“How To Sell HUD Homes” Comes to Elite!

by Matthew Rathbun on September 2, 2010

Cindy Bishop will be at Coldwell Banker Elite conducting her “How To Sell HUD Homes” class.  Lunch will be provided by RGS Title and Coldwell Banker Mortgage!

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MRIS and Market Statistics

by Matthew Rathbun on August 31, 2010

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Orginially posted on 8/16/2010 at MRIS’ Blog

Got Market Info?

One of my favorite applications from MRIS is the Real Estate Business Intelligence site.  I know that as Realtors, we are all asked what we think of the market and asked to predict the future.  Often times we try to convey information based on our personal knowledge.  But our perceptions are not always the reality and even if it is, our perceptions are typically not as convincing as independent reports.  Enter: REBIntel.

This MRIS site is packed with information and reports and best yet, it’s free and easy to access.  On this site you can find information broken down by Association region or county, city and zip.  The site has great charts and easy to use graphs.  Some of them are not in the PDF reports, but using tools like www.PDFMyURL.com you can create great documents to add to your Listing and Buyer packet that underscore what you’re trying to convey to your clients.

You can also take the market breakdowns that are in PDF and add them SlideShare.com and embed them in your own site for client reference. Additionally, each page as the ability to be shared with your Facebook, Twitter or more…

Here’s a brief walk-through of the site:



embedvideoFor those of us who are maintaining our own sites and blogs, one of the best parts of this tool, is embeddable MarketWatch videos that illustrate our market conditions.

The tool to create the embeddable video is similar to getting the embed code and a bit easier.  These short videos do a great job of painting a picture of the overall market condition for those areas served by MRIS.

It’s easy and creates a more engaging encounter for your site visitors.


Here’s an example of one of the videos:


All in all, it’s another tool in the agents tool chest and can relieve some liability and responsibility in interpreting market statistics for your clients.

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Some Great Tools & Plugins for Realtors on WordPress

August 26, 2010

WordPress for Real Estate Beginners I’m happy to see more and more Realtors using WordPress for their blogs and some even for their static webpages.  Over the next few months I’ll be putting together video tutorials and outlines to help those agents who are getting started. This post is just a few tools to get [...]

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Facebook Places | Make It Safer With Privacy Settings

August 25, 2010

Facebook’s New Toy Recently Facebook added a new feature called “Places”.  Its’ similar in principal to FourSquare and allows users to post their location, so that their friends can know where you are.  In the past, I’ve used FourSquare very judiciously.  For example, I don’t post my location when I’m on travel without  my family, [...]

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VREB Summer 2010 Newsletter

August 20, 2010

In an effort to reduce paper waste, the Virginia Real Estate Board delivers the DPOR Newsletter by digital format.  Here is the Summer 2010 Edition. VREB Speaking Summer 2010 View more documents from Matthew Rathbun.

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Coldwell Banker Elite Training Schedule for September – December 2010

August 19, 2010

The signup information will be out in the next week or so, but we wanted to release our upcoming schedule of training opportunities. The classes are open to the Elite family, as well as other area agents. Feel free to come! CBE Education Schedule 2010

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Coldwell Banker’s eZine | August 2010 Edition

August 9, 2010

Go Green! I’m a big fan of saving paper and print where one can.  Coldwell Banker distributes useful and engaging articles in this addition of the Coldwell Banker eZine magazine on line. Some of those articles spotlight talented agents using online tools to better engage their clients and create more business.  Other articles spotlight new [...]

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