Ann Marie Clements of RE/MAX Realty Group in Maryland was the Featured Real Estate Agent of the Month in our March Agent Success Newsletter.

Here’s the story:

If you ask Ann Marie what she thinks of today’s conditions, she’ll tell you that it’s great market for a Realtor®. After 20 years in the business, Ann Marie’s business is growing every year – it’s already up 40% from last year!

Ann Marie Clements was also just featured on the March 2008 cover of REALTOR® Magazine in which she discussed her success with finding new clients on Facebook.

How is Ann Marie able to be so productive?

She relies on two main things: referrals and HomeGain.
“I just sold one house for $700k and another one for $480k, both as a result of HomeGain leads,” said Ann Marie. Continue reading this post

ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA FORECLOSURE UPDATE:

The Orange County real estate market now consists of mostly bank owned properties for sale.

The banks are scrambling to rid themselves of this massive inventory. Listing agents are presently allowed to list at whatever price they want and a lot of them are listing way below market value.

This doesn’t mean the banks will take this low offer. In fact, I can almost guarantee they won’t. Unscrupulous agents are doing this just to get offers in and scoop up buyers (new clients).

I am seeing multiple offers on REO’s to be the norm right now, any where from 90 to 180 days or more for the banks to get back to the offerers.

What does that mean? Continue reading this post

In the past two weeks since I’ve posted The Case Against Blogging and The Failed Promise of Real Estate 2.0, I’ve learned that I don’t know too much about blogging and that many bloggers don’t know too much about HomeGain.

I’d like to thank the many bloggers who are assisting HomeGain and myself in our education about blogging, including:

• Our Guest Bloggers: Brian B., Joe F., Mary M., Pat K., Nicole N., Jay T., Kevin B., and Diane C.

• Our HomeGain Agent contributors:
  Brian K., Eric P., Jeffrey B., Mark J., Barry K., Jerry R., Joe C. and Mitch R.

• Comment contributors to the HomeGain Blog: : Todd C, Brian Bl. Sara B., Missy C., Mitch R., Tony V., Anne Marie C., Rebecca L., Ken S., Laurie M., John F., Steve M., John M. Jerry R., Bob M., Rudy B. and Rich J.

• ActiveRain’ers: Rich J and Laurie M.

• Sellsius Real Estate Blog: Greg T. and Teresa B.

• Rain City Guide: Ardell D., Dustin L. and Kevin T.

• Bloodhound Blog: Jason L., Mike F. Morgan B., Thomas J. ,Lane B., Sean P. and Benn from Agent Genius

• The Notorious R.O.B., Rob H.

• 1000 Watt Consulting: Marc D. and Brian B.

I look forward to our continued conversations.

Thanks again.

Louis Cammarosano

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Today we announced in a press release that HomeGain.com received more than 6MM website visits last month, making us the second most visited real estate website to start off the year, according to Hitwise.

We attribute this number to our recently redesigned website and access to tools that allow visitors to:

• Get instant estimates of homes values and connect with AgentView real estate agents to receive information regarding the home selling process

• Find and compare Realtors using AgentEvaluator™

• View MLS listings displayed by thousands of BuyerLink™ real estate agents and brokers

• Determine the best home improvements with Home Sale Maximizer™

Let’s not forget the latest HomeGain resource, this real estate blog, as well.

On the press release Louis commented: “We are pleased to announce the launch of our guest blogger program that brings to HomeGain some of the best real estate bloggers in the country. To date we have featured Continue reading this post

HomeGain is committed to providing the best marketing tips and real estate information to its agents. We know that HomeGain is not the only way to for Realtors to attract customers.

In line with that thinking, we are proud to have Jay Thompson, aka the Phoenix Real Estate Guy, as the next guest blogger on the HomeGain Real Estate Blog.

Presenting Jay Thompson:

Jay is a REALTOR® with Century 21 Aware Realty in Phoenix, Arizona, and a devoted real estate blogger. Jay’s real estate weblog is called The Phoenix Real Estate Guy and he also contributes to other real estate blogs including Bloodhound Blog, Zillow’s Geek Estate Blog, and the Phoenix Real Estate Technology Exchange weblog.

He recently founded NARWisdom.com, a weblog venue for real estate professionals to openly discuss the National Association of Realtors. Jay is also the founder Continue reading this post

Well, where do I begin…or, how do I begin? This is my very first blog post ever!

If it wasn’t for my new friend, Vanessa, at HomeGain, I wouldn’t even be here right now. She called and convinced me that I’d make a good “blogger.”.

“Why?,” I ask. What exactly is a blog?

My wife is always telling me that I’m a “natural” blogger. I love to talk with people and I love to write.

Maybe it’s my journalism degree or that I use to be a radio announcer, or that I am also a DJ and emcee at wedding receptions on weekends, or a retired Navy Public Affairs Officer and speech writer for admirals and generals, or a present day Realtor with lots of contacts.

I don’t know. But I have heard that “blogging” is the thing to do in today’s world. There are many popular real estate blogs out there, and it seems readership is growing larger all the time.

It’s one thing to be a reader, though, and another to be a writer. Continue reading this post