Rain City Guide

The most popular articles on RCG from this past year as measured in total hits:

February 27: 8 Common Mistakes Made by Real Estate Bloggers
March 22: Why Google Base Matters
October 24: Popcorn Ceiling Removal
February 13: Real Estate Photography — Camera Choice
February 8: Zillow’s Impact on Day 1
February 24: A Closing Date Without a Closing
March 1: [...]

Here’s a few stories from around the real estate blogsphere I found interesting…
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Phil is obviously have some fun in Boise, although others may find his anatomy of a listing he won’t take more relevant to recent RCG conversations…
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Jonathan sends out a blogger’s prayer and some really nice words about RCG.. Thanks!
Fortunately, I ran into [...]

I’ve been a little busy lately, so I haven’t had a lot of time to give an update on some of my favorite conversations around the web… Nonetheless, I’m back for an abrivated version (i.e. only 9 articles instead of the usual 10)…
Beau turned me on to a great article by Jay regarding the 30-year [...]

Matt Goyer, of Urbnlivn fame, just accepted a position at Redfin. I wonder if he’ll keep up urbnlivn, or quit in favor of the Redfin blog like Rob. Just reading that article about Rob reminds me how much things have changed in the past six months…
Anthony Allan put together a nice post [...]

It’s been a long while since I posted about traffic on RCG. Two reasons come to mind… One, I’ve been swamped in starting my new job and never got around to updating my excel sheet and two, I knew we weren’t seeing much growth, so what’s the point
However, I took [...]

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 [...]

As many of you know, I’m normally a huge fan of using WordPress (in both the hosted and self-hosted formats), but tonight I’m not feeling so generous…

WordPress blogs can be hacked! (If you came here yesterday, then you know what I mean!)
It’s open-source with no one to call when your site goes down, especially not [...]

There’s definitely a tech bent to today’s list…

Starting off with Niki’s interesting take on the Reply.com launch. Niki runs Homethinking, a site dedicated to letting users review agents. I had a chance to talk with him at SF Connect over a beer (or two or three) and got to learn a fair bit about [...]

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 [...]

PreFab housing is a foreign concept to me, so I decided to investigate…

“There is no single definition of prefab. In fact, one could argue that almost every house built today has elements of prefabrication, since components such as roof trusses and windows are built off-site. Prefab can perhaps be best understood as a continuum with [...]