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Residential real estate is not rocket science. We know that this housing crisis is:
1. Explainable – bad lending, mad speculation, wild expectations, government meddling
2. Isolated – bad mortgages, negative equity, strategic default, government meddling
3.…

RISMEDIA, July 8, 2010—Protecting your brand and your hard-earned reputation is one of the biggest challenges real estate professionals face today with the proliferation of social media within the industry. In this month’s Power Broker Roundtable, industry leaders Doug Rebert, Steve A. Brown and Charlie Bengel, Jr. discuss how real estate companies can prepare for disaster as well as the most proactive ways to handle a disaster—should one occur.

Moderator:
Steve Brown, Special Liaison for Large Firm Relations,…

RISMEDIA, June 30, 2010—(MCT)—For countless Americans struggling to make their mortgage payments, the problems have just begun.

Although a loan modification or foreclosure might allow them to put their housing problems behind them, millions will be dogged for years by the aftermath—a credit score so tarnished by the housing debacle that lenders will want to avoid them. And if they are able to obtain loans, high interest rates are likely to strain their budgets.

This is one remnant…