Gundy Group: Blog

I saw this house in Maple Ridge (kinda near Vancouver) while I was there on a business trip. I have no idea what they are planning on doing.

This give a whole new meaning to “open floor plan”.

I am trying to think of a few selling points for this one.  Here is what I have so far:

• Home buyers are just flooding in!
• Private dock included!
• Waterfront property!
• Kinda like Venice!

Let us know if you have any other ideas.

GundyGroup.com and the Gundy Group: Blog will both be sporting a new favicon in the near future. This 16×16 pixel master piece was created by yours truly. Alright… I did have a little help from Flavicon.cc. The site was pretty cool to play around with: It allows you to design pixel by pixel, choose from any color, and it even creates a shirt with your new design on it. I am for sure gonna get one!

It has been a while since I last posted. Been too busy on twitter. I have to admit that I am kinda hooked. Anyways here are some of the real estate related tweets from the past few months.

• Interesting Fact: Only 222 homes have sold the last 30 day in Utah County.
• Twittering keywords III: Provo Real Estate, Orem Real Estate, and Utah Luxury Real Estate.
• Been working on a new favicon… www.favicon.cc is a great tool! Will be blogging about it soon.
• New Follower: Rob Aubrey from www.3poundsofrealestate.com. It’s good to have a follower from Utah! Welcome, Welcome!
• Also Joseph Ferrara, the other guy from Sellsius. Here’s your link www.sellsiusrealestate.com
• Looking forward to UREP and the W20REP… It’s gonna be sweet!
• Thinking about getting a new WordPress theme.
• Jim from RealEstateTomato estimated that there are 3,500 active real estate bloggers out there.
• I say define “active”.
• I think the point system on ActiveRain is kinda lame!
• Making progress on my project!
• Wish I could have gone to Real Estate Connect…maybe next year!
• New Follower: Brad Coy of http://www.sfres.com/ … @BradCoy Where’s the blog?
• New Follower: Loren Nason of http://www.futureofrealesta… I also joined his MyBlogLog.
• New Follower: @JimDuncan of http://www.realcentralva.com/ Mind If I call you Jimmy?
• New Follower: @andykaufman of http://myeastbayagent.com/
• New Follower: @LaniAR of http://rerevealed.com/ Yes I am kind jealous… I love “Austin City Limits”.
• New Follower: @TeriLussier of http://www.thebrickranch.com/
• New Follower: @MaureenFrancis of http://mioaklandcounty.com
• New Follower: @jburslem of FoREM an Inman!!!
• Found a good idea to blog about from a magazine. Hopefully I remember!
• Sawthefunniestmagazineadforluxuryrealestate.Therewasnospaces betweenanyoftheword…Mybad!
• Belated New Follower: @RE_BarCamp Hope I can attend (most likely won’t be able to).
• New Follower: @mlbroadcast Michael is the president of MLBroadcast and a nice guy (never met him so I don’t really know if he’s nice or not)
• Locked out of my house for hours today. Had to wait for my wife to get home from showing some buyers about 10 homes in Alpine.
• The wife is going to write up an offer on Monday… Still a ton of buyers out there.
• Got a great lead from the internet today! Looking for horse property in Utah County for around $750…Nice!
• Just got back from the Big Business and Technology Expo at UVU. Great networking event.
• New Follower: @TheRECoach Thanks for following!
• New Follower: @KrisBerg She is best darn real estate agent in San Diego and she blogs too! http://sandiegohomeblog.com/

I can’t stand spam! It comes in many forms: slimy meat in a can, unsolicited emails, and lame comment on blogs. With real estate blogs popularity ever increasing, more and more Realtors are becoming bloggers. Many over zealous Realtors are tempted to spam their own blog by adding more categories then necessary or tag that aren’t even relevant.

The other day while looking over some local real estate blogs, I came across a prime example of a Realtor taking categorizing post to the extreme. Below is the list of tags this post was giving(19):

Posted by SpamRealty in: Search Utah County Real Estate for Sale, Utah County Real Estate, Buying a Home, FSBO, For Sale by Owner, Home Buying Tips, Provo, Provo Utah, Real Estate Statistics, Selling a Home Provo, Provo average sales price, Provo home prices, Provo homes, Provo house, Provo housing, Provo real estate, Provo sales prices, Provo Utah

The post was maybe two paragraphs long and made no mention of FSBO.  Honestly give it a rest! Pick one or two categories and call it good.

P.S. I made changes to the quoted section so I wouldn’t be plagiarizer, but you get the idea.

• Just learning about twitter!
• Wondering if you can send links. Lets try: blog.gundygroup.com
• Ha! It worked!
• So sick of JTM’s bulk crap… More on that later.
• I meant bull crap
• Now I’m mad at the MLS… long story
• Just checking out MyBlogLog
• Just saved Twitter’s # to my phone.
• Thinking about blogging… Getting late!
• Just blogged about twitter. check it out here.
• Posting it on ActiveRain also.
• Drinking chocolate milk before bed… I think Twitter is for people who don’t have friends they can text…. Good night!
• Staying home with the boy. While the wife heads up to the corp. office in SLC.
• Showing Aaron my twitter page.
• Rush hour! Oh snap!
• I think Rich Jacobson is a nerd!
• It is hard to get any work done when I have to watch my boy…
• Just tried send a photo to Twitter… didn’t work!
• Playing with Joomla
• Wanting to work on new project. I’ll call Jordan in a bit.
• When to church, afterwards we drove around near our old house (The Burkshire), and checked out all the new houses going up.
• Got some good blogging ideas from EKDAY. It’s great for key words & informative.
• I consider Mitt Romney to be one of my roll models…
• I now have a Twitter follower. His name is Matt, and I have no idea who he is.
• Twitter you key words: Utah County Real Estate, Real Estate Marketing, Utah Homes for sale…alright that enough!
• Hey! Check out blog.rooski.com
• Jamming to some tones on Last.fm
• Sad that the BYU game in San Diego has been postponed.
• Taking my brother to the air port at 4 in the morning… Not to fun!
• I realized that i always twitter before bed, kinda like someone would write in a diary.
• Need to recharge my phone!
• I love the Jimmy Kimmal Show.
• Ben Harper has a new album. I’m stoked about that!
• Twitter your key words Part II: Sundance real estate, Alpine real estate, condo near BYU. Nice…
• Just added a few real estate Twitters to my list.
• Blogged about “Zillow Eyes”. What kind of name is that!
• Sometime the lamest post gets the most attention/comments on ActiveRain.
• The wife is holding an open house in Payson tomorrow. Love it if some buyers came!
• Oh ya, I almost forgot… I now have a featured spot at ActiveRain under Orem, UT. I only need to move up one more spot to have in all of Utah County.
• When I’m done with “My Twitter Test” I’m gonna blog about it. I’m sure it will fit in every category that I have.
• Man what a worth less Saturday! That’s what I get for been sick.
• I rented the movie “Closing Escrow” last night. Very Funny, but kinda slow. Everyone who is in the real estate business should watch it.
• Chilling at omniture. They have a sweet office!
• Just playing around on JibJab.
• Just read a port about Mitt Romney on TechCrunch
• Left my phone at my mom and dad’s house for the week end. Now I can start Twittering again via text….
• Working on a post about million dollar homes in Utah County. Hopefully it turns out!
• Interesting fact: The most expensive home listed in Utah County is $12,900,000
• Eating at Jason’s Deli… Never been here before. Stay tuned, I’ll let you know what I think.
• Jason’s Deli Review: Tasty, Nothing special, over priced. 2 stars tops
• Welcome to The Real Estate Zebra! Probably my first “real follower”.
• I have to give the leason in sunday school tomorrow and I haven’t prepared anything. Kinda nervous…
• Got 2 more followers! –Pat Kitano of http://transparentre.com/ & Steve Dalton of http://daltonsbriefs.blogsp… Welcome guys!
• Interesting Fact: There are 4539 homes listed in Utah County.
• www.gundygroup.com is now PageRanked a 1. Pretty good for still being under construction…
• Just added Twitter to MyBlogLog
• New Followers: David Bethoney of www.propertyqube.com and Rudolph D. Bachraty III of www.sellsiusrealestate.com Welcome and here’s a link!
• Big game tomorrow! BYU vs. Utah…and we have tickets! Baller!

Top 101 cities with largest percentage of males working in industry: Real estate and rental and leasing

Top 101 cities with largest percentage of females working in industry: Real estate and rental and leasing

A couple Utah cities made the list:

• Park City (m) #26 @ 8.0% , (f) #47 @ 7.9%
• Holladay (m) #94 @ 5.8%
• Summit Park (m) #99 @ 5.8%

Yesterday, while reading some blogs, I came across a post about myIPneighbors.com. At first glance, I thought that it was about a new real estate website (they need a new logo). I started playing around, checking my site, then moved on to other site that I’m interested in. When checking Zillow, I expected to see Zillow Blog, Zillow Feeds, or CoRE. Instead I find Zillow Eyes… What the heck is Zillow Eyes? Is it something new they are working on? Is it the new mortgage service they’ve been talking about?  What’s your guess?

For the while now (feels like forever) I have been hearing and reading about a site/service called Twitter. It has never really sounded all that interesting to me. Well, today I decided to just stop fighting, swallow my pride, and start twittering. But there is a twist, I am only going to do it for a month. If I don’t care for it…Done! If you’re really interested in where I’m going to lunch or that I’m updating my FaceBook at 2 a.m., feel free to check it out!

Tell me what you think about Twitter. Do you use it? Have you tried it? Sick of hearing about it? Love it…post your own Twitter link!

Today I thought I would try my hand at being Pablo Picasso. I started making a few faces using Mr. Picassohead.  Then I decided to make him a real estate agent, which was kinda tricky.  I made the home out of two noses, an eyebrow, and some other random objects.  I think if Pablo were in the real estate biz, he would of have some great marketing materials (and closing gifts)!  Next up…. sculpting.