Gundy Group: Blog

 I have been wanting to launch a real estate networking site for a long time!  It’s not done just yet, but we’re working on it.  Right now we just have a splash page where you can sign up for updates.  Cribhits also has a twitter account where you can follow us, and we should have a blog up soon.  Go sign up already!

RE BarCamp is a fabulous FREE day of sharing and learning.

What makes a BarCamp the best event you’ll attend this year? You set the agenda. You come to learn and to share only the things you’re interested in!

The main focus of the Salt Lake BarCamp on June 5th is Social Media & Technology.

Topics Include:

• Blogging
• Twitter
• You Tube
• Facebook
• Search Engine Optimization
• Podcasting
• Web Marketing
• Google
• and MORE!

Come learn about the tools and technologies successful agents are using in this economy. Have You found a tool or strategy that has helped your business? Come share it with a group of people eager to listen!

You can’t afford NOT to come to this FREE event if you want your business to thrive like never before, even in this economy!

There will be a wide variety of topics and no hard selling of products or services. This is about SHARING information so that we can all take our businesses to the next level. Recent BarCamps in Phoenix, LA, New York and many other major markets have had as many as 50 or more sessions, all within 1 amazing day of opportunity.

RE Bar Camps are FREE for attendees. There are prizes and giveaways. Lunch will be provided for AT LEAST the first 100 who register, so don’t delay!

Register NOW at www.rebarcamp.com/slc/rsvp/

DATE: Friday, June 5th, 2009

TIME: 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

PLACE: Salt Lake Board of Realtors Campus
230 W. Towne Ridge Parkway, #200
Sandy, UT 8407

Anyone who has Anything to do with a real estate transaction is invited to attend. Again, this is FREE.  All we ask is that you register.

Plus I designed the logo(with help from Brain).

 The spam comment have got out of control!  I will be turning them off for a while.  If you really want to get in your two cent in, you can send me a message on twitter (@GundyGroup).

Here are the latest 25 CoRE hosts.

101- Alpharetta Real Estate Blog
102- Searching Solutions
103- Home Staging; Rants & Ravings
104- Altos Research
107- Real Estate Undressed
108- RE Blog World
109- up2date
110- MyNewPlace
111- VAR Buzz
112- Staged4More
113- Minneapolis Luxury Real Estate
114- 60646 Blog
115- Minnesota Investment Property
116- Seattle Specialist
117- Agent Genius
118- Stockton Real Estate Specialist
119- Housing Chronicles
120- Realty Thoughts
121- Geek Estate Blog
122- Northwest Indiana Mortgage
123- real/diaBlog
124- RERevealed
125- Laguna Niguel

One of these days I’ll ask to host it.

Just wanted show a little more support for The Carnival of Real Estate, and all the RE bloggers that keep thing interesting.  Here are the links to the next fifty.  See you 150!

50. Sadie’s Take on Delaware Ohio
51. Rain City Guide
52. Sacramento Real Estate Voice
53. RealEstatUndressed
54. Realty Thoughts
55. LandJournal
56. GeekEstate Blog
57. Valparaiso Indiana Home Builder - Northwest Indiana
58. Real/diaBlog
59. EKDAY
60. For Sale By Locals
61. Mortgage Insider
62. vFlyer Blog
63. Agent Genius
64. RE Revealed
65. Arizona Mortgage Guru
66. Real Estate Convergence
67. 3 Oceans
68. A Better Mortgage
69. John Barker’s Mortgage Blog
70. Arizona Real Estate Notebook
71. Laguna Niguel Real Estate
72. Boozwatt
73. SanDiegOh
74. Minnesota Investment Property
75. Zillow Blog
76. Searchlight Crusade
77. Property Grunt
78. Pine Needle Lawn
79. Overseas Property Investment Blog
80. Real Estate Tomato
81. BlueRoof.com
82. Matrix
83. Inman News Blog
84. Hotpads Daily
85. RealCentralVA
86. True Gotham
87. Reachd
88. Real Estate Investing for Real
89. Active Rain
90. Seattle Real Estate Professionals
91. Minneapolis Real Estate Blog
92. Salt Lake Real Estate Blog
93. Phoenix Real Estate Guy
94. Mike’s Corner
95. miOaoklandCounty.com
96. Renthusiast
97. Trulia Blog
98. Transparent RE
99. HomeThinking Blog
100. Carnival of Real Estate

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?