Media and Resources

The Sub-Prime Crisis and How it Affects You

By Denise Lones, The Lones Group, Inc. as published at the Real Estate Training Center. New Century Financial Corp., the second largest sub-prime mortgage lender, went broke and the New York Stock Exchange has suspended trading for the company, once a giant among lenders. Denise Lones discusses what the sub-prime crisis means to real estate agents and how they can responsibly explain its market effects to their clients. Click here to read it now.

Is Your Real Estate Investor a Seasoned Pro or a 'Wannabe'?

By Denise Lones, The Lones Group, Inc. as published at the Real Estate Training Center. Get the right real estate investor the first time. Denise Lones walks you through how to ask the right questions and how to spot queues that may indicate that your investor is not the seasoned professional they would like you to think they are. Click here to read it now.

Denise Lones on Active Rain

Denise Lones, CSP MIRM, is a Real Estate analyst, columnist, trainer, systems expert, and marketing consultant with the innate ability to be able to tell it like it is. She boasts an impressive list of awards for her marketing and business development systems, and is widely published as a knowledgeable authority on real estate market history and trends. You can learn more about Denise, read her blog, and discover how she has helped many real estate agents become successful at the Active Rain Real Estate Network. Click here to visit Active Rain.

Perceptions Vs. Reality

25 Reasons the Bubble Theory Doesn't Fly, By Brian T. Larrabee, Estate of Mind, Inc. as published in Mortgage Planner Magazine. Brian dispels conventional assumptions regarding the Bubble Theory with enlightening facts that tell an entirely different story. Learn how to recognize opportunity in market trends by becoming more aware of market history. Click here to read it now.

Using Estate of Mind's CMPS Institute Approved Tools

CMPS Institute Conference Call with Gibran Nicholas: Listen as Gibran Nicholas and Brian Larrabee (Estate of Mind’s founder) dig into the facts, clarity and insight provided by both the Home Economics Chart and Total Costs & Benefits Calculator and how you can use them to help build your business. Learn what you desperately need to know to fight back against the “bubble” theory so prevalent in the media today. Click here to watch the presentation.

Trade Up Now? Why a Soft Market Deserves a Hard Look

By Brian T. Larrabee, Estate of Mind, Inc. as published in The Mortgage Press. Learn how to turn the general media's buzz about the "housing bubble" to your potential advantage. Click here to read it now.

Housing Bubble? A Look Beyond the Sound Bites

By Brian T. Larrabee, Estate of Mind, Inc. as published in the 12/06 The Mortgage Press. Get beyond the "me too" and wait-and-see atmosphere of the housing market in the face of media hyped doom and gloom housing marktet musings. Click here to read it now.