CoRE Link Post #39

Here’s this week’s link post. Sorry for not posting until Sunday morning.

Investing

Roberta Murphy presents The Bigger the Home the Bigger the Tumble? posted at The Real View.

Azmi M. presents Real Estate Investments are Smart posted at Azmi M..

Sagar Satapathy presents How To Be Your Own Real Estate Agent posted at 1031 Exchange Lowdown.

Matthew Paulson presents Make Sure You Have Enough Homeowner’s Insurance - Getting Green posted at Getting Green.

A Samuel presents Malaysia Beach Property is a Bargain posted at Nubricks.com.

Real Estate Market

jendiren presents How to own a house or apartment for free posted at kennubo.blogspot.com, saying, "how a college kid owned 2 houses ."

John Barker presents John Barker’s Mortgage Blog: How will Illinois HB 4050 affect you? posted at John Barker’s Mortgage Blog, saying, "This law can severely impact people’s ability and willingness to purchase real estate in Chicago.  Consumers and real estate professionals should all know about this."

Shaun McLane presents EKDAY Blog - Central Florida Real Estate posted at Ekday Orlando Real Estate Blog, saying, "Local interest story related to Disney’s Magic Kingdom secret underground tunnels in Orlando, FL. I was a former cast member at Disney and have been asked about these tunnels by my clients."

Maureen Francis presents 10 Tips for First Time Michigan Home Sellers posted at MiOaklandCounty.com.

Nina Smith presents The State of LGBT Retirement Communities posted at Queercents, saying, "The Gilbert Guide is a comprehensive resource guide for quality long-term care facilities and services. The San Francisco Chronicle dubbed it the Zagat guide for long-term care so it’s fitting that they have something to say about gay and lesbian retirement communities."

Doug Willis presents Thinking of Selling your home “By Owner”?…Think Again posted at Up2Date.

Larry Walker presents Reality Check 101 posted at Larry’s Take on the  Cocoa Beach Real Estate Market.

Clifford Jacobson presents Google, Microsoft, YouTube, DoubleClick. Will Zillow Have a Suitor? posted at Clifford Jacobson, saying, "Who Will Buy Zillow?"

Riversider presents Preston City Council Looking to "Build All Over " South Ribble? posted at Save The Ribble.

Real Estate Professionals

Dave Gooden presents The Zillow Project posted at Dave Gooden, saying, "Ongoing experiment chronicling LakePlace.com’s daily results with $100 worth of Zillow EZ Ads."

Craig Schiller presents Did Barb Schwarz "INVENT" Home Staging? posted at HOME STAGING, Rants & Ravings, saying, "This post BLEW UP with controversy… when it first was posted on Active Rain and rockted to be my most visted post. While it is a simple post that uses an industry personality to make a point… the hater’s and lover’s of Barb Schwarz came out to fight for their postion.
WOW!"

A. Grey presents Linking Real Estate Content With User Context: Putting Better Faces On Contextual Content posted at For Sale By Locals: A New Real Estate Approach, saying, "A technology article that looks at how to break out of the real estate blog structure to present information that users have searched for."

Brian Brady presents How To Get The Best Home Loan - Neatness Counts When You Want a Home Loan posted at Long Beach Real Estate.

Donna Kozik presents REC Recommends: Hop on Thunderbird posted at realestateconvergence.com Blog, saying, "A non-techie describes the joy of an email system that not only works but makes office life much, much easier."

Ironman presents The Boom in Realtors posted at Political Calculations, saying, "What is behind the boom in the number of Realtors in the U.S.?  Ironman at Political Calculations goes behind the numbers and finds that it’s not necessarily the housing market."

Greg Swann presents Zillow.com at the Dawn of the Age of Abundance: Working for free is not a crime, trying to forbid it is . . . posted at BloodhoundBlog, saying, "People may enunciate facts or opinions you would rather not hear, or rather not have heard by others, but when you pick up a gun to try to silence them — or when you entreat your legislator to pick up that gun — you become the enemy of civilization."