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Zillow may have fun playing around in the office, but unless you have a George Foreman Grill in your office….
 
 

Sammy, our senior closer and LPO, shows her skills of fine grilling. And, can any Zillow folks run a John Deere excavator as Lynlee shows? (and yes, she can run it)

I thought you may all be interested in what Rich Barton had to say about starting (YET ANOTHER… not Barton, just in general) a real estate company. You can see the entire conversation about ‘Starting a new real estate venture‘ on Inman today.
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I’ve been waiting for Ardell to do a follow up post on Blog Tour USA’s stop in Seattle.   What was I thinking?  Ardell was the host and an incredible one at that.  She was far too busy to be snapping photos all day long (like I was).   Without further ado, I present to you Blog Tour USA, [...]

I’ve been asked to speak before the California Association of Realtors (CAR) committee on MLS/Computer and Business Technology this Thursday in Sacramento, CA and I’m just now coming to the conclusion I may be in over my head! Despite the slightly off-topic nature (California MLS issues as oppose to Seattle MLS [...]

In the next couple of days, we may be seeing that “Cease and Desist Order” lifted in Arizona. Stay tuned.

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 [...]

Zillow.com Launches Home Q&A
“Ask Questions, Share Answers”at the heart of numerous new features harnessing knowledge of agents, homeowners and neighbors!”
“Home Q&A is the ability for anyone to ask questions and share information and insight about more than 70 million U.S. homes.”
(and you all thought The Redfin Mavens writing dignified little articles on homes for sale [...]

Wonder what’s going on over there on 999 3rd Ave, Ste 4600, Seattle?
The Bloodhounds got the scoop, and all I got was a bunch of interesting coding questions…

If I had millions of dollars like Jim and Shirley Wilson now have (254M Powerball this week) I would create what I feel is a void in market today. I would take a Zillow like property evaluation tool and add a social networking back end to it. This was actually some of the conversations Dustin, [...]

Before Reba posted her article on the upcoming House Values layoffs, I recently ran across an interesting article about HouseValues on MSN Investor. It was basically a press release from Zacks Investment Research that stated HouseValues (SOLD) made their list of the top 5 stocks to sell now. Needless to say, this is not a glowing recommendation.
Also during that [...]