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2007

www.itsabadidea.org

By Glenn Roberts, Jr., Monday, April 9, 2007.
The North Carolina Association of Realtors believes legislative proposals for a real estate transfer tax -- a tax that is based on a percentage of a home's selling price -- are a bad idea. And that's why it started up...  more...

Project Blogger Kicks Off

By Jessica Swesey, Monday, April 9, 2007.
Today marks the first official day of the Project Blogger competition created by ActiveRain and sponsored by Inman News. The competition pairs 13 top-notch bloggers and teams with apprentices to show them the ropes of the brave world of real...  more...

Do you Twitter?

By Jessica Swesey, Monday, April 9, 2007.
Want to stay connected to other attendees at this summer's Real Estate Connect or Bloggers Connect events in San Francisco? Open a free Twitter account and have fun answering the question "What are you doing now?" Inman News has created...  more...

Indiana investigates real estate brokers, agents

By Glenn Roberts, Jr., Monday, April 9, 2007.
The Indianapolis Star newspaper reports that Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter is "mounting a vigorous prosecution of real estate brokers and salespeople in the state," with 640 active investigations of brokers and sales agents. "The crackdown ... follows a year...  more...

Social Media - Another Imposing Challenge to the Tech-Illiterate Broker

By Patrick Kitano, Monday, April 9, 2007.
Jessica Swesey's excellent series on the social media late last month explains its value to real estate marketing. I supplement her conclusions with one more - brokers need to understand how social media will benefit their agents and should be...  more...