Powered by Olark

From the category archives:

Real Estate

Picture of the Day – REBarCamp Nashville

by Joe Spake on April 30, 2010

Brian Copeland lays out the ground rules for Tennessee’s first REBar Camp, Nashville – 4/28/2010
More photos from the event at http://www.flickr.com/photos/joespake/sets/72157623838064525/

Thanks for coming back! Please leave a comment and consider subscribing to the RSS feed.

{ 0 comments }

BarCamps are user-generated conferences, with the sessions an presenters/facilitators determined on the day of the conference.  Bar camps are participatory and geared to the needs and skills of those who attend.  The essence of the Bar Camp movement was captured in this week’s REBar Camp Nashville.  REBar Camps are real estate oriented, and while I [...]

{ 4 comments }

Last week I attended RETSO (#RETSO)  – Real Estate Tech South in Duluth (Atlanta burbs), Georgia.  The conference was extended to 2 days this year and was jam-packed with the best real estate thinkers and speakers in the country.  This was not a RE BarCamp, but a well organized and tightly scheduled conference.  Organized for [...]

{ 1 comment }

A Midtown Target? yeah, right.

by Joe Spake on March 30, 2010

We Midtowners can keep on dreaming about being able to buy decent underwear, cute bed and bath items, and toys for the kiddies, west of of East Parkway at our very own big-box department store. The vast urban area roughly bounded by McNeil, Poplar, Court and Cleveland was to be the site of not [...]

{ 0 comments }

So you want to buy a short sale?

by Joe Spake on January 28, 2010

Re-posted from http://memphisrealestatebuzz.com
Second only to Foreclosures, Short Sales create a lot of buzz among investors and home buyers looking for the almighty good deal. A short sale is a property that is sold for less than is owed on it. Pretty simple concept: you bought a house for $200,000 in 2004, with [...]

{ 1 comment }

Don’t forget the Moo cards and Moleskine

by Joe Spake on November 10, 2009

I am heading for San Diego for the National Association of Realtors convention for the next few days.  I hate packing for any kind of trip, but the final rush to pack the right clothes, the mandatory cool kid accessories (Moo and Moleskine), the various chargers, batteries, music, spare glasses, etc., etc., usually ends about [...]

{ 1 comment }

Those folks at Facebook keep slipping in goodies. After the latest land rush for vanity URL’s for pages, FB pages seem to have gotten more attention. Go to your page, and in the left column under your logo picture in the Edit Page section, you will now see Add Fan Box to your [...]

{ 8 comments }

Twitter and Me on the 10 O’clock News

by Joe Spake on May 26, 2009

Earlier this month, local news station, WHBQ, Fox 13, asked me to do an interview on my use of Twitter in my real estate business. They didn’t offer to let me edit, and they took out my preaching about the appropriate and inappropriate ways to use Social Media, but I think it is a [...]

{ 2 comments }

Snooze and LoseI just went online to request a review of my 2009 Tax appraisal from Cheyenne Johnson’s Office. Mine jumped 23.5% from the last appraisal, and that figure seems like a low increase compared to those of my Midtown friends, some of whom reported 50%+ increases, and none reported less than a 2-digit [...]

{ 0 comments }

SEE Y’ALL AT ROLLER DERBY SATURDAY NIGHT!
Joe Spake is a proud sponsor of Memphis Roller Derby
Facebook LinkedIn Twitter

{ 0 comments }

Web Analytics