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We try to keep up on real estate trends lots of places, not just here in Metro Detroit. Here are a few of the blogs (there are more) that we like to track:

Charlotte Real Estate
SoundBiteBlog
Eastern Connecticut Real Estate
Real Estate Undressed
miBirmingham.com
Manhattan Real Estate
Delaware Ohio Real Estate
Virginia Real Estate Homes
St Paul Real Estate
Henderson Real Estate
Cleveland Real [...]

A few weeks ago another Realtor in the Birmingham MI real estate market referred to me derogatorily as a “blogger”, somehow implying that blogging is not something that a real estate agent does to sell homes. Oh, how wrong he is. And I am OK that he does not know better. Another [...]

Recently a very successful Birmingham Realtor asked me, “Maureen, how come you have been quoted so much in the newspaper lately? Is it your…ummm…ahh…(she struggled to find the word) … blog?” Um, yes, Mrs. Successful Realtor, it just might be that as I have not been sending any gifts to newspaper reporters lately, nor would [...]

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 [...]

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Here comes a post that has nothing to do with real estate or metro Detroit or Oakland County. Some times we just have to do something just for fun, right?
Today miOaklandCounty.com is about to pass a memorable milestone. Akismet, our spam comment blocking program is about to devour its 15,000 piece of comment [...]

The schools are closed here in Birmingham today, so I’ve been doing fun things with my 3 year old like making bluish-green raspberry oatmeal for breakfast. She is in a colored food phase.
The color theme continues, as I am tickled pink right now. See photo below for proof.
Larry Cragun of Real Estate Undressed and [...]

In the ever changing world of miOaklandCounty’s sidebars you will now find Meebo. It is all the rage in the blogging world right now, and its popping up on real estate blogs as quickly as for sale signs on front lawns in South East Michigan. Ouch. I should not have said that.
Anyway, [...]

Two of my favorite bloggers have just joined forces to create Sound Bite Blog. Catchy name, huh?
Mark Flanders is a mortgage guy and Rich Jacobson is a Realtor, and they live and work on the Kitsap Peninsula which is near Seattle. I’ve been reading them for months on another platform and they’ve introduced [...]

This is only a test.
The last few days I have been having troubles with wordpress, again. I’ve got two posts that just are not showing up even though they say they are ‘published’. So I am tossing this one up to see what it does. Sorry to bore you with this.
UPDATE:  You [...]

I have been in and out of participating in the Carnival of Real Estate. Mostly out lately. But I figured it would be a good thing to get back into the swing of things since I am hosting it in March. So I zipped off an entry this week and as I [...]

Regular readers will notice a new look on miOaklandCounty today. The limey green was getting to me and Dave Smith from the Real Estate Blog Lab warned me that my images were not showing up with internet explorer. I profess to be a Firefox gal myself, and I don’t venture back over to [...]