tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624698882744757428Sat, 31 Aug 2024 04:30:34 +0000The Professional Education Institute and Carleton Sheets are creating the "Next Generation" Real Estate website. The new site is dedicated to the real estate consumer (REC) looking to buy, sell or invest more profitably. I have started this blog to keep you posted on our progress. This blog is also designed to empower the REC by providing education & information on issues, topics, news and sites to help you feel confident in your decisions and interactions with real estate professionals.http://readvocate.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Doug)Blogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624698882744757428.post-3717693260892541818Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:58:00 +00002007-03-01T10:03:59.180-06:00This morning as I was reviewing my various news and blog feeds one of the first headlines I saw was, “How to Save Your Home from Foreclosure” posted by WikiHow.com (which by the way is a very cool site that I highly recommend). Given my post from yesterday I naturally had to check this story out.It ends up that this article is full of tips and suggestions of ways to avoid foreclosure and is http://readvocate.blogspot.com/2007/03/saving-your-home-from-foreclosure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Doug)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624698882744757428.post-5157610788296500813Wed, 28 Feb 2007 23:35:00 +00002007-03-01T10:05:41.589-06:00The Foreclosures are coming, the foreclosures are coming! I keep reading and hearing about the coming wave of bank foreclosures and I’ve been asked recently by a number of folks, “what does this mean?” “Is there an opportunity here for me to make some money and if so, how?”Before I answer that question I think it’s important to spend just a minute explaining why there is so much chatter about http://readvocate.blogspot.com/2007/02/foreclosures-22-million-subprime-loans.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Doug)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624698882744757428.post-7137568842009308705Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:18:00 +00002007-02-24T13:21:51.196-06:00Yesterday I had the privilege of sitting in on a teleconference hosted by Brand Inman to learn about his latest project, the InmanWiki. Unfortunately, he experienced some technical difficulties early on but kudos to Brad and his team for holding their composure and getting things back on line pretty quickly. For those of you who don’t know, a wiki is essentially a tool or website used to promotehttp://readvocate.blogspot.com/2007/02/inman-wiki.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Doug)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624698882744757428.post-1518612059230638265Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:16:00 +00002007-02-24T13:17:47.020-06:00As the leading real estate consumer advocate I felt the need to come up with a seal of approval for designating sites, people, products and services as consumer friendly. That is, I believe these sites, services, etc. provide meaningful information and value to the real estate consumer first and foremost. They are not some scams designed to lure you in with a taste of something and then turn http://readvocate.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-is-reca-seal-of-approval.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Doug)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624698882744757428.post-4087375276904247350Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:33:00 +00002007-02-22T15:38:06.311-06:00Who (or where) do you turn to if you have a question about real estate? I mean the median price for a home these days is over $200,000! That’s a lot of money to most of us. I am a real estate junky so I read everything I can get my hands on not to mention I am very fortunate in that my work centers around real estate and my wife, Jackie, is a Realtor. Even still, each time I sign a contract http://readvocate.blogspot.com/2007/02/where-to-go-for-help.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Doug)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4624698882744757428.post-5402196952733854884Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:05:00 +00002007-02-21T18:16:06.121-06:00Hi, I’m Doug and I’m the VP of the Professional Education Institute's Real Estate Products and Services business, the leading consumer advocate of the real estate industry. PEI has been working with Carleton Sheets for over 23 years and in fact he is one of the 3 founders of the company. Over the past 23 years his infomercial has aired every single day. Can you imagine? And over that time we http://readvocate.blogspot.com/2007/02/welcome.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Doug)0