Rain City Guide

I was made an offer that I couldn’t refuse.

I’ve been playing around with wikis for quite a while, and I finally got around to installing one (that I’m happy with) on the Rain City Guide server. But before I tell you what you can do with the wiki, I should probably give some background…
What is a wiki?
In the simplest sense, a wiki [...]

It’s been a while since I had a real “ramble” post, but considering the occasion, hopefully people will forgive me for trying to cover a lot of ground in one post.
Happy Birthday to Rain City Guide!!!
It’s been one year since I wrote my first post (Hello World, of course) on Rain City Guide. I [...]

I made some changes to the site tonight:

Added a Home Search Panel to the sidepanel. You may have to hit “refresh” to get this to show up right!
Added a Print Post Option. I hate the idea of people printing out a blog… Blogs are meant for reading on screen where you can [...]

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And following John’s lead, here were the five most popular posts on Rain City Guide (in terms of total hits) in February:

Zillow’s Impact On Day 1 (890)
How well does Zillow Zestimate your home? (609)
Redfin - Something to think about. (573)
Zats really cool… (541)
3 Easy Steps to Stop Zillow from Publishing the [...]

In my mind, the best thing about Rain City Guide is that the site has grown into a wonderful community with a constant stream of interesting posts and comments. In no way do I want to mess with this!
However, I’m a slightly concerned with the rise in anonymous commenters on Rain City Guide because [...]

Jon Strum of the LA Real Estate blog put together a very interesting article manifesto that outlines what it will take for real estate agents can be successful in the future. It is a fascinating article and was picked up by both the NYT real estate blog and Redfin’s blog.
While he was [...]

You might have noticed that I’ve done some updating here at Rain City Guide… (Didn’t I just do that?).
What inspired me? WordPress came out with another major update (from version 1.5 to 2.0), and I decided to upgrade. Then, while I was making those changes, I just kept going until I had implemented a [...]

Several real estate agents (and one broker) approached me last week with an interest in contributing to Rain City Guide. Just about every one of them said they had noticed that Rain City Guide has a very high rankings on some key Google search terms, like Agent Recommendations (#1), Seattle Real Estate (#6), and [...]

Robbie Paplin of Caffeinated Software has built a great home search tool for the Seattle area and he put some very interesting posts together giving background on his effort, but I’m not sure he’s done a great job letting everyone know just how cool it is.
So, let me clarify the situation… The search [...]