FRANKLY Real Estate Blog

Update: Sept 20th, the link to voting is hard to find on NVAR's site, so use this link to get there directly: http://tinyurl.com/NVAR-VOTE Update Sept 10th. Preliminary results are in! Frank is in 2nd to last place! Updated Sept 9th 2009: Voting began! (please Tweet/Repost etc) Vote through Oct ...

Are you better off buying AFTER the tax credit expires? Maybe. Everywhere you turn you read about the $8,000 1st time homebuyer tax credit and how you need to "Buy Now" (anybody remember that NAR ad from 2006?). Gotta hurry up before the Dec 1st Expiration!  (Sidenote: that expiration means you ...

In Virginia, there is a substantial savings on Title Insurance if you can get the "Reissue Rate." It can be from $500 to over $1000 depending on the price of your home. When do you qualify for the reissue rate? If the previous owner bought Title Insurance within the last few years, usually within...

The new search engine... TWITTER! Yep. People don't think of Twitter as a search engine. What is wrong with Google? It has everything? The problem... it has everything! Twitter is REAL TIME. So it shows you recent and updated news and information. I used it yesterday to save $80. I needed a coupo...

One of FranklYRealty.com's agents, Ray Hwang was working on a secret project that I didn't even know about until he launched it. His service is VideosByAddress.com and it is the first (as of this posting the only) MRIS approved Video Hosting company. During his beta phase, he is allowing all agen...

      Yep there is a SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for Youtube. Besides the keywords and tags and title, many will want to take it a step further to have the most ideal thumbnail image for the video. The image that users see and decide whether or not to click on it.      Youtube lets the perso...

Cartus relocation company is a CROC! (that is an opinion, for more opinions Google Cartus sucks). Actually many "relocation" companies that are supposed to help the employee are just fronts for making profit. And they have such a compelling pitch! How could an eligible buyer actually decide to by...

I just stumbled upon a new feature in Gmail called CANNED RESPONSE. After logging into Gmail, you find it by 1) clicking on SETTINGS (top right) and then 2) clicking on  LABS (upper right) and then 3) half way down you need to ENABLE Canned Responses.   Why does this save a TON of time? Well if ...

So disappointed.  My new favorite camera (see review vs v570) is the Samsung NV24HD (see camera on Amazon, get a refurb!)  has one major flaw... Video length. It is limited to 25 minutes, even at the lowest settings. It isn't a battery or card issue, it is a camera issue. This kinda stinks if you...

Kinda disappointed. Today I got a spam that was sent to an email address ONLY given to ActiveRain.com. So when I got the spam to that address (which is why each account I sign up for has a different email address) I knew there was a leak.   ActiveRain was, for me, the posterchild for how to keep ...