passed this outhouse just sitting by the road side, [...]

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Lights, Camera, Action, Sound . . .  Yeah I added sound, don’t want to be completely cliche ridden.
We are in a video world. One of the amazing things to me is the acceptablility of very poor quality video when viewing it on the net.
All I hear is “High Def” this and “High Def” that.  The [...]

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Domain, sub-domain, folder, that is the question whether it is better to suffer the slings and arrows . . .
One of the first things you will want to decide is how to handle your domain name for the property site.  Your decision might have to be based on your particular hosting options.  If you are [...]

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