28 October 2008

Keller Williams Realty is the 4th largest real estate brokerage in the US. I didn't know anything about them until I did a search on the internet. Being a new real estate agent, I was curious about all the red/white signs I was seeing; KW has a 45% share of the market in Austin Texas (WOW!). I discovered a company that focused on the agent's business, not the brokers. They had a business model that was proven to work; all I had to do was follow it. This really got me interested because most of the brokers I had talked to focused on them, not me and had the attitude of "Go get me some sales and nothing else."

I signed up with KW and the training/education they have provided me has given me a great business. I have been with KW since 2006 and with the market tumbling, I still find business. The reason; they teach me how to survive in any market condition. I want other agents to have the same success as me and feel Keller Williams Realty has a lot to do with it.

I have designed a website to reach out to other agents who are not getting what they need from their current broker or new agents who are looking for a place to build a real estate career. If you are not happy with your current business or feel you have reached a ceiling in regards to production, visit kwrealtycareers.com and fill out an inquiry. I'll be happy to share with you why KW is the fastest growing real estate company in th US. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by brentmitchell (talk • contribs) .

18 September 2008

• Introducing Tietzhomes.com where you can find answers to all of your Real Estate questions.*

Antioch, California Market updates and comparisons.

There were a total of 89 closed residential home sales from August 1st to August 31st in 2008 compared to 57 in August 1st 2007 to August 31st of 2007. The average selling price for that period was $358,018 compared to an average selling of $374,218 for the same period in 2007, a percentage drop of 4%. The median selling price was $360,000 compared to $382,500 for the same period in 2007, a parentage drop of 6%. The average number of days a house was on the market was 63, compared to 59 days for the same period in 2007, an increase of only 4%. Currently there are 948 homes on the market, and it’s a great time to buy.

Written by Rick Tietz "The Tietz Team"

August 17

• Toni from ToniDutton.com edited their page.

July 23

SilverDoorRealEstate.com takes the cake for Plymouth! See their article on find great property in MN and why Plymouth is the in place to be.

July 11

• Introducing BeaufortSeaIslandRealEstate.com as a work in progress article. Beaufort South Carolina Real Estate is managed by Maria Skrip. --Sa'ad [ talk•email•chat ] 03:32, 11 July 2008 (PDT)

July 5

• Tanya Kulaga an agent in Lawrence, KS who's real estate business is focused on representing buyers in the Lawrence, KS has listed her website on 'AboutUs'. Lawrence KS Real Estate and Homes for Sale Search (www.SearchLawrence.com) features interactive maps of homes for sale, weekly open home list for Lawrence and surrounding areas and tools, videos and information to help better understand the home buying process. It is currently ranked the top real estate website in Lawrence, KS by Alexa.com.

Week of April 28

• Rob B and Cristina Junqueira are REALTORS on Cape Cod. Very excited to find AboutUs.com. Looking forward to finding new contacts, referral business, and hopefully some linking partners. We have 2 seperate sites right now and adding another 6 in a week. Our first and most used Cape Cod real estate site (about 400 visits/day) is ForSaleByCristina.com. We have another pure link site and a bunch of other free sites that we link from as well. Cristina has been a REALTOR on Cape Cod for over 8 years, has sold over $50,000,000 in real estate (Avg selling price on Cape Cod is around $300,000). We would be glad to contribute on a regular basis and interact with members. Feel free to contact me anytime on my talk page CapeCodRob

April 14

• Jack Johnson and Tom Orlando, a team of dedicated and professional local realtors with Global Realty Marketing, Inc Search for Pottstown Homes (IKnowJackAndTom.com) has joined 'AboutUs' and are very excited to be here!
• Renee Taliaferro added some useful information and links to BeachGuide.com, a vacation rental guide. Kasey

April 10

• Hi! My name is Heather Rankin, a Realtor from the Lake Powell Area. Lake Powell is a stunning lake and resides in two states, Utah and Arizona. I have started the Lake Powell Real Estate Blog to provide information on Lake Powell Properties and Lake Powell Real Estate Information for both Arizona and Utah. Stop by!
• New portal activity: MarleneDoesMore.com, VictoriaSellsCabot.com, EastTennLand.com, CharlotteProperty.com, IndyHouses.com.

April 4

• Interesting Agent section on CitySitesNY.com.

March 25

• JustSnooping.com has been added to AboutUs! JustSnooping.com is widely recognized as leading the Real Estate Industry into finally having an affordable, high quality presence on the Internet. Providing virtual tours, still photos, slide shows, websites & more.

Week of March 17

• Welcome Rela-Mortgage.com! They added their selves to the Real Estate Wiki, yea!
• Welcome Eunice Pearson to AboutUs.
• Adam Michael Homes: Greetings from Adam Michael Homes! --Custom designed and built homes in the San Antonio area! For more information, please visit: adammichaelhomes.com

Week of March 10

• Teresa Dabbelt, Rockie Mitchell, NewsomeTeamRealEstate.com and Mike Kelly Jr. are the newest members of the Category:RealEstatePortal
• Welcome Alex Greben and Anton Pang to AboutUs.
• Newest memebrs of the portal: Rela-Mortgage.com and WilmingtonRealEstateNetwork.com. Kasey 16:02, 13 March 2008 (PDT)

Week of March 3

• Changing the RealEstate Badge! We want your vote! RealEstateBadge
• Bank Foreclosures Databank has been badged with the RealEstateMember badge.

Week of February 29

• DufaultHomeTeam.com is a PromoteUs client. Obed Suhail

Week of February 18

• Mountain Luxury Real Estate & Development has been Promoted!.
• JDUnitedRealty.com has been Promoted! --Sa'ad ^{: msg me : email :} 08:18, 22 February 2008 (PST)

Week of February 11

• Salihawaqar created a great page for EuropeanProperty.com a PromoteMe client. Kasey
  • Are you interested in maximizing your wiki presence? Learn more about becoming a PromoteMe client.

Week of February 4

• Mountain Luxury Real Estate & Development is also an AboutUs PromoteMe customer.
• Real estate and tech... in Nytimes.com
• Great effort on a PromoteMe wiki page by Julia and Tak. See: NeighborCity.com
• Nice, well linked content and descriptions: JDUnitedRealty.com, BayAreaLoanGuy.com, DutchHeritageHomes.com and BlueMortgage.com
• Classic-Apartments.com is nominated to be a featured page, add you thoughts in the Discussion section. Kasey
• Click Add Your News to introduce yourself and you wiki page here:

Spotlight on well developed wiki pages in January

• Pages off to a great start: BerniceEdelman.com, OnTheCapeRealEstate.com, ChautauquaLakeHomes.com
• CityResidential.co.uk and TheNorrisGroup.com

• Help (Live chat)
• Daily Buzz
• Community

• Sees that this hasn't been used in five months, and felt like stirring the pot. -- TakKendrick | talk 20:12, 2 November 2008 (PST)
• Turns on 'Mark edits Minor by Default' feature for all his edits. Doing this to generate less noise as i go through pages. Will selective unmark for major edits when i make them. --Sa'ad [ talk•email•chat ] 04:17, 2 June 2008 (PDT)
• InfluenceUs Log seems a bit loan heavy right now. Kristina (contact me) 03:03, 3 May 2008 (PDT)

I asked Sa'ad about this a while back after Ted suggested I ask him; I'd like to see this issue touched soon. --Nick Burrus [ Talk - Contribs ] 02:51, 15 May 2008 (PDT)

• Heads up on a hectic review DayOhPersians.com. I reverted non-review and added a review section.
• RC is pushing 3800, so I'll be on that for a while today. Kasey 10:47, 28 April 2008 (PDT)
• 28th April: Today Asad and I paired over RC, and had great dicussion about intersesting happening/things and Rollback many edits. We also had some discussion on whether we follow some methodology while working on RC or not. - Shahzad (talk)
• Would like everyone to work on prioritizing CommunityTasks - it hasn't been touched for a week. :-( ~~ MarkDilley
• Found this edit to our Values page, how are these slipping through? ~~ MarkDilley
• Found these missed unconstructive edits, ouch ~~ MarkDilley 19:06, 14 April 2008 (PDT)
• Ive gone through a whole bunch of templates and updated them with our branding. Granted not all of them are used, still, if any of them have been added in the past on domain pages, they should now appear consistent with the new skin. --Sa'ad ^{talk•email•chat} 06:34, 14 April 2008 (PDT)
• I'm excited about welcome messages going out as new people create accounts on AboutUs. I hope this helps more people feel comfortable diving into wiki by giving them someone to contact with questions as well as links to help pages. Kristina .talk. .chat. 15:56, 11 April 2008 (PDT)
• I've put Template:InfluenceUsDown on a few of our help pages on functions that I know are currently down so that people aren't as confused when they try to do some of these things. Feel free to add to others that you notice or take them down as they start to work. Kristina Weis 18:13, 21 March 2008 (PDT)
• I was curious what everyone thought about where to place templates such as no website and undelete given the new layout of domain pages. My inclination is to place undelete and no bot ones above the domain box and the rest below, but I'm not certain. Kristina .talk. .chat. 17:55, 21 March 2008 (PDT)
  • I suggest adding the templates above domain pages and having all templates use AU corner code for consistency. If that resonates, with all, lets do it. ~~ Saad
• Here's someone removing a review that I don't think we should have allowed on teh site to begin with. [4] -- TedErnst (talk)
• Found someone being spammy to the site, [5] - please keep an eye out for these types of edits. ~~ MarkDilley
• since an AboutUs Page contains more than just wiki after the CompostUs, I have moved WikiPage to WikiSection. There were a few pages redirecting to WikiPage. Some of them have been redirected to Wiki Section and others to AboutUs Page. Please take a look at both these pages. Feel free to edit/change/revert. Asad | *~talk~* 03:02, 18 March 2008 (PDT)
• 13 Mar 2008 - We need to shift gear towards Moving to Real People as CompostUs has a much more visible element of human involvement (InfluenceUs messages (with pictures), claims, etc). Lets identify areas which need improvement (in site messaging, in our working, and other) where we can push this concept. Brain storm here. Feel free to jump in and contribute to this upcoming task. --Sa'ad ^{talk|email|chat} 06:51, 13 March 2008 (PDT)
• 10 Mar 2008 - Here's someone that's been making terrible edits going back more than 6 months. Special:Contributions/Rachelmiao One example from a week ago. another from September - this person has been moving pages and turning them into pages for different domains. How did we miss this? TedErnst (talk)
  • Ugh, that's depressing on our end. The person hasn't been banned; are we waiting for something on this? Kasey 12:43, 10 March 2008 (PDT)
    • I don't see any reason to ban. These are well-meaning edits, by my reading. They're just bad. This person needs to learn that it's easy to create a new page, and much better to do that than to hijack an existing page. I think it's just a mistake. I'm much more concerned about how we've missed these pages over and over. TedErnst (talk) 22:31, 10 March 2008 (PDT)
• 05 Mar 2008 - I have noticed lately that we have been receiving a higher number of spam-y emails that don't appear to be for us, and I've been trying a few things. On blatantly spam ones (one jarbly sentence with link) I've been adding Template:PossibleSpamSite to their domain page and Influence Us comments for multiple offenders (example: GeriFueA.com). For the longer somewhat spam-y ones I've been sending a brief reply saying "Hey, this is AboutUs.org... would you like to edit your domain page... watch our intro video" and I just noticed today that someone took me up on this and went on to edit the squa.re page minutes after my reply. Kristina .talk. .chat.
  • This is awesome! TedErnst (talk)
• 04 Mar 2008 - I added some text to MediaWiki:Difference. ~~ MarkDilley
  • I like it! Kristina .talk. .chat.
• 01 Mar 2008 - Mark, I know the video inside the DailyBuzzWikiBox has been bothering you, and you removed the videos. My take on it is that the DailyBuzz is where many people view this type of thing (not the WikiBox), and that folks won't be nearly as likely to see the video if they have to click the link to get to it. So, I've tried to make a newly sized/shaped WikiBox that would allow for video. What do you think? Template:DailyBuzzWikiBox TedErnst (talk)
• 29 Feb 2008 - Does anybody have an idea why Category:FeatureMeNew doesn't show Abcde.com even though this category is there on this page? Also, this doesn't show the Abcde.com even if the page includes this template. Is this a bug? Asad | *~talk~* 04:42, 29 February 2008 (PST)
  • We'll tackle this bug on Monday, if someone from portland dev group doesn't fix it before.--Ali Aslam 05:09, 29 February 2008 (PST)
• 26 Feb 08 - how did this one get patrolled? This is an extremely important page for us. the video has been seen 25,000 times in the month we've had it up! [6]
• 24 Feb 2008 - Ouch added as an active member and not welcomed! ~~ MarkDilley
  • Mark, I'm not quite sure why this is ouch. Is it ouch because we need to change the way we do RC to make sure all logged in folks we see there have been welcomed? Is it ouch because the fact that someone tagged himself active member should have been noticed in RC and something done about it? What should have been done? Does the fact that he tagged himself as active member mean that the person doing RC should have done something different than normal, which is to say, made sure the person has been welcomed? Just trying to see your vision for how this can be different next time. TedErnst (talk)
    • It seems to me that one of our main goals is to engage people, when that doesn't happen with someone who clearly is asking for that engagement, it causes me to think about how we can do better. ~~ MarkDilley
• 20 Feb 2008 - I broke up FeatureMePotentials:UnderDiscussion into five pages. This benefits our members because these pages now load very fast. It benefits us because now you can put the letter page you're watching on you watchlist and when anyone adds a page to your list, you'll be notified. I did add some pages today, so be sure to make sure they're being watched and nurtured. TedErnst (talk)
• 18 Feb 2008 - Template:Undelete looks great now, but has a problem covering up part of the domain box on many of the pages it's on. Any ideas/help beyond moving it to the top of the page? Kristina .talk. .chat.
• 16 Feb 2008 - Maybe this phrase is good for welcoming? "we have a page for your website" User talk:ReggieS -- TedErnst (talk)
• 15 Feb 2008 - just changed the text on pages that are yet to be created: new edit boxes. ~~ MarkDilley
  • - Shahzad - please think about adding HelpfulEditSummaries - the one I would have added here is WikiFormatting. Best, MarkDilley
  • Mark and Ted discussion about WikiFormatting edit summary
• 14 Feb 2008 - CompostUsTesting is a task that we need to think about. What are all the daily things we do as community staff that we want in the new system? ~~ MarkDilley
  • - changed the text on locked pages. ~~ MarkDilley
  • Mark and I rediscovered Special:Allmessages and made a bunch of changes to system messages: when logging in or logging out or patrolling a page, article to page, discussion to talk page, user to personal page, + to add comment, view source to locked page, move to rename -- TedErnst
  • here's what I did, what do you all think? KeithBTeague
    • That's great, Keith! -- TedErnst
  • Here's another weblog post to DailyBuzz. I'm a bit confused by it. Anyone want to do it? [post. It's a blogger blog that links to User talk:Malayalasangeetham as a way to get in touch about MalayalaSangeetham.info. Maybe we could invite them to use InfluenceUs? TedErnst (talk)
  • Ted and I worked on dividing the FeatureMePotentials page into sections. Obed Suhail 05:48, 14 February 2008 (PST)
• 13 Feb 08 - Asad (not sure if others as well) worked on the Feature process using the AddThisHere feature, so nominating can be much easier. It'll be even better tomorrow! Yay! We also have some great discussion going on there about how to improve the process. Join in! TedErnst (talk)
• 13 February 2008 - Worked on FeatureMePotentials list A-E, moved lots of 'em to last chance. --Sa'ad ^{: msg me : email :}
• 13 February 2008 - On one of the personal pages, I noticed today that adsense was not working despite the fact that there was Category:WhiteList on it. It turned out that it was because this category was in one of the templates and we didn't have the functionality mark as okay for all audiences any page that has a template on it or has a page that is transcluded on it that contains this category to be marked as Okay for all Audiences. We have this functionality now but the question is, do we want to have this category on all personal pages? Thoughts? Asad | *~talk~*
  • I think, no. Personal pages that trip the filter will get the non-adsense ads, which is okay. If we notice and want to manually whitelist, that seems fine. Is there another side to this? TedErnst (talk)
• 11 February 2008 - I intend to DailyBuzz this, and link to it from the domain pages mentioned, but don't have time at the moment. I'll still do it later if no one gets to it first: http://paulfwalsh.com/more-noise-being-added-by-the-bwdma/ TedErnst (talk)
• 10 February 2008 - moved this discussion from InterestingHappenings to here.
  • Domain names not seems to be Adult BookFinders.com but it had adult information on its AboutUs Page
  • Not sure what to do with VertexResourcing.com
    • Not sure what you're referring to. Say more?
      • Related Domains are confusing me in this page VertexResourcing.com
    • What would you suggest to do with it?
      • My suggested Edit, because I think These Domains (vertexresourcing.c0.uk, vertexresourcing.c0m, vertexresourcing.comm, vertexresourcing.coom) doesn't make any sense. I would be more happy if some body make it more constructive.
      • looks like there are too many categories and RelatedDomains
  • 426 Channels are available online see clickandseetv.com
• 06 February 2008 - Huge edit war overnight on ModelsArchive.org. I locked the page for a week. Comments welcome. TedErnst (talk)
• 05 February 2008 - TedErnst has been talking with User:Dzappone who is interested in helping build the Role Playing Games Wiki
• 30 January 2008Neither Mark nor Ted leave this person a talk page message - that seems odd, what do others think? ~~ MarkDilley
  • Seems odd to me. TedErnst (talk)
• 25 January 2008 - Kristina, Ted, Mark, Ray: How's the weather down under? (Me being in balmy BC) What progress with 'TheWantGot'? Happy and prosperous 08. Jan Steen (Kristina: sorry not to have explained; not quite sure about allowing it exposure at this point)
• 23 January 2008 - Curious how this got missed - :-) ~~ MarkDilley
  • Missed how? TedErnst (talk)
    • They were not welcomed either edit. :-) ~~ MarkDilley
• See DailyBuzz for other pages worked on today. They could all use review. TedErnst (talk)
• Could use some help on HelpIndex. TedErnst (talk)
• Please read PageRank and contribute to building PageTrust for AboutUs. Thank you, Igorberger
• 21 January 2008 - ouch craigslist.org edit unnoticed for 4 days. ~~ MarkDilley
• 20 January 2008 - I arrive in Portland on Saturday the 26th, for a week. TedErnst (talk) 16:26, 20 January 2008 (PST)

09-January-2008

• My attempt to communicate with MLMRock.com and UniversitiesGame.com about their breaking of our licence TedErnst (talk) 22:26, 9 January 2008 (PST)

08-January-2008

• Could someone from Lahore answer User:TheHeer re: Lahore office address? TedErnst (talk) 09:51, 9 January 2008 (PST)
  • I have given him our address. Obed Suhail 22:37, 9 January 2008 (PST)

07-January-2008

• Ted and I paired on updating: Category:CurrentCommunityTasks. -- Obed Suhail

02-January-2008

• I love the way Tak made ContentStaff so transparent! What can we do for CommunityStaff? ~~ MarkDilley
• Ted - could you explain why you are playing with the test idea of redirect to No Bot Policy? ~~ MarkDilley
  • Yes, we have various levels of people being okay with us displaying there information here. Some people are fine with our bot scrape. Others prefer to remove their personal phone number (they don't care about the history). Others also want the history removed. Others want all bot-generated content removed. Others are still not satisfied with that, so changing the page into a redirect to NoBotPolicy makes it so that from one point of view, they don't even have a page on AboutUs at all. And yet this still allows the community to go back and change the redirect into a real page again at some point in the future, intentionally, be a human being. Does this answer the question? TedErnst (talk)
• So we (I) have put WikiBoxes on all new folks PersonalPages for this months experiment. The idea is that we have asked people to Upload their image and take the WikiTour - now what? Letting them know there is community here and that they can learn from is a cool idea to me. This means that we need to tweak the box for CommunityNews aka InterestingHappenings to make it better and we need to change up our welcoming message a little. What do you think? ~~ MarkDilley

25-December-2007

• Yes! in reply to KristinaWeis's email - "I was thinking in light of the new core customer stuff that TheWikiWay:WhatIsAboutUs might be a good page to tweak and get that out there for new (folks). Thoughts?" ( also tweaked the MissionStatement. MarkDilley
• I did some tweaking of the titles and formatting and links, with Saad's help. TedErnst (talk)
• Nice! :-) Obed Suhail
• I like this a lot! Even before community members start using this for communication, we staff can use it to show an example of how it can work! ;-) ~~ MarkDilley

24-December-2007

• This box has been added to the personal pages of each community staffmember using {{CommunityStaffWorkingInPublic}}. This is an experiment. What do you think? Feel free to move the box and comment back here. TedErnst (talk)
  • I love it! I think this box can be used to great effect for enhancing communication between the community members. :-) Asad | *~talk~* 09:42, 24 December 2007 (PST)
• This box is inspired by the recent work on News.

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