I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Carnival of Real Estate #35

This week the Carnival of Real Estate has landed in Motown (or suburban Motown if you want to get technical) and in keeping with the motor city’s rich musical heritage we are awarding our weekly picks with theme songs of their own. Motown theme songs, of course. So sit back, relax, and prepare to let the Motown beat bounce through your head.

The official hosting guidelines prevent me from being as generous as Casey Kasem, so there will be no Top 40 on this week’s Billboard Charts.

In no particular order, I offer you my very pared down play list.

• I Want You Back by The Jackson 5

Nigel Swaby’s FHA Mortgages to the Rescue posted at Salt Lake Real Estate Blog reminds us that the “subprime implosion” makes this an excellent time to revisit FHA loans.

• STOP! In the Name of Love by The Supremes

Dan Melson’s How Can A Temporary Buydown Help Realtors and Agents? posted at Searchlight Crusade. Dan states that the only beneficiary of temporary rate buydowns are anxious sellers. Encouraging buyers to stretch beyond their means will likely be cause for regulatory review down the road for lenders, brokers and agents.

• You are the Sunshine of My Life by Stevie Wonder

Kevin Boer convinced me that the bubble bloggers have done his market a big favor in Thank You Ben, Patrick, and Keith, uber-Bubblistsas, For Helping My Clients Tremendously posted at 3 Oceans — San Francisco Bay Area Real Estate. Very creative use of charts and graphs, Kevin. Your consulting background shines through. I can get away with that as a fellow former consultant.

• Shop Around by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

Nina discusses Where to Live: Gay Ghetto or Integrated Neighborhood posted at Queercents.

• Get Ready by The Temptations

Teri Lussier, the Bloodhound’s protege presents Hi. I’m Teri… And I’m aghast. posted at BloodhoundBlog.

• Neighbor, Neighbor by Jimmy Hughes

Diane Tuman had me laughing and glad it was her, not me in Do You Have a Neighbor from Hell? posted at Zillow Blog.

• I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) by The Four Tops

Jay Thompson is testing out ‘Less is More’ with a stripped down web site that offers very little food for spiders. How will they find you Jay? Real Estate Web Sites: A Minimalist Approach is from The Phoenix Real Estate Guy.

• Too Many Fish in the Sea by the Marvelettes

Ben Kakimoto takes on what he sees as an over supply of condotels being developed in Seattle & Condotels – imploding explosion? posted at Seattle Housing Buzz.

• Reach Out (I’ll Be There) by the Four Tops

Jim Cronin presents 9 Examples Of How Blogging Will Have You Overcoming Real Estate Objections posted at Real Estate Tomato.

And, at the top of our charts:

• Someday We’ll Be Together by Diana Ross and the Supremes

Our top pick had to have something from The Supremes for his efforts. Michael Wurzer belts out a comprehensive discussion about the past, present and future of a consolidated MLS in Raging Regionals posted at FBS Blog.

Hosting the Carnival brought some surprises. In the ever exploding world of real estate blogging, I was exposed to some new blogs and I visited some that I have had on my ‘to do’ list for a while. I didn’t really expect posts about real estate from non-real estate bloggers, but there were a few. There was also someone who just submitted his whole real estate web site for consideration, which lead me to believe that he hadn’t actually read any of the previous Carnivals before submitting. There were some very good posts that did not make this week’s top 10 and they made my task all the more challenging.

Thanks to everyone for the great submissions and to Drew Meyers and Zillow Blog for starting and coordinating the Carnival of Real Estate. See you next week at Christine Forgione’s from NYHouses4Sale.

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Written by Maureen Francis
SKBK Sotheby's International Realty, 248.430.4450
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