There are a number of new posts over at the Leavenworth Real Estate blog which I really hope you find useful. Dave writes "I really like the look of your site as well as what it does: it shines a true light on the Leavenworth market while all the other agencies just offer brochures (or fliers...). Good luck with it and keep up the good work! "
Seattle Mortgage professional Rhonda Porter is a great example of someone in real estate who gets
social media and is really making it work for her.
What does Rhonda do?
She is very active online, sharing information as she gets it, and constantly educating consumers and real estate agents about changes in rates, lending requirements and programs.
Rhonda's homebase is her Seattle Mortgage Blog http://www.mortgageporter.com which is a wealth of information about everything related to home loans and lending.
She also posts articles and weekly rate reports on Seattle's Rain City Guide and here on Active Rain as well. For those of us who prefer to stream our rate information (seeing as how rates seem to change 3-4 x a day) Rhonda also tweets Seattle Mortgage Rates throughout the day.
I've been lucky enough to write a guest post for Rhonda on her "Sunday Drive" column that she posts and to have her join me on my site as contributor to my Mortgage Roundtable.
How has it paid off for her?
The mainstream media do their research in much the same way as we often do. They use google. (It's certainly how the NY Times found me a few years back.) In the past few weeks Rhonda has been quoted by the AP and the Seattle PI.
If you want to use social media in your business, emulating Rhonda Porter by focusing on giving out great information is fabulous way to start.
A number of new posts over at the Leavenworth Real Estate blog.
The mortgage market is a different place in 2009 than it was in 2007 or even 2008.
5 mortgage professionals and real estate insiders give us their thoughts on the state of the mortgage world. (Including Rhonda Porter, Tom Vanderwell, Darel Ansley and David Gibbons from Zillow.)
Come visit the discussion on the Leavenworth real estate blog.
Leavenworth WA now has a new real estate website. After months of hard work we have combined the Real Estate Search function of www.GeordieRomer.com and the news and opinion of www.MyLeavenworth into one great real estate site.
We worked with the folks over at the Real Estate Tomato to create a custom WordPress Blog that had all of our old posts - 4 years worth along with the improved search capabilities of IDX Pro.
Please come vist our new Leavenworth Real Estate site, www.IcicleCreekRealEstate.com
We have lots of neighborhood pages, from Lake Wenatchee to Ponderosa Estates to Fish Lake.
We also have some great search pages which allow you to search for very specific places like Cashmere or condos in Leavenworth.
There are still a few glitches, but we'd love to hear what you think. We certainly couldn't have gotten here without all our friends from AR over the years.
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Geordie Romer is a real estate agent with Windermere Real Estate in Leavenworth Washington. I specialize in vacation homes and second homes in Leavenworth, Lake Wenatchee, Plain, and Cashmere.
I am a Washington native, raised in Olympia and currently a resident of Cashmere. I am a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont where I earned a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Political Science. Prior to real estate I spent nearly a decade in law enforcement as a park ranger in our National Parks. 
I am one of only a handful of real estate agents in the Wenatchee Valley to earn their e-PRO designation from the National Association of Realtors. As an e-PRO I have received the most up to date training on how to use the internet, e-mail, and other high tech tools to maximize my real estate business. With 77% of consumers using the internet to help them research real estate, it makes sense to use an agent who understands how best to use these tools.
In 2007 I was awarded the Certified Residential Specialist designation by the Council of Residential Specialists. Less than 4% of all Realtors earn this coveted designation which requires extensive real estate experience and advanced training. Only a dozen Realtors in Chelan and Douglas counties hold the CRS designation.
My goal is to be the best advocate for my clients and to find creative solutions to their problems. In 2007, I saved my buyers an average of $9000 and sold my listings for nearly 99% of their list price.
In 2006 my peers named me to the Board of Directors for the North Central Washington Association of REALTORS where I served as the Director for Governmental Affairs for Chelan County. I also have served on the MLS committee and have coordinated the REALTOR food drive in Leavenworth.
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