Rain City Guide

Seriously. Real estate agents have known this forever: people aren’t very interested in buying or selling a home during the holidays. Do you really want to put in an offer and then manage it from your in-laws house in Florida?
Search volumes for Real Estate, Christmas Day, and Thanksgiving Day. Christmas and Thanksgiving alone (without “day”) [...]

I saw the great results that Matt ended up with in taking the Technosailor Self Importance Test, and had to give it a try… Turns out I’m most like Chris Pirillo…
The result is fascinating in that it is somewhat like reading a horoscope…
You are most like Chris Pirillo. You dominate your [...]

Inspired by Doug Walker of Rock Paper Scissors fame (and looking for a way to get Bart’s rear off of the top of RCG now that Inman is sending us a bunch of traffic!), I thought I’d share my celebrity look-alike profile from MyHeritage…

I’m thinking the technology still has a way to go… [...]

RCG starts up Metroblogging’s Blarch Badness event in head-to-head competition with Izzle pfaff!
Our dribbling is ugly! Our shooting is worse? I crumble in public… Can we compete?
Vote here!

I saw myself in a “puzzle” of faces here and there around the internet. Apparently you can add your blog, but I didn’t put mine there, so someone must have “entered me”.
Not sure where it originated. I’m still tracking it back.
It is an amazing display of blogs! and the photos are interactive [...]

At around 8pm, I woke up from a late afternoon nap to see that Ardell still had over 30 posts to write and I got a worried… So I took a Newcastle out of the fridge and started writing. I figured that should it become necessary, I could pass along a few extra posts to [...]

Today’s theme? Fun with real estate!

Marlow provides a list of entertaining stories about hijacks (along with some good-natured teasing about the high PubSub ranking or her PI blog!)…
Glenn thinks that we should change the title of Seattle Eric’s post because we’re not being fair. “The original post should be corrected out of fairness to [...]

Yesterday’s theme was PreFab, today I’m back to simply providing links to 10 interesting real estate conversations…

Prosper is an online marketplace for people to lend money to other people. Shaun has been playing with Prosper and has some interesting observations.
I don’t agree with Mark’s conclusions, but I think he makes an interesting case [...]

I received these flowers today with this note: “Thanks So Much For All Your Help. Despite Your Protests and Warnings I Went Ahead & Formed A New Santa Cruz Chapter Of The Ardell Fan Club. (& I’m President) :-)”
Since we never know what the flowers look like that we send by phone, I thought [...]

For all you econ majors and those who are cringing as our new Fed Chairman adjust to his new role this is a great little paradogy from the Columbia School of Business.
Every Breath You Take
Dean Glenn Hubbard
Parody: Follies Student Comedy Revue