Real Estate Blog Lab

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!That’s right you heard it here first of April 2007 Google releases Free Google TiSP Broadband.  What an amazing application of modern commodel communication.

What a fanastic idea.  I signed up for my kit just now.  I can hardly wait [...]

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I was testing the CMA plugin from Realivent last week.  I put a page up on the Tucson Real Estate in The News with the CMA plugin on it.  The page was supposed to have an introductory paragraph about the CMA, but when I published the page it wasn’t there.
I didn’t have time to look at [...]

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Follow the Logic Brick Road
I’ve never been the kind of person to use a knife for a screwdriver, well maybe a couple of times.  But that’s not the point.
While the ladies of the house might go to the mall to “Shop”  they wonder why I don’t want to come along.  You know, walking from store [...]

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The Sidebar Widget is essential for quicklysetting up my property sites.  This means that I usually pick themes that are already widgetized. Once you activate the plugin go to the presentation tab.  There you will see the Sidebar Widget listed.
I like having three column layouts for single property sites.  I’ll go into the why in the theme’s post. 
I [...]

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“Remember that every agent’s livelihood and ultimate goal is to have as many signs in the ground and as much advertising as possible. The signs and advertising bring more listing leads and buyer leads, which puts more money in the agent’s pocket.”   Taken from Real/diablog - tomorrows real estate trends the post titled:  ”Agents “Buying [...]

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I have searched, and struggled and spent many hours working with various plugins for Wordpress to display maps and links the way I want them.  I’ve finally found the solution that fits for what I want in a mapping for my sites,  it is YourGMap. 
I don’t know about you but I hate reading post or [...]

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Plugins really make setting up a single property site much easier.  One Plugin I use heavily is the Sidebar Widget plugin, when you chose a theme you want to make sure it is “Widget ready” or “widgetized”  if not you will need to know how to go in and modify the theme code to include [...]

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“Hi, I know we were coming to town this next weekend, but one of the homes you sent us is really interesting and we see it just came on the market.  Could you go over and take some more photos.  We want to see all the bedrooms and the inside of the kitchen cabinets if [...]

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There are two types of categories

Categories for organizing your posts
Categories for organizing your blogroll (links)

Wordpress 2.1 changed the way it handles categories behind the scenes and now allows you to create them on the fly. For our purposes they haven’t changed a great deal. For SEO purposes here are my suggestions for Category [...]

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