TRANSPARENT REAL ESTATE: Recent Comments

Comment on New Book for Realtors - Real Estate Unleashed

Paul Francis — 2011-02-23T06:34:44Z

Sounds well worth the read.. Carole and Shashank hit some key points in the video presentation that certainly tells me they get it.

Personally... it's nice to return to using basic financial concepts in analyzing real estate investments.. ;)

For $9.70.. I'm going to order it up. Almost cheaper then a gallon of gasoline.

Comment on Engage your community by giving them what they want: Daily Deals!

Green Bay Homes — 2010-09-06T18:28:57Z

Pat,

I've been experiencing a ton with RSS feeds and utilizing those to feed my social media channels with relevant content. It looks like you've personally taken this to a whole new level. At my website I do Foreclosure Video Tours which could be considered the Weekly Deal of the Week that gets posted to my mailchimp database that I've built up.

I'm going to subscribe to your other site as well. Hopefully we can have a conversation some time.

Comment on Engage your community by giving them what they want: Daily Deals!

Pat Kitano — 2010-08-30T03:35:42Z

Thanks Alex, this blog is no longer kept up as it should be. I do most of my writing at Media Transparent.com.

Comment on Engage your community by giving them what they want: Daily Deals!

Alex Cortez — 2010-08-30T01:51:30Z

Great information/tips, Pat. Engaging your audience (community) will keep them coming back for more and will refer others to your site.

By the way, those are some BIG changes to the layout of your site. It seems smoother/cleaner. Kudos.

Comment on Why HOW (Home Ownership Workshop) is the new WOW!

Alex Cortez — 2010-06-21T08:31:44Z

Shashank, nice post. With more and more information being made available online, today's potential home buyers are savvy and conduct a fair amount of research. But even so, there are still many consumers out there with either little or outdated information. Workshops like yours go a long way towards better educating first-time home buyers. Great job.

Comment on Guest post: Buying Real Estate While in College: A Very Possible Dream

Tim Smith — 2010-06-14T20:19:50Z

Real estate investing is a great thing for college students. If they can find a burnt out owner they might get it nothing down with owner financing. It won't usually have cash flow but they'll get principal paydown and eventually appreciation.

Comment on Why HOW (Home Ownership Workshop) is the new WOW!

Realtor in Las Vegas — 2010-06-14T06:55:52Z

Very interesting..

"Real Estate and Lending industry has always been ridiculed for not doing enough towards educating the home buyers.

In fact a lot of blame for the mortgage meltdown was placed on the fact that the buyers were not made aware of "what they were getting into."

Yes... real estate does not always go up 20%+ in price and refinancing after a year to get out of that bad mortgage really was not too smart.

The Ridiculing part has more to do with what I mention above concerning Real Estate Agents and Loan Officers selling something that was just not sustainable.

Let's throw in a Rent vs. Buy Calculation class??

Historical Appreciation rates?

Just some thoughts...

Comment on The Breaking News Network is meeting at Inman Connect in San Francisco

Pat Kitano — 2010-06-01T01:26:05Z

The discount code is still valid... please contact me for more information.

Comment on The Breaking News Network is meeting at Inman Connect in San Francisco

Mike Redmond Apartments — 2010-05-31T03:59:20Z

Is it too late to jump on this?

Comment on What Active Rain should do now

Bill Gassett — 2010-03-22T03:47:14Z

Hi Pat - I was looking at this comment I made here about Active Rain quite a long time ago. I still enjoy the site quite a bit but also have a Wordpress blog as well built on the Thesis theme and I love it especially for SEO. Check it out when you get a chance:)