2011 NAR Annual Google Communications Presentation

I know my last entry was supposed to be The End… but I need a place to post my:

2011 NAR Annual Google Communications Suite

…presentation and I haven’t had time to launch my new site yet.

Please click the link above to download the PDF.

Thanks to all who attended the session, I hope it delivers some value to you and your business.

~Jeff

The End

This is really hard to do, but it’s time to move on.  I’m shutting The XBroker down inside of 30 days.
This site will redirect to my Google+ account, where I will publish any future articles as well as general life and thought streaming.
The move isn’t a statement against blogging, the merits of having your own site or any [...]

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Move Launches MortgageMatch- Same Cat, Similar Spin

Move launched their MortgageMatch online mortgage qualification and origination website today.
Instead of responding to numerous emails I’m reducing my quick and dirty thoughts to this post… so please excuse the mortgage speak without detailed explanations and definitions…
Move created a mortgage ‘decision engine’ that effectively processes relative financial, credit and other risk based factors to generate [...]

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The National Foreclosure Moratorium Robo Sign Housing Debacle-ism

Lots of sensational press around the temporary foreclosure moratorium thats being implemented by some, soon to be all banks across the country.  Some people are crying fraud while others are pressing random panic buttons calling for someones head…yet most really don’t know why.
I guess it just sounds like the right thing to do since banks [...]

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The Ultimate Fix

Much speculation regarding the Future of Housing Finance and the overall housing market around the news lately.  I penned a couple articles for HousingWatch (here and here) on the conference of the same name that took place at The Treasury last month, they’re good prerequisites to whats written below.
While there were many threads of thought that [...]

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