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 submitted this time.

RECOMMENDED

Home prices to decline another 20% has a lot of data and is worth reading for the thought process, but see how many reasons you can spot for disagreeing with the conclusion as I do.

Don't let your dream house become a nightmare discusses rehabilitating "meth houses" and is specific to Colorado, but a lot of the information applies elsewhere.

New Home Staging Tips That Will Sell Your House You Can Do It Yourself This is only a small part of the battle, but an important one.

Your host presents The Hope (Dashed) For Homeowners Program

MET GUIDELINES

The Benefits of a Pre-Retirement Vacation Home

Spruce it Up - 25 DIY Tips to Improve your Home's Exterior Looks like link-trolling so they can sell engineering schools, but they did meet the guidelines.

Real Estate Supply And Demand gets the idea right but is very basic, to the point of wondering if you learned anything from the time you spend reading it. But it did meet guidelines.

Santa, All I Want for Christmas is a Decent-Sized, Decent-Priced House. Observation: if the properties are selling for those prices, then they're not overpriced, are they?

Getting a Second Mortgage Generic, and really no useful information, but it does meet guidelines.

SPAM AND OTHER RIDICULOUS SUBMISSIONS

The mental midget at NLP Marketing Blog sent a self improvement post that did not so much as mention real estate on the benefits of visualization. Visualization lacks the real world feedback of whether you're actually getting the skills correct - for instance, he probably visualized getting accepted and a link from this carnival, instead he is getting the real world feedback of a severe fail. Given this feedback, it's conceivable he'll will gain the skill of submitting to carnivals. Then again, maybe he'll just go visualize writing something on real estate. But if he'd better actually do so before submitting to this carnival again.

Campello Apartments is trolling a "get rich quick" scheme guaranteed to get him rich. Others, not so much. Very short on details, no concrete information whatsoever. Avoid this clown if you value your wallet.

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 January 30, 2009, here at Searchlight Crusade, unless someone else wants to host. Deadline for submissions will be Midnight December 28th.