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Affordable Condos or Cheap Apartments — Who’s choice is it?

Robert Gray Smith on 01 22, 2007 | 13 Comments

I'm not typically one to go on about property owner's rights vs government(s) ability to control code enforcement and reasonable use of property without infringing on others.  I think active involvem

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Discounters, FSBO’s and Redfin – Oh MY! And why they shouldn’t matter

Robert Gray Smith on 07 20, 2006 | 47 Comments

So many recent articles and posts have focused on these "new" real estate practices and how they are all reducing commissions, going to drive the stodgy old guard out of business and revolutionize the

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Coldwell Banker Bain’s new interactive map search launched today

Robert Gray Smith on 06 22, 2006 | 2 Comments

Very similar to what John L Scott did (they were both done by the same dev company) but a little more localized as far as neighborhood drill-down. They also added sold property listings driven by addr

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No more Redfins, no more Zillows or Trulia’s — no more innovation!

Robert Gray Smith on 06 21, 2006 | 6 Comments

Ok, I'm a little off the real estate target here but it is an issue that effects us all. The biggest factor behind the creation of innovative companies like CraigsList, eBay, Amazon.com and even Googl

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