Highland Beach Condos, Boca Raton Homes, Boca Raton Real Estate Advice and Opinions: September 2007

I just wanted to share some of my favorite blogs I subscribe to.  Most of them I have never spoken to or met, but i found their information bot useful and informative.  Who do you subscribe to and Why?  If you read a great post do you flag it and rate it or do you just comment on it?

 

	Atlanta Real Estate Blog - Jim Crawford REMAX Greater Atlanta Jim Crawford - Atlanta, GA Last Post: 09/23/07 09:34 PM          Posts: 286
	Laura's VA Views: Creative Agent Solutions.com Laura Monroe, Real Estate Virtual Assistant - Rocklin, CA Last Post: 09/21/07 08:09 PM          Posts: 52
	The Adviser - Share the knowledge - Houston Real Estate Erion Shehaj - Houston Real Estate Broker - Houston, TX Last Post: 09/21/07 10:01 AM          Posts: 118
	Home Loans & Stuff >> The Arizona Home Loan Lady Karen George - AZ Home Loans - Chandler, AZ Last Post: 09/20/07 03:20 PM          Posts: 109
	Sheila's Blog Sheila Aron - Boynton Beach, FL Last Post: 09/20/07 11:09 AM          Posts: 7
	T.U.P. Realty and real estate in Tupelo, MS Jeff Fulgham - Tupelo, MS Last Post: 09/13/07 10:18 PM          Posts: 103
	Nicolette 's Blog Nicolette Ceballos, Huntington Beach, Orange County, Bilingual Escrow Officer - Huntington Beach, CA Last Post: 09/12/07 11:24 AM          Posts: 158
	Rory Wilfong's - Blog Rory Wilfong - Real Estate Coach and Trainer - Lancaster, PA Last Post: 09/12/07 10:13 AM          Posts: 17
	Zoya's Blog Zoya Passalacqua - Boca Raton, FL Last Post: 09/10/07 01:02 PM          Posts: 6
	http://activerain.com/blogs/carolynboinis Carolyn Boinis Realtor(r) - Boca Raton, FL Last Post: 09/10/07 09:22 AM          Posts: 5
	REAL ESTATE "Kat" in the Sierra Foothills...blog and more Kathy "Kat" DeLong-- REALTOR, Sugar Pine Realty GMAC - Sonora, CA Last Post: 09/04/07 11:59 AM          Posts: 104
	Kevin's Blog Kevin Ray - Superior, MT Last Post: 09/03/07 05:55 PM          Posts: 27
	Real Estate Website Design Blog Brad Carroll - Real Estate Web Designer - Raleigh, NC Last Post: 08/31/07 11:48 AM          Posts: 32
	Brandon's Blog Brandon Cornett - Round Rock, TX Last Post: 08/30/07 09:45 AM          Posts: 66
	Bruce's Blog Bruce Dicks, Realtor, e-PRO - Lake City, FL Last Post: 08/28/07 09:20 AM          Posts: 28
	SUSAN's Blog SUSAN HORNE - Boynton Beach, FL Last Post: 08/20/07 02:46 PM          Posts: 83
	The Real Estate Caveat Amber Steiner, North Atlanta Real Estate - Cumming, GA Last Post: 06/29/07 11:03 AM          Posts: 41

This is really funny, and ingenious.  I wish I would have thought of this.  We get so many unsolicited phone calls these days, and this would be great to do to one of these guys or girls.  I also thought we all could use a few laughs during this slower market.

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=lwzge004pk

 

I just came across a very cool website that allows you to upload pictures, and it turns it into a movie for free. You can buy the full length one, but I have used these in my listing presentations, and been very successful. Let me know what you think. It is called www.Animoto.com

I thought this was a really funny video, and for my 100th post I thought I wanted to be more funny than serious. In my Boca Raton Market, I thought we may be able to learn from these antics to try and get some people to take a look at the open houses I do on the weekends. The Chad: Real Estate Genius

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I am a Boca Raton Real Estate Agent in Florida, and I received my annual dues for being a realtor, and they inserted the $59 RPAC Contribution, but all other years they put voluntary next to it.  This year they conveniently forgot it.  They sent out an email saying it was printing area.  Right, Some realtors may be stupid, but not all and we certainly are not naive.  Does anyone think they did this on purpose?  Hmmmm.  I certainly do.  RPAC is good to us, but not on all issues, and this was to me gross negligence.  Just my 2 cents.

Okay so I understand that the modern society has been through a lot of issues, but why is it so hard to be rational or logical when it comes to the government.  Our Florida Government, for instance has promised everything from lower insurance rates, and property tax reductions, and have delivered nothing, Nada, Zero.  We elect these people in office, and they seem great at first, but soon realize there is so hard to get anything passed that they end up giving in to the lobbyists and the politics of the government.  How hard is it to reduce property taxes in order to spearhead the Florida Real Estate Market?  Apparently very hard.  You order a special session in order to discuss the lowering of property taxes, and insurance rates, and come up with great plans that have been approved, but than you have to re-approve already what you just approved.  Oh by the way, and us as taxpayers foot the bill for their luxurious hotel stays, and meals.  If they would just stop having special sessions than we would could lower the taxes by not using our tax money to live the good life.

My plan.  Why don't we just tax the Indians for all their money they are making.  A 100% Mickasoukee Indian receives over $75,000 a person including kids a year all because we took their land over 100 years ago.  We have done a lot of things wrong in our past, but this should not allow Indians to pay taxes.  We already give them a sort of monopoly in the gaming and casino end.  Just tax them a little to reduce our property taxes.  It should not be that hard.  Get something done already.  We need it.  I live in a Boca Raton Home that I bought in 2005 at the peak, and my taxes have gone up from $6500 a year for a $700,000 home to over $11,000, and my insurance is $6500.  We need a little relief here.  Please bring it.

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I want to be at this poker game.  I just thought this picture was too funny.  Michael Vick deserves what he gets.  Hopefully, he gets a tough sentence longer than the anticipated 1 year.  Is anyone as disgusted as I am about this whole situation?  I am not trying to bring up this again, but he disgusts me.  As a huge football fan this kind of stuff happens more than we know of, and they should set an example of him.

 

 

How many realtors work on Sundays?  I do not during Football Season.  I love football.  Live, Breathe, and Eat Football.  This has been a really long off-season, and I am ready for some football.  How many of you are football fans?  I am a sad very sad Miami Dolphin fan, and I am in for a long season.  Support my team however.  I will.

 

 

I guess maybe people do not realize how search engines look at Title Tags or they would change them.  How many times do you think a consumer searches for your name?  My name is David Serle, and I work in Boca Raton, FL.  Do you think consumers search for David Serle or Boca Raton Homes.  I am may be pretty popular in my area, but I am guessing consumers may search for Boca Raton Homes more than David Serle.  Here is a tool that you can check how many times a particular keyword is searched, and it also gives you suggestions, and how many times that keyword was searched.  You may be surprised:  http://www.globalpromoter.com/seo-tools/keyword-suggestion-tool.cfm

How many times have you opened up a real estate website only to see at the top of the page their name and company?  Again are you really that full of yourself that you believe consumers search for you because you have your photo on a park bench?  I think not.  Than why do you continue to include your name in the Title Tag.  Stop it now I am begging you.  If you want to increase your rankings exponentially than change your title tag immediately.  Change it to Homes for Sale in Boca Raton or Boca Raton Real Estate.  When google.com crawls the web and indexes your website the FIRST thing they look at is your title tag.  Your title tag tells the search engine what your website is about.  Do you now think that Title Tags matter?  I hope so.  The best advice I can give is to change your title tags to the keyword you are targeting.  You may even add up to 3 keywords in your title tag.  Try a specific community that seems to be a less competitive keyword, and you will be able to rank on the first page of google just by doing this.   Good Luck to all.