Consumer Focused Carnival of Real Estate

The guidelines for this carnival.

As always, I arranged the entries that met guidelines into three levels, based upon originality, usefulness to the consumer, and how much thought and effort and research went into an entry.

STRONGLY RECOMMENDED

There were no strongly recommended articles this time, and therefore, no Host's Choice.

RECOMMENDED

Do neighbors really make good fences? talks about adverse possession, a real fact of the law that can cause you to lose title to part of your property.

Asheville, Anywhere: Costs of Heat and Utilities talks about how to take the cost of utilities into consideration when buying.

How To Calculate Blended Interest Rates. Please note that blended interest rates tend to rise slightly with time, as the lower interest loan gets paid off more quickly in most cases.

Save Money (and the Planet) While Remodeling Your Home talks about deconstruction. Keep in mind that for most people, a $4200 tax deduction does not offset $2500 in direct expenses, but it's it definitely something worth considering. Check with a tax professional, of course.

MET GUIDELINES

How To Stay Calm In The Real Estate Market

Investors & Landlords: What Kind of Car Should You Drive?

SPAM AND OTHER RIDICULOUS SUBMISSIONS

A Site named Home Security Guru submitted an article called "A Buyers guide to Security Camera Systems", which failed to so much as mention real estate. He may call himself a home security guru, but he's a spamming nitwit.

A Site named The Quisani League submitted a purely political post The Future of Tomorrow which makes several factual errors, has no thought process, and fails to so much as mention real estate. Spam spam spam spam...

How Credit Rating Consequences Can Affect Your Life manages to mention real estate, but that's all. Furthermore, it gives no useful details, and despite this, what little information it tries to impart is mostly wrong. We have a triple crown loser!

DIY Home Security: 100 Essential Tips, Tools, and Resources uses a bullet point format for the entire article, and every single one of those bullet points is trying to sell you something. Spam trying unsuccessfully to masquerade as something useful. The entire site looks like a spam blog to me. Time for this site to join the Blacklist!

For those who might object to the treatment their submission received, the relevant information has been in the guidelines since before submissions were being accepted for this carnival. Having been told to read the guidelines, you willingly submitted these posts. Live with it.

Consumer Focused Carnival of Real Estate will return in one month on December 30, 2008, here at Searchlight Crusade, unless someone else wants to host. Deadline for submissions will be Midnight December 28th.