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RECENT BLOG POSTS
  I was perusing some blogs playing catchup this week, and I came across The San Fransisco Real Estate Blog, it had a bunch of great entries, but what caught my eye the most, were the links with the double bars, and the bubbles that came from them. It's recognizable right away to be a pay per cli...
10/28/2006
About a month ago I wrote about the floating condos on the Freedom Ship.  Well ResidenSea eat your heart out.  Here's three extreemly creative housing ideas I stumbled across, all on the same website.The Trilobis65 is a floating habitat designed to house 6 people on 4 levels, connected by a spira...
10/16/2006
Ok, so my motivation for this was based on two sites I recently came across:Rentometer (what appears to be a Rental Zillow of sorts, Joshua Dorkin over at Biggerpockets blog brought this one to my attention) and GooTube (a mashup of google maps and real estate videos). I know that's not even clos...
10/15/2006
The Brookline tab announced yesterday that Brookline, MA is moving ahead with wireless internet.  It's not like it's smashing new news, as there are other towns with wireless internet popping up around the US. I can't say I'm necessarily a fan of the fact that it turns the internet into a public ...
10/13/2006
It's official.   Google has just purchased YouTube for $1.65 BILLION in shares.  Apparently, it was not so much that they wanted the name, but more importantly that none of their competitors acquired it.  What does this have anything to do with Real Estate? Absolutely everything!The concept of Th...
10/09/2006
So, I recently wrote an entry about Zillow.  I suggested that their Zindex was flawed because it fails to take land value, price per square foot, and type of housing into account.  I received this comment from David at Zillow:"Hi Jon, it's David from Zillow,You're right - the Zindex is no measure...
10/07/2006
Well, at least they did their best.  It's not for everyone, but ZillowBlog takes a quick focus on the Boston Real Estate market, with its new heatmap.  I'm a little upset that my stomping grounds are left out (Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville kind of stick out when you look at it this way), b...
10/07/2006
Why do you blog? What business benefits have you gained? But "most read bloggers"...  Now Jay Thompson, Douglass Doss, Greg Swann, Robert Melton (thanks for the mention in the 500 btw), Ardell DellaLoggia, and Jim Cronin.  That I'll buy... But they obviously haven't seen MY traffic #'s from all m...
10/06/2006
 Finally, we've officially closed on the triple decker, but of course not without the necessary roller coaster prior to closing.  So the closing package (and certified check) had to make it out of Chicago and be overnighted to my attorney.  Seeing as how god has it out for me, serious storms dela...
10/06/2006
So, again I find myself reading Active Rain Blogs.  And I come across this one.  So the agent thinks that home inspections are not meant to be a second round of negotiations.I couldn't disagree more.  Home inspections are a GREAT time for a second round of negotiations.  I don't know how it is in...
10/03/2006
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