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ADVERTISEMENT Agents: Do you need a SIMPLE plan to get started with social media? Subscribe to become an Inman Premium Member by April 5, 2010, and get our 30-Day Social Media Plan FREE! Subscribe Today! TODAY'S TOP STORIES = Premium Member News - Join Now » Tuesday, March 30, 2010 A short and sweet guide to short sales By TARA-NICHOLLE NELSON With all the fancified, high-tech "gadgetological" stuff occupying our mental radar screens, sometimes the value of simplicity gets forgotten. In "How to Use a Short Sale to Stop Home Foreclosure and Protect Your Finances," prolific author Robert Irwin takes a back-to-basics approach to cut through the muddled media messaging, rumors and well-meaning (but often confusing or inaccurate) advice from all comers about short sales: "Do it!" "Don't do it!" More » Case-Shiller: price gains in 9 of 20 cities Annual index rate closest to positive since January 2007 'Mark,' 'Jane' and the tax credit Letters to the Editor Geo-fencing: next in mobile marketing? From Future of Real Estate Marketing Spain: Housing starts fall 88% from peak Nearly equal parts subsidized, private housing starts Old wiring shocks buyers Home inspector overlooked knob-and-tube 'problem' OTHER TOP STORIES A tool for rapid follow-up Forced dues for campaign legal, 'wrong' Florida Realtors plan giant open house Zillow seeks 'Carnival' operator HFAs to get $2.1B in TARP funds Neighbors pry over condo sale etiquette Latest News »	ADVERTISEMENT There is no other real estate conference like Connect - nowhere else will you see the level of speakers, innovators, and industry experts. See for yourself why over 50% of the people who attend Connect attend year after year. Connect SF July 13-15, 2010. Register today! NOTABLE QUOTE "Our goal is to create a place, the .MLS top-level domain, where the Web sites actually belong to MLSs, not to other types of business." --Bob Bemis SERIES: 2020 Re-Envision Survey Results Part 1: The future of real estate fees Part 2: Weeding out industry players Part 3: More real estate services, less face time Part 4: Real estate's virtual future
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