4114Homes.com - Stephen M. Wigg

Looking for an advertiser for our web site, I came across https://www.mortgageloan.com/ to see local rates at 4 lenders. So, after giving eveything but my blood type and the promise of my first born named after them, i.e. income, email, etc. I received this:

Your inquiry has not been sent to a lender. This can happen because:

• Lenders have exceeded limits for new inquiries today.
• Your inquiry falls outside of lender loan parameters

Lenders below are offering their lowest rates available.

Click below to learn more or click this button to recieve a Free Credit Report and Score before talking with lenders.

They do this often? What they did was harvest my name as a potential home buyer in the next 2 months. Is this the kind of "HOT LEAD" they sell to unsuspecting Real Estate Agents?

From Housing Predictor.com, the forecast for Nebraska sounds pretty good!

Nebraska

Some think the elusive bottom of the housing market could be fairly near in Nebraska, despite the recessionary economy and lack of consumer confidence. Nebraska ranks near the bottom of states in foreclosures, and few mortgages are subprime or Alt A loans, which have triggered the avalanche of foreclosures.

Nebraska is a key agricultural producing state, and farmers are concerned about the state of the economy. Farm income is still running at about the same as last year, but drops in the prices of commodities could have a major impact on farmers. Plummeting prices for corn and soybeans could have devastating consequences on Nebraska's economy. In fact, more of an impact on the state than real estate in the conservative mid-west.

Conservative financing may provide the saving grace for Nebraska's economy. Although home sales and auto sales are down, they aren't nearly down as much as the majority of markets throughout the country impacted by the credit crisis. And lenders are still willing to make mortgages in Nebraska unlike bankers in many other parts of the country.

Nebraska still has fairly strong employment hovering around 4%, but it is feeling the effects of the recession. In Omaha the unemployment rate is edging up as more people apply for unemployment benefits. Home sales are also down by nearly half from year ago levels as the fall out of the credit crunch slows the economy.

Sales are projected to remain sluggish, but moving in 2009 in Omaha on forecast average housing deflation of just 4.1%.

Finally, something for Buyer's Agents? Tell us what you think. We need your thoughts...

A way to control internet home shoppers by having them automatically contact you exclusively regarding all MLS Listings. Nothing like this exists anywhere. We're getting the IDX download for all MLS Open House Listings.

We looked and analyzed and designed and redesigned. This is a paradigm shift.

If you have a Client that found you on the internet, are they going to stop shopping on the internet? Not bloody likely!

With our Web Site, they choose you once as their Agent-4-Me and not only do YOU become the exclusive contact, but everybody they send a link to, and everybody those linked people send links to! We call it "Viral marketing!

You Link 'em, you Own 'em.

The NAR showed that the average Consumer sees 8 homes physically before making a purchase. How many times have you pulled into the driveway and had to convince them to come inside? Save the footwork! Send them a half dozen homes online on Thursday and have them decide which 2 or 3 they want to see on the weekend!

Here's how!

My partner took advantage of that and when she filed yesterday she found she's getting that and then some. I don't think people realize it's a CREDIT, i.e. if you owe $3,000 in taxes, which isn't unlikely for a non-home owner that can afford a home, appying the tax credit means you'd instead get a check for $5,000. We're not pushing it on our web site we're launching this week but I see the other local broker web sites are making a big deal out of it as they should.

I liken that announcement to the announcement that the analog TV signals are all going to go digital February 17th. What? Isn't it June now? I was so sick of those warnings but somebody didn't "hear" it. They're not "hearing" about the tax credit either, are they? What's it take to give away money? There are more than 300 homes for sale in Omaha under $65,000 and the payments for that are less than $500/month PITI. That's a lot of money to save on a home like that! Oh, see those and others at our web site, 4114OpenHouses.com/omaha.

Thanks to all who helped us get back to page 1 for Google, for 4114OpenHouses.com and we went from oblivion to page one for Ask.com as well. Now, how do we keep up there before we launch soon? Blogging seems to have as much an impact as changing and manipulating and fine-tuning the meta tags. Reverse-engineering existing SEO champions is something to consider, eh?

It's like that promise from Trulia, "We guarentee if you buy our enhanced placement, you'll be in the top 3 of any search criteria." But they never addressed what happens if 4 people buy into that. In other words, we reworked the meta tag descriptions and key words but if the others with more traffic have the same ones, we won't win that battle. It's not an exact science or we'd read the same book and then how would they rank us?