Monthly Archives: February 2008

RPG – not Role Playing Game

By CurtisBarron | Published: February 28, 2008
Google “RPG”, and your first hits will be about role playing games. But before there were Role Playing Games, there was RPG (Report Program Generator). This was the name of a computer programming language developed in the 1960’s by IBM. It was designed to generate reports (thus the name) in a terse, simple way. It [...]
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Identifying a Meth Lab

By Spencer Barron | Published: February 19, 2008
The City and County of Boulder (Colorado) has a great website resource for identifying a meth lab.  With the rise in foreclosures and more agents being the first people to enter recently vacant homes after and possibly during a foreclosure, a little education can go along way for your own safety and the safety of your clients.  Going into [...]
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Condo Conversions and the Dark Underbelly of the Subprime Mess

By Spencer Barron | Published: February 19, 2008
I just walked out of the second recent condo conversion in a month that I saw back on the market way at about 30% of what it had sold for.  It had been ‘flipped’ in 2006 by some investors.  In my humble opinion, it seems suspicious to me when large numbers of foreclosures show up all at once in [...]
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My Top Ten Posts – Not just real estate and not just me.

By Spencer Barron | Published: February 15, 2008
 Out of curiosity, I had to check to see what people were reading outside of my main page and feed.  Essentially what posts attracted the most hits from search engines and links from other blogs.  Here’s how they show up in order of popularity.   Why Johnny Can’t Code and How to Help Him. by Curtis Barron  - What!  [...]
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Top 5 reason's to buy a home right now. The Spring of 2008

By Spencer Barron | Published: February 14, 2008
I’m sure there is a lot of reason’s why you may feel you shouldn’t buy a home right now, but here are reasons you should. 1.  You are an investor with a long term view to acquire properties that should appreciate during the next cycle while cash flowing in the short term.   Great investors don’t buy in hot markets, [...]
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HQHomes just launched a new website and blog…

By Spencer Barron | Published: February 14, 2008
I know what your thinking,  HQwho?  Don’t fault yourself for not hearing of it.  I’ve been working with them for about three years now during which we’ve (notice my team approach) implemented many changes to improve the overall direction and marketing presence of the company.  Since some of the others in our company are just warming up [...]
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Real Estate, Art and the Mad Man

By Spencer Barron | Published: February 1, 2008
Can you imagine what the Mona Lisa would look like if Leonardo da Vinci worked quickly with a 4 inch brush?  He probably would not have caught the details necessary to communicate his intent and we likely would never have even heard of this masterpiece.  If the details get lost in translation, much of the [...]
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