St. Paul Real Estate: The Carnival of Real Estate for consumer content

Welcome to the 3rd carnival of consumer related real estate content. What is a carnival? Carnival's are opportunities for blog writers from all over the world to show case their work, and a way to give recognition to the very best content. St. Paul Real Estate Blog is proud to host this weeks event. The deadline for next week is noon on Monday Febuary 26, 2007

My top pick, and I can honestly say it is very hard to have a top pick, is this creative post submitted by Jonathan Greene of Tampa Area Real Estate Blog: Real Opinionated, Home Selling: How to Hone Your Ninja Skills , influenced by the writings of Confucius, Jonathan offer sound advice to home sellers.

Ana Hays, of 3 Oceans -San Francisco Bay Area Real Estate, weighs is with Shopping for houses Isn't Like Shopping at Nordstrom's. Ana teaches us how to choose and agent, and the importance of choosing a good one.

Next we have an excellent post by Steve Leung How Home Buyers and Sellers Get Trapped in Straw Scams of Silicon Valley Real Estate Blog – 1SiliconValley.com, Steve explains straw buyer scams, and how they hurt regular folks.

Jonathan Dalton, of Phoenix Arizona Real Estate, encourages us to have a Clue by explaining Clue reports in Clue? You better get one . These reports are generated by the insurance industry and show us insurance claim histories on homes.

Leanne Paynter, of South Florida Real Estate Voice demonstrates that a great Realtor®, can save her clients some money by educating them and she does this with her Top 10 ways to save money when buying or selling real estate. Florida is a popular retirement destination for those of us who live in the frozen North land, when we get ready to spend our winters in Florida, Leanne will be our Realtor®.

From Athol Kay of The Real Estate Guide we give honorable mention to: Death-by-days on the market. I think his post spoke to me with the dialog between the excited buyer and tired Realtor®

Thanks for all of the excellent entries, you kept me reading into the wee hours of the morning. This Carnival helps us all, it raises the bar and encourages blog writers to write posts that are focused on educating consumers, which is what we are supposed to do as we guide them through the home buying and selling process as a real estate or mortgage professional. Everyone who wrote such a post is a winner. Enter next weeks carnival at: http://blogcarnival.com/bc/cprof_1009.html

Comments

Jonathan Greene said at February 20, 2007 at 02:56 PM

Yay! That's our first win ever. We're so happy, we might just give the ninjas the day off!
Leanne Paynter said at February 20, 2007 at 03:54 PM

This is awesome! Thank you, Teresa... I'm very honored to have been among the winners, especially since this is the first blog carnival I've entered. I'll have to check out the other links. Thanks for hosting this! Maybe I will volunteer do so one day, too.
Jonathan Dalton said at February 21, 2007 at 08:29 AM

Appreciate the mention, Teresa ... we're starting to get the hang of this.
Teresa Boardman said at February 21, 2007 at 09:26 AM

J - thought your post was excellent. Your clue report topic is something that I should have written about a long time ago. I hope my readers go to your blog to learn more. Thanks so much for submitting it to the carnival.
Kevin Boer said at March 03, 2007 at 05:41 PM

Somewhat belatedly, I wanted to thank you for featuring Ana Hays' post. It was her first one, and her great authorship skills are already evident.