Rain City Guide

The folks at Trulia, have just released a new feature that is cooler than the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field. In fact, I think Zillow and Realtor.com will need to order more photocopiers. Trulia has just released their Trulia Publisher Platform, and the coolness of this feature is that it lets publishers use their search [...]

The whole ruckus over the NWMLS no longer sending its member’s listings to realtor.com inspired many unlit pixels of commentary and many more wasted bytes of hard drive space. As I pondered a while ago, the industry appears to have a healthy appetite for technology. However, one of the comments was really insightful….
I still feel [...]

Jan at the logical dog has set up a petition that requests the NWMLS board to reverse it’s decision and continue sending listings to Realtor.com.
This got me thinking about the often-interesting dynamic between the “best interests” of brokers vs the “best interest” of agents, which is something I’ve heard Russ Cofano talk to quite [...]

First Zillow releases a new version of their web site.
Then Microsoft releases a new Virtual Earth (VE 3D in Firefox).
Then the a new Beta of Realtor.com is released.
Galen releases new ShackPrices features.
Ardell is using her Verizon EVDO card in Vegas, probably while playing the slots and sipping drinks with umbrellas in them.
Then I discover, Redfin [...]

As many of you probably already know, I’ve been searching for a secret weapon that will help me win the Project Blogger competition…
About a week ago, after many very interesting conversations (and many wonderful options!!!), I finally settled on my apprentice… literally.
Interestingly, I was inspired to “Go Hollywood” with my choice after Ardell picked [...]

Since I know there is more than a little bit of interest among RCG readers with regard to Realtor.com, I thought I’d point people to this video interview I just posted with Phil Dawley (Move’s Chief Technical Officer) and also one of the first employees. (direct link to video)
BTW, I’m up for more of [...]

Come spring, Realtor.com won’t have access to the Northwest MLS, so only houses from agents who pay to participate will show up. Trulia.com, a site the “crawls” broker web sites to fill its database, will probably have more listings from western Washington from that point going forward (the NWMLS still has the most).
Usually I believe [...]

Dustin’s comments in his last blog post got me thinking (which is never a good thing). Dustin said “You just set my blogging efforts at Move back by a year or so”. To which I reply, “I hope not! You don’t have that much time!”
One of the cool good things that has happened recently is the [...]

Yes, I am tardy with my report for Day 2. There was not much going on from an interesting meeting standpoint so I visited the tradeshow floor. For anyone that has not been to a Realtor tradeshow, it is certainly an experience. Flashing buttons, contests, people throwing free things at you. [...]

So, we’re moving to Southern California, and we have some obvious questions we want answered:

What neighborhoods should we be looking in?
What neighborhoods can we afford?

Here’s what we do know:

I’m going to work at location 30700 Russell Ranch Rd, Westlake Village, CA.
We can afford a home in the $500 to $600K [...]