by Joe Spake on January 10, 2012
Last post on Memphis Real Estate Buzz
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If you have come to this URL – http://MemphisRealEstateBuzz.com for the last few years for my local and national real estate news and comments, thank you! This is the last post on this blog. No I am not giving up real estate blogging – just changing the blog’s URL and look.
I am integrating Memphis Real Estate Buzz as a sub-domain of my main site, http://spake.com. From now on you can find my real estate posts, and hopefully other interesting posts at http://blog.spake.com. This blog will be automatically redirected there.
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So, I will see you on the other side. I will leave this site up for a while, to make sure all the permalinks to posts transfer properly to a new and permanent location.
Joe Spake is a Memphis, Tennessee based Consultant, Real Estate Broker, and Blogger. Call 901.214.5563 for a consultation or click to make a social connection.
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by Joe Spake on December 27, 2011
Plan for Sears mail order home
If you offer real estate Search on a real estate blog, it seems that the natural thing for visitors to do is Search, many times overlooking the brilliant insights of the Realtor/blogger in favor of looking at glitzy presentations of available dream homes.
I did have a few posts that stood out from the pack in 2011. My 2 most popular post here on Memphis Real Estate Buzz were originally posted in 2010:
1. Your house may have come from Sears – is a primer on the Sears “kit” homes of the early 20th century, and an introduction to identifying if your house may have been shipped in on a train.
2. Memphis Lustron – Mid-Centrury steel – about one of a couple of intact, post-WWII, all-metal homes left in Memphis.
3. Realtor Association gets deeper into politics (4/20/2011) addresses the National Association of Realtors increased political activity.
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Joe Spake is a Memphis, Tennessee based Consultant, Real Estate Broker, and Blogger. Call 901.214.5563 for a consultation or click to make a social connection.
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by Joe Spake on December 27, 2011
This scam has been going on on Craigslist, and probably other sites for years, but it hit one of my listings yesterday. Fortunately someone alerted me early that the listing was being offered for rent at about a third of market rent. Of course it was a scam, perpetrated by someone off shore. It generated 9 calls from my yard sign from people who had seen the ad and driven by the house, so, obviously, lots of folks search Craigslist for rentals and they all seemed to think they had found the ultimate deal on a rental.
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