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Fizber.com Strategy: Supersede Competition With Web 2.0 Technology 2007-10-01 04:08:22 Launched in July 2007, for- sale-by-owner (FSBO) website Fizber.com is utilizing Web 2.0 technology to vie aggressively with its competition. Fizber.com Web 2.0 services include Fizber Video, integrated Google Maps, Bird’s Eye View, City Profiles and Blogs. Created in the late 1990’s, most of Fizber.com’s competitor websites are stuck in the Web 1.0 age. CEO Antony Fizber took note of this when creating Fizber.com. By taking advantage of 21st century technology, he hopes to create more efficient advertising tools for each owner, thereby increasing their chances to sell homes sooner. For instance, Fizber created Fizber Video as a part of Fizber.com’s home listing services. Sellers can make a simple video tour of their house and upload it directly to their home listing page. The tour can also be shown on YouTube.com for additional exposure. Fizber.com uses integrated Google Maps so buyers can view the physical location of a house right from each home listing page. ...

TRUSTe® Privacy Seal Program Certifies Fizber.com 2007-10-01 04:03:51 TRUSTe® Privacy Seal Program Certifies Fizber.com FSBO website receives licensee certification from privacy protection company. TRUSTe, a privacy policy certification company has approved and verified Fizber.com as being in compliance with TRUSTe’s strict program requirements for privacy protection. Fizber.com, a for-sale-by-owner website, requires home sellers to register with them when purchasing their services. As most for-sale-by-owner websites on the Internet, Fizber.com asks for email addresses, physical addresses and phone numbers when opening an account for sellers. TRUSTe certifies and monitors web site privacy and email policies, monitors practices, and resolves thousands of consumer privacy problems every year. As a TRUSTe Certified Licensee, Fizber.com can now offer their customers the confidence that their privacy is protected within industry standards. “It should be common sense for any company asking for personal information over the Internet,” sa ...

Home Sellers Get a Break From the Market Crunch with Fizber Free Listings 2007-10-01 04:00:58 As a response to current market trends, for-sale-by-owner website offers one week free membership. As the real estate market tightens across the U.S., Fizber.com, a for-sale-by-owner website, is offering one month of free home listings to ease the cash flow out of seller’s pockets. From September 3, 2007 through September 9, 2007, Fizber Basic Package will be free for the first month. According to The Wall Street Journal Online, foreclosures and defaults have been increasing due to rising interest rates and falling property values. Many homeowners with subprime loans are experiencing dramatic jumps in their interest rates and as a result are facing mortgages they can’t meet. To avoid foreclosure, these homeowners are rapidly putting their houses on the market. As far as Julia Foster, PR Manager of Fizber.com, is concerned, these sellers need all the help they can get. By giving homeowners a Basic Package free for the first month, she hopes they’ll be inspired to utili ...

Fizber.com Integrates Webcam Feature Into Home Listings 2007-10-01 03:47:51 For-sale-by-owner website utilizes webcam technology to give buyers live city views. Fizber.com, a for-sale-by-owner website, announces the integration of live webcam views into their home listings, allowing buyers to observe the city or town a property is located in without having to drive there. Live webcams are present in virtually every city or suburb across the United States and this feature will be included in every home listing package. Before the Internet, buyers had to make several trips to a property to observe what an area was like at different times of the day or night. But with the live webcam feature on Fizber.com, buyers can see the personality of an area at any time. “The technology is available, so it only makes sense to use it,” says Michael Robinson, Marketing Consultant at Fizber.com. “Our society has gotten extremely busy and the Internet has become a huge convenience to our fast-paced life-styles. The thought of driving back and forth to an area ...

Fizber.com Introduces Home Listing Audio File Upload 2007-10-01 03:44:20 For-sale-by-owner website announces addition of descriptive audio files. Fizber.com, a Real Estate 2.0 website, is expanding their Web 2.0 services with the addition of an audio file feature. Easily uploaded onto a seller’s home listing page, audio narration gives sellers a technologically advanced alternative to standard home descriptions. The majority of for-sale-by-owner websites have written descriptions included in their home listings that vary from short and vague to extensive and detailed. But not everyone is comfortable with his or her writing skills. By offering sellers the option to verbally describe a house in a lively and personable narration, for sale by owner website expands sellers’ ability to communicate with buyers effectively. “Some sellers are simply more comfortable describing their property verbally than having to compose a well-written description,” says Antony Fizber, CEO. “And with an audio file, the passion they have for the proper ...

Dealing With Nasty Neighbors 2007-10-01 03:11:46 Even the most beautiful house, in the most beautiful town can become a nightmare if you live next door to the wrong kind of people. Dealing with nasty neighbors can be enough to drive even the most peaceable person to distraction. If you find yourself in this situation, or would like to do your very best to avoid it, I hope I can give you some practical advice. Here are the five big offenders in the world of nasty neighbors? 1. The racket maker: screaming moms, fighting spouses, horn honking and tire squealing drivers, loud music fanatics and late-night partiers 2. The property line fanatic: someone who trims boundary trees and sends you the bill 3. The slob, like one who lets the grass grow, puts trash out days in advance, and leaves garbage cans unlocked 4. The careless pet owner 5. The extreme weirdo: drunks, drug dealers, and the neighbor that never says anything If you don’t want to end up with one of the above as your new neighbor, here?s what you can do to spot them earl ...

Zephyr Weekly Sales Reports - September 26th, 2007 2007-09-28 17:38:07 Below is Zephyr Real Estate’s sales data for the previous week. These are NOT properties that have closed, just listings on which a purchase agreement has been ratified and the property has gone into escrow. It was another busy week, but the lowest number of multiple offers we’ve had in about 6 weeks. This seems to mesh with my theory that there are still plenty of serious buyers in the market, but the tire-kickers have taken a break. Also to note that while only 16% of sales had multiple offers, 40% sold over asking. So sellers are still pricing low in order to have buyers offer over asking. (And yes, a seller has a right to refuse an offer at asking price… there’s no law against it). Here’s this week’s numbers, and check back next week to see how they change. 16% of sales received multiple offers 33% of sales sold under the asking price 27% of sales sold at the asking price 40% of sales sold over the asking price ...

A brief history of your Blown Mortgage Scribe, Part 4 2007-09-28 15:08:07 A lot of people ask me about my background and how and why I am in mortgages. Most people want to know why someone in the mortgage industry has a web site like Blown Mortgage. I guess its a little weird having a site that is primarily focused on the negative aspects of the industry in which I work. So with out further ado, for those of you that care about who is writing this blog please enjoy this autobiographical article that should shed some light on who I am and why I write Blown Mortgage. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 - Today PART 4 A Sea Change After reaching some exceptional heights (we were named #4 in the nation Spring of 2006 in wholesale delivery for one of the largest mortgage companies in the world) we noticed a change.  It really began in the summer of 2006 and picked up speed in the fall.  Our consultants weren’t closing sales, complaints began to rise from our customers, and we experienced some of our first losing months as a company.  We had brought in som ... History

Ranting & Raving… I Guess it WILL get you Top Blogging Awards! 2007-09-28 13:18:00 Well… September was a good month for Home Staging Rants & Ravings. We are very pleased and honored to announce that this site was ranked in the TOP 100 Real Estate Blog Sites by International Listings. International Listings is “the premier listing service for luxury homes world wide.” WOW ! We are honored to be recognized by such a premier real estate site. International Listings scoured the web to find the best of the best in the following categories for their TOP !)) BLOGS: Appraisals, Entertainment, Green Ideas, Home buyers, Home Improvement, Doom & Boom, Investing, Marketing, Mortgage Brokers, News, Niche Markets, Technology and the Title Industry. This blog can was categorized in the Niche Marketing catigory. So thank you for the TOP 100 AWARD! Keep watching… we plan on writing more compelling blogs and being a powerful voice for home staging and the home staging industry in the future. Stage It Forward… Me ... Amp  Blogging

Existing housing sales down 4.1% 2007-09-28 10:33:29 Resale housing sales remained strong in August even though they were off record highs in July, says the Canadian Real Estate Association. Seasonally adjusted sales dropped 4.1 per cent in August to 43,257 units from July’s 45,102. Resale housing sales activity was down in most provinces, particularly in Ontario and Quebec. But the real estate association says sales in August were up 7.7 per cent over sales in the same month of 2006. The decline may mean the red-hot real estate market is returning to more normal activity levels, CREA says. Meanwhile, the national average price of a residence rose 11.2 per cent year-over-year in August to $305,823, according to data from CREA’s multiple listing service. ...

Jim Cramer “Don’t You Dare Buy Now “¦ You’ll Lose Money”� 2007-09-28 08:41:21 Cramer defends himself against a demand of a New Jersey based Realtor group to retract his Today Show comments about not buying homes right now. His gift of aphorism is brilliant for our day and age of 2-second sound bites. Of course a New Jersey Realtor group had to complain that Mr. Cramer was inaccurate because “It is a buyer’s market” - which just makes me laugh. Someone at these Realtor associations should put up a sign to stop and think before sending anything to the press; they just look really, really ridiculous. Most of the Realtors I have met personally are smart, savvy, experienced, friendly, funny, dynamic and fun to be around. It is amazing that quality people allow themselves to be led by a bunch of monkeys. Enjoy the video: Share This ...

A Business Trip to New York”¦ 2007-09-28 05:39:58 Visiting New York always makes me feel like an impostor. I’m neither gritty nor suave. Yesterday, the subway broke down deep in the Bronx, and I looked so hapless on the street outside the station that a woman drove me over the Henry Hudson bridge to the A train, where a young stocking clerk told me how to treat subway “predators” who “roam the A” (”like children, like people who are under you… because they are under you”). Today started at a trendy Soho restaurant where all the media and publishing giants, in pink ties and striped shirts, spend an hour with the New York Times over a pastry. I had been waiting 20 minutes for a meeting. Two impeccably dressed men were shown to the adjoining table, and I perked up for some high-powered gossip. They surveyed the situation and murmured in French that they wanted to be moved. Of course, the waiter understood them too. Somehow I didn’t feel put down until, responding to a welcoming gest ...

Florida Is Most Popular FSBO State 2007-09-28 04:21:37 Fizber Announces Top FSBO States in the U.S. MIAMI BEACH, FL September 26, 2007 - Fizber.com, a for-sale-by-owner (FSBO) website, has recently made a research on the most popular FSBO markets in the U.S. In the list of top FSBO selling, no-commission states, Florida has an edge over New York, with over 2600 homes for sale by owner currently listed. States like Illinois, New Jersey, and California are also on the rise when it comes to FSBO listings. Close to 25% of all homes sold in the United States are being sold by their owners without commission, and homebuyers are using the Internet more than ever now as a powerful searching tool to find homes in the areas they want to move in. Going FSBO in Florida is nearly as popular as using a realtor nowadays. FSBO, by the way, means “for sale by owner” and indicates the seller is willing to forgo real estate agents to avoid paying commissions. In short, the buyer gets a better deal and the seller makes more money. The FSBO market ...

Buyers Now Have a Little More Control 2007-09-28 00:45:06 Now is a great time to buy a house. Prices are falling, and so are mortgage rates. Millions of houses are for sale, and sellers are getting anxious. Alternatively, you could say: This is a bad time to buy a house. Prices and rates might be lower in a few months. With more than 4 million houses on the market nationally, and more being added daily, sellers are bound to become desperate. Why not wait them out? In many places, it’s a buyer’s market in real estate, with sellers outnumbering potential purchasers. The resulting downward pressure on prices makes buyers cheerful. But it complicates matters for buyers, too. In some markets, there are simply far too many choices. Even more bewildering, buyers wonder if they should wait a few months. Buyers worry that if they buy too soon and the home prices reduce by the time they go to settlement, they will have negative equity in their new home. Regardless of these worries, in every market there are people who are serious about buy ...

What a surprise 2007-09-27 22:47:02 As expected, bankrupt “alternative business model” real estate firm Foxtons blames the poor economy for their failure rather than lack of planning, incompetent management or faulty business model. A Darling of Discount Real Estate Rides Into the Sunset Foxtons: Ex-Cons and Strippers turned Listing Agents www.We Hate Foxtons.com Foxton agents’ dirty tricks. (Foxtons in Britain) Foxtons NJ: “Mean, Useless Morons” Foxtons complaints (Blagger.com) Foxton’s? (City Data) Misrepresentation, unprofessional, poor marketing Foxtons fails in Houston (Times Herald Record) Foxton’s is the Anti-Christ Rip-Off Report ...