Ken Horst's (khorst) Blog

I haven't written in a while, sorry, blogged, but I guess if I had just been journaling my experiences of the past few months, it would have been similar to that of many of my peers in real estate and mortgage, interesting to say the least.  Mostly my business, mortgage, has been down in the past...

One of the most visited pages on Agentopolis is our "Top 100 Real Estate Agents" page.  Stop by and see if you or anyone in your office has made the list, visit, "Top 100 Real Estate Agents" and congratulations to all those agents who have!Coming soon Agentopolis will be offering a consumer facin...

Countrywide is reeling from an attack by the two headed monster, declining mortgage fundings due in part to stricter standards, and increasing foreclosures. According to an article today from Reuters, Countrywide has eliminated 4,935 jobs in September and plans to eliminate up to another 12,000 j...

I got a call from a potential mortgage client today who at the end of the call, when I asked her if she had already been looking at houses, informed me that she thought she might have found one on a foreclosure website.  It turns out she learned about the site because they took out a full page ad...

If you haven't already seen this you'll want to check it out.  1000 Watt consulting has put together a list of internet companies that serve the real estate industry in a "web 2.0" way, being transparent, low or no fees for many of them, and all using technology and the internet to make it easier...

First Look USA launched today in beta to both give home buyers and investors access to equity driven real estate and to help distressed sellers move their properties fast.  The brain child of Jim Boo and Bob Pilz, both real estate developers, rehab experts, and investors, First Look USA was creat...

Las Vegas MLS Guide launched today to give Las Vegas home shoppers access to thousands of homes for sale in the Las Vegas Metro.  Richard Lasica is a Realty Executive Agent who owns the site and he told me he is excited about this marketing opportunity as the Las Vegas housing market has gone thr...

Agentopolis, the fastest growing real estate agent directory on the internet, had it's 1 millionth page view today!  Since our inception, over 15,000 Realtors have updated their free profile and added over 3,000 property listings.  Stay tuned for some exciting changes will give agents even more e...

First Home Guide, a web site for first time home buyers, is currently coming up on the first page of Google for the phrase "State First Time Home Buyer Seminar" in a number of states like Florida, Minnesota, Tennessee, Maryland, and others.  Simply type in "your state first time home buyer semina...

 I got a call yesterday from a telemarketer trying to sell me Internet advertising. Having owned and managed a half dozen real estate related web sites over the past 5 years, I have some idea about web traffic, search engine optimization, and "Who's Who" in real estate directories, portals and de...