Carnival of Real Estate #167

Thank you to Drew Meyers of Zillow.com for allowing Hawaii Life Real Estate Services to host the carnival of real estate this week.

Before getting to the top real estate posts for November 23, 2009 I have to point out that there were a lot submissions and many of them deserved to be included. For those that didn’t make it, I’m sorry, but I can only choose 5.

Homeowner Confidence Out of Whack – But Can you Blame Them?
Amy Bohutinsky of Zillow.com
Very interesting article that teaches us how, “homeowners’ perception of their own home’s value compares to reality.”

Home Mortgage Interest Deductions To Be Reduced
Bob Schwartz of Brokerforyou.com
Obama’s new budget plan, “includes a proposal to limit the tax rate at which high-income taxpayers can take itemized deductions to 28 percent — and the initial reserve fund would be funded in part through this provision. This provision would raise $318 billion over 10 years.”

10 Tips I Learned From My First Listing Video Shoot
Joshua Ferris over at Geekestateblog.com
Not only do I believe video is the future of real estate, I believe it’s the future of the Internet. Joshua provides some great tips learned threw his own experience shooting video for Hudson Valley real estate.

Does RPR (Realtors Property Resource) = The Death of the MLS?
Ki over at Techforagents.com
A new nationwide MLS is on everybody’s mind (OK, at lease on mine). There was also a submission regarding this over at AgentGenius.com, but at the time of the post their site was down for maintenance.

Welcome to “Flopping” the Latest Short Sale Flipping Scheme
Cindy Jones of Varealestatetalk.com
How much trouble can we get ourselves into?

Hope you enjoyed the posts. Thanks to all who submitted.