Web Portal Prescott-Area-Foreclosures.com Integrates Twitter into Web 2.0 Strategy
Print This Post Today Patrick Schutte, Chief Blogging Officer and Certified Foreclosure Specialist at RE/MAX Mountain Properties in Prescott, Arizona, announced the integration of Twitter into the Web 2.0 strategy at Prescott-Area-Foreclosures.com. The addition of the Twitter capablilty that will enhance the data flow and customer service capabilities for the site that serves the needs of buyers and sellers of REO/bank-owned and short sales properties in the Quad-Cities area of Northern Arizona including Prescott, Prescott Valley, Chino Valley, and Dewey-Humboldt.
Haven’t heard of Twitter? Twitter is a simple messaging service. It’s a fun, practical, and useful tool, and well worth trying if you want to reach out to potential and existing customers. Twitter is similar to blogging as it lets you write messages that other people can read. But unlike blogging, SMS is one of the major delivery systems, and Twitter limits your messages to 140 characters. Readers receive Twitter updates (called “tweets”) via email, on their phones via SMS, via IM, RSS or on the Web. The brevity, combined with the variety of delivery systems, make Twitter a powerful tool for people on the go.
Twitter integration will serve five main functions:
1. Share analysis about market conditions,local foreclosure news, etc.
2. Share other people’s ideas that are relevant to the local real estate market.
3. Build the brand equity of the site. The more ways people are able to interact with the site, the better.
4. Engage customers by soliciting feedback.
5. Provide customer service by responding to inquiries.
When asked why Prescott and Prescott Valley foreclosure buyers and sellers would benefit from the intergration of Twitter into the site, Patrick Schutte said, “Buyers will benefit by getting tweets on properties that have been recently listed and are “hot.” Sellers will be able to get market snapshot data without having to open their email or read a report. And both will be able to use Twitter to ask questions or receive service.”
Califronia-based buyer and real estate investor, Bob Coan, was one of the driving factors behind the integration of Twitter into the site, “The data on Patrick’s Prescott Area Foreclosure blog is extensive and complete, but often I’m in an airport and by adding Twitter, I’ll be able to stay on top of the Prescott Valley foreclosure markets while I’m on the fly.”
To start tweeting with Patrick and to stay of top of the market for Prescott AZ area foreclosures: http://twitter.com/prescottreos
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Thanks for your comment, Robert. I think if you read the entirety of my blog you will see that I try to post the current news and views about the market. You are welcome to post your analysis of what the market will do. My readers welcome input from all sides.
Thank you! This is just what I was looking for. Keep up the great work!
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Great blog post. The media will never pick up on this because it is more complicated than a soundbite.
If I may add that with the number of outstanding loans that are scheduled to reset in the next couple of years, decreasing home values and stricter lending guidelines, the rate of foreclosures are on track to peak in 2010. Short sales have become a growing niche for Real Estate Agents to sell homes before they become bank owned.
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1/3 on the market are foreclosed or short sales – wow. It’s nice that you research this information. The agents who represent home sellers prob don’t share that info with buyers. Take care.
Dear Patrick,
Great article! I agree with you. I also would like to add couple more alternatives to those homeowners who want to stay in their homes.
There are two products those aren’t widely knowing and common in the market place. Trsutee Foreclosure Delays and Loan Re-Write.
Did you know that Homeowners are illegally being foreclosed on especially in Trustee States?
In Judicial Foreclosure states, a judge reviews the legality of the foreclosure proceedings to ensure the homeowner is being protected against greedy lenders and yet still the lenders are not properly following the foreclosure laws correctly (see this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/nyregion/31judge.html?_r=2).
In Trustee States, lenders employ a “third party” trustee company to replace the legal function of a judge and orchestrate the foreclosure process. If banks are not legally foreclosing when they know a judge reviews the case what do you think they are doing when they only have to go through a trustee that they pay? And what is more interesting, the trustee company is liable for the foreclosure proceedings but who is going after the trustee companies to review the legality of these foreclosure packages? You guess it! Yes, No one is..!
Did you know that a loan Re-Write program has the ability to reduce homeowner’s current loan balance down to the current market value at prime + 3%?
Here is an example: You owe $500K on your home but it is only worth $350k. Investors will bulk purchase the note from your current lender and re-write it back to you at $350k, saving you (the homeowner) over $150k!
I hope this helps!
To find out more about our services you may want to visit http://ASNDinc.com/
Yamen Elasadi
yamen@ASNDinc.com
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This is good news… Foreclosure market needs movement to make more money and start leaving this situation
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