CoRE Link Post #41

Here’s this week’s link post - hope you enjoy!

Investing

Robert Phillips presents How to Handle Sellers in PreForeclosure posted at Real Estate Investing.

A Samuel presents Turkish Property Holds Its Own posted at Nubricks.com.

Real Estate Market

Tracy Coenen presents Home buyers suing to get out of contracts posted at FRAUDfiles.

Athol Kay presents Sock Puppet: Point and Counterpoint posted at REagent in CT.

Doug Willis presents Attention Home Sellers, Its Not August 2005 Anymore posted at Up2Date.

John Barker presents Interest-Only Mortgages - Are they for you? posted at John Barker’s Mortgage Blog.

Lydia Taylor presents The listing appointment from…THE TWILIGHT ZONE posted at Elegant Augusta GA Real Estate Blog, saying, "Not sure which category to put this in, we were just having fun with this post."

Steve Leung presents Emotions in Real Estate: From Fear to Elation posted at 1SiliconValley.com, saying, ""It’s yours!" And after those two words, the only thing on the line was stunned silence!  A combination of elation, shock and achievement.  You could feel the excitement echoing through the airwaves but the quiet could have put out a candle.  How great would it be to come home every night to something that makes you feel just as good?  And what are reasons people are afraid of it?"

Larry Walker presents Reality Check, Part 2 posted at Larry’s Take on the  Cocoa Beach Real Estate Market, saying, "One of the oldest real estate blogs on the list. Telling the sometimes scary truth about our market since March 2005. This post on appraisals is very relevent in today’s market. Sellers that are forced to sell at bargain prices,   affect the eventual selling price of all nearby comparable properties whether those sellers are motivated or not."

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Lessons, Pay Taxes On Your Winnings! posted at The Digerati Life.

Nigel Swaby presents Jobs Are Linchpin to Real Estate posted at Salt Lake Real Estate Blog.

Jonathan Dalton presents Flat-Fee MLS - Self-serving Promotion at its Worst posted at Phoenix Arizona Real Estate.

Melissa DelGaudio presents Taking Evening Portraits of your Home posted at MelissaDelGaudio.net, saying, "How to take an effective evening portrait of your listing."

Real Estate Professionals

Dr. John Yacenda presents These Ladies Mean Business: Episode One! posted at RenoRealEstateVoice, saying, "This is the real world of Bank-Owned Real Estate — and it’s only Episode One!"

Barry Mahfood presents ARCHITECTURE CORNER: GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE posted at Central Florida Real Estate News, saying, "Real Estate Pros show their expertise by understanding the architecture of different types of homes."

Tim Abbott presents What’s your rate? posted at A Better Mortgage, saying, "This is an explanation (and plea!)from a mortgage professional as to why it is difficult to quote accurate rates after speaking to a client for only a couple of minutes"

Brian Brady presents What’s my rate?  It looks like I gotta WACC you ! posted at The Most Opinionated Mortgage Broker.

Drew Meyers presents How to Productively Take Advantage of Online Communities posted at Zillow Blog.

A. Grey presents YouTube Is Not A Magic Elixir…And The Data Proves It posted at A.’s Blog, saying, "We performed an analysis of all real estate property videos that had been posted on YouTube between 7-13 days ago and got rather surprising results."

Craig Schiller presents Don’t Be Seen as a Shifty Seller that Stages to Bamboozle Potential Home Buyers posted at HOME STAGING, Rants & Ravings,
saying, "Realtors need to understand the why and how advertising of a
property as "staged" can work against its sale. This posts goes into
the details of how."

Matthew Paulson presents Ways to Save Energy in Your Home posted at Getting Green.