Real Estate Blog Lab

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I took two of my blogs and merged them into one.  Tucson Real Estate In the News merged with Tucson Real Estate to form a single entity.  The story of the process is documented in Combining Two Blogs in [...]

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On September 12th I wrote about “Hosting Your Own Image Files“, which by the way already has a PR 2 ranking for those following such things : )  In that post I asked about what others were doing for hosting their images.  Self-hosting or using something like Flickr to host your blog images and link [...]

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Is the Weight worth the Freight
I wrote in July 2007 about “Photos an Overlooked Part of Your Real Estate Blog Traffic” In short when you host your own photos and reference them in posts the photos and the URL to those photos get indexed by the search engines. They store those links and [...]

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Holiday weekends are tough on Geeks. We are supposed to be doing things outside, with family, going to community or family outings and cookouts. When all we really want to do is that geeky project we have been putting off and now we have the time to do it. Saturday, I pulled [...]

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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 paper complete with a photo of the property and details of the property and open house [...]

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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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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 of the house. What does it matter what I think of the house.  It isn’t my [...]

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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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