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Last week Redfin.com introduced Redfin 3.0, we decided to focus our show around this topic and more importantly discuss the ramifications of this change and how it would affect the markets we compete in. Special Guest host K-Cee of BJP Entertainment chimed in on his thoughts on service and the real estate experience.

Click here for the show that aired on February 21st, 2012.

About Market Street Radio:

Market Street Radio is a show that consists of eclectic music, real estate and intelligent talk. Your hosts Max and EJ attempt to document their crazy lives; war stories and experiences as every day super real estate agents in the bustling San Francisco Bay Area. Market Street Radio will have guest DJs from around the city showcasing what’s hot and what’s not mixed in with local real estate news and scandal plus guest interviews of what is going on in the community.

2. Access. Today’s customer demands convenience, so having more than one way to enter or leave a store is preferable. Avoid sites that require turns across medians, which prevent cross lane turning.

3. Signing. Signs play a critical role in business identity and in helping customers find a business. A retailer’s facade sign should be visible from at least 200 feet away.

4. Traffic. Whether vehicular or pedestrian, every site needs traffic to prosper. Prime areas are located near intersecting streets with traffic lights.  Streets with slower speed limits make it easier for drivers to see signage.

5. Activity. Unless a retail business is strictly destination-oriented, a site must have a good amount of diverse, nearby activity to draw shoppers to an area. Grocery stores, gas stations, post offices, and schools all bring people to an area frequently.

6. Visibility. No site selection factor is more important. Watch for barriers such as trees or download slopes that block long-distance views of the site.

Ralph Migliozzi began his career in finance in 1982. After his promotion to management in the consumer finance industry, he moved to Great Western Financial Services where he performed second mortgages. In 1986 he took a commission job originating first mortgages for a mortgage firm.  After his promotion to vice president in 1988, he started his own mortgage corporation in 1989. In 1993 he began broadcasting a radio show he produces and hosts, known as “Mortgage Magazine,” on KNCO am in Grass Valley, CA.

Max and EJ talk about foreclosure and the mortgage meltdown.  They also listen to Lana Del Rey, Of Monsters and Men and Pretty Lights mixed in between.

Fun times with Max and EJ as they talk about Real Estate, Music, and Mortgages.

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We are also going to be completing a project that took 5 years to create. I was in law school then, single and was still working with my family at the old brokerage. Time really did fly by. In all of that little span of time, I moved back and forth from San Diego, have a child and am living in a city called American Canyon. Who would have thought?

Over the last few months, more changes in my life have really started to tell me that things are not forever – and after the beginning of this year I have no arguments with that saying. As much as I would like think that some things are without end, it certainly can’t be true. You go to sleep one night thinking you are this person and wake up the next morning being another.  A loss of identity maybe,  reinventing myself definitely.

My daughter is growing up so fast, it is really amazing where the time goes. Maybe I should spend more time with her now, I just know that I may not have the opportunity later.  She will be 10 months old this month and I am just astonished at old she looks.

I do see the writing on the wall, it is time for a change and I know that I have been waiting in the wings long enough. So it starts again.

Cities like Las Vegas, Riverside. Calif., and Phoenix have seen median home prices fall 50%, 44% and 37% from their respective peaks. If you were to take a look at the jobs that are being posted on Craigslist, jobs are ~ dare I say it truly vanishing and companies are paying less for those once coveted services.

So as of today, I have begun to repost my work that I have done over the years. It has been a great deal of work but of some of my loyal readers have asked for it so here it is.