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We are looking for examples to as many of the 101 Reasons to Use a Real Estate Agent.

The more examples that we have, the better the document will be as a reference to respond to 

articles like USA Today's Recent "Five Reasons NOT to use a Real Estate Agent" and other FSBO arguments.

Please visit 101 Reasons to Use a Real Estate Agent and leave your comments. 

http://blog.homegain.com/101-reasons-to-use-a-real-estate-agent-realtor

HomeGain will publish the revised list as part of our third annual Agent Appreciation Month in August.

Pat Kitano of transparentre.com recently blogged about HomeGain and Web 2.0 on the HomeGain Blog.

The post is called "HomeGain Evolves with Web 2.0" http://blog.homegain.com/HomeGain-Evolves-with-Web-2-0-Patrick-Kitano

 
In the blog post, Pat notes how HomeGain is making homegain.com more accessible to its visitors.

Here are a few more tools that we have that are good for consumer AND help connect consumers to realtors:

The Home Sale Maximizer tool

 http://www.homesalemaximizer.com

 HomeGain's Instant Home Valuation Tool 

http://www.homegain.com/home-values  The original PRE Zillow HVAL tool

HomeGain Agent Blogs

http://www.homegain.com/realestate-blog

And

The HomeGain Blog

 http://blog.homegain.com 

I stumbled across this article when see how well our 101 Reasons to Use a Real Estate Agent blog post did on google

http://blog.homegain.com/101-reasons-to-use-a-real-estate-agent-realtor

Here is USA Today's point of view!

http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/real-estate/2008/05/22/5-reasons-you-dont-need-an-agent.html?msg=1

Thankfully the article takes comments and I posted the 101 reasons to use an agent as a rejoinder.

http://blog.homegain.com/101-reasons-to-use-a-real-estate-agent-realtor

In these days of FSBO pronouncements "anyone can do it" HomeGain is re presenting its "101 Reasons to Use a Real Estate Agent." HomeGain will feature the revised document as part of our Third Annual Agent Appreciation Month, later this year.

Feel free to add to the list or to add specific examples to the value you add to a real estate transaction

http://blog.homegain.com/101-reasons-to-use-a-real-estate-agent-realtor

Here is a great blog by Mike Farmer, HomeGain Guest blogger as he explains one of the values that realtors bring to real estate transactions. Mike's blog post, Holding Real Estate Deals Together is a great reminder of the valuable service realtors provide to their clients. http://blog.homegain.com/Holding-Real-Estate-Deals-Together-Earning-Our-Keep-Mike-Farmer

What do you think of twitter?

Some discussion here:

http://blog.homegain.com/speaking-in-thumbs-louis-cammarosano

Interested in hearing some of your experiences