… in observance of Yom Kippur. This primarily is so when my mother looks at the calendar icon on the side, she’ll see no posts on either of the High Holy Days.
We’ll see everyone Sunday morning.
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These are more for the Realtor set, I do admit. But time’s a bit short today.
1) I keep receiving invitations to a local blogging seminar that promises to help unlock the secrets of blogging for business. Gee, I can’t wait. I guess maybe I ought to start up one of those blog thingies after all.
2) The folks at Internet Crusade do some great things, including providing a free platform for blogging beginners at Real Town Blogs. But the new upgrade coming Monday makes me glad the blog grew up and moved on. The URLs for the blogs are changing from yourname.realtownblogs.com to www.realtownblogs.com/your name.
Added 301 redirects will mean all previous marketing remains intact. But the new URL seems to take people even further away from personal branding - which, ironically, is one of the central tenants of IC’s ePro certification. Maybe the SEO will outweigh the fact you are branding RealTown rather than yourself. Time will tell.
Personally, I’d advise sticking with WordPress - much easier to customize, you control the server and the price is exactly the same as the RealTown blog.
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Phoenix mortgage applicants and home buyers have had a roller coaster ride these past ten days. We maintained our advice to lock-in loans at application, prior to and immediately after the Fed decision to cut rates .5%. We felt there was irrational exuberance among the bond traders which artificially lowered yields. Those lower yields led to lower mortgage rates.
Now, we’re reversing course. Irrational fear of inflation exists in the bond markets today. Bond traders believe that Bernanke’s cut may have overreached, paving the way for higher inflation. We think Bernanke is a whole lot smarter than the bond traders believe him to be; we also think he’s judicious in his approach. That irrational fear causes us to advice all Phoenix mortgage applicants to cautiously float your rate. Cautiously floating means you check in with your mortgage adviser daily. Markets can reverse quickly and we could reverse our recommendation to our locking stance.
Keep checking this report daily for updates.
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