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Do Consumers Really Dislike Searching for Homes Online?

So I was reading Marc Davidson’s 1000Watt blog post from last Thursday titled “Why agents will one day rule the real estate world” and I was in a little disagreement with Marc’s view of the real estate search world as it relates to consumers. Now Marc, who I’ve known for a few years, did not bash on real estate search but stated that maybe today’s real estate search sites might be complicating the process by offering too much [...]

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Social Networking Pays Off…But It’s Not The Only Thing

Bernice Ross, CEO of RealEstateCrunch.com wrote an interesting article on Inman News today titled “Social networking pays off“.  One of the key points that Ms. Ross made upfront in the story was that “Social networking may soon overtake virtually every other source as being the most important strategy for lead generation”.

As I was reading that statement I heard myself question it and was surprised upon perusing the comments I was not alone.  John Rowles, Managing [...]

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