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SmartZip-A Rating System for Real Estate Investors
Jun 23rd
Features More than 12 Million Investment-Rated Properties, Including Foreclosures, in
Home prices and mortgage rates are at historic lows and, in February, Fannie Mae announced a new policy to allow qualified investors and second home buyers to obtain up to 10 loans, replacing the previous four loan limit. “There is immense pent-up demand from investors looking to capitalize on this opportunity,” said Tom Glassanos, president and CEO of SmartZip. “With today’s announcement, SmartZip brings transparency to the best investment values in two of the top markets,
SmartZip Score is the first quantitative property rating to offer a risk-adjusted assessment of the investment potential of residential real estate. SmartZip Score applies proven stock and bond rating analytics to the most comprehensive base of real estate investment attributes ever assembled. On a 1-100 scale, SmartZip Score gives investors and homebuyers an easy and intuitive way to assess if a property is really worth buying. Properties are rated two ways: a “growth” score for risk-tolerant investors seeking above-average capital appreciation and an “income” score for risk-averse investors looking for consistent monthly cash flow.
SmartZip.com provides a full range of tools and features, making it the first one-stop online destination for real estate investment. Using visual, color-coded “heat maps,” and ratings-based market screening and home search tools, users can research and compare markets, then find and confirm top-rated for-sale and foreclosure properties, all based on investor criteria such as SmartZip Score, cash flow, appreciation, school ratings, and more.
SmartZip offers a variety of benefits to a range of audiences:
- SmartZip for Investors
- Identifies the best markets and best properties;
- Computes rental income and expenses to expect;
- Projects long-term cash flow and appreciation; and
- Assesses how to maximize after-tax returns.
- Identifies the best markets and best properties;
- SmartZip for Sellers and Listing Agents
- Calculates best price for rapid sale;
- Markets properties to a national buyer pool;
- Differentiates the value of properties; and
- Instills confidence in the value of a transaction.
- Calculates best price for rapid sale;
- SmartZip for Lenders
- Determines present and future collateral value of a property;
- Assesses the size of potential loss in foreclosure; and
- Simplifies the decision to foreclose or modify a loan.
- Determines present and future collateral value of a property;
“Online real estate sites are focused on what a home costs and not on what it’s really worth,” said Avi Gupta, vice president of research and marketing at SmartZip. “SmartZip Score is an independent, disciplined methodology that gets to the fundamentals of property value. In a time of uncertainty, fundamentals, not price, count most.”
About SmartZip, Inc.
SmartZip is the leading provider of independent, analytics-based ratings and research for real estate investment. SmartZip is used by investors and homebuyers looking to easily rate, compare and confirm the best properties to buy. The SmartZip Score™ is the first and only quantitative rating offering a risk-adjusted assessment of the investment potential of residential properties. SmartZip Score applies proven stock and bond rating analytics to the most comprehensive base of real estate investment attributes ever assembled. SmartZip is a privately held, venture backed corporation headquartered in
SmartZip and SmartZip Score are trademarks of SmartZip, Inc.
The Schmoozer Is A Top 100 Real Estate Blog!
Sep 10th
Despite the fact that we’ve been a little behind in our postings, we’ve managed to be listed a one of the Top 100 Real Estate Blogs according to International Listings. We are very honored to be listed alongside such an array of wonderful publications.
Viralink – Backlink Bonanza Works Wonders For Blog Promotion!
Mar 8th
Links from quality sites determine your worth in terms of Search Engine popularity and relevancy. It is a well known fact that unless your site or blog gets some quality backlinks – any popularity you might be gaining with each new post is short lived.
I have experienced it time and time again and the only way to stay ahead of the game is to get some quality sites link back to you consistently. And I’m not talking about link farms, links exchange sites or anything of the similar type. I’m talking about a New Concept – Viralink.
Read details and for possible participation.
I have run into this concept on Andy Coates website and it is quite a bit different form what I have previously seen. As such I have decided to join the ball game. Read more details on Andy’s Site and participate by copying / pasting information below to your site:
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Below is a matrix of 120 stars, I have already added a link to my blog onto one of the stars, all you need to do is copy and paste the grid into your blog and add your own link to one of the other spare stars, and tell others to do the same!
Viralink
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When I receive a ping back once you have added the Viralink to your site I will add your link to this grid, and each person who copies the grid from here will also link to your site!
Rules
No Porn Sites
Only 1 link per person (i.e don’t hog the viralink!)
Please don’t tamper with other peoples url’s
Enjoy!
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How It Works
Just so it is easier to see how this actually works, below is an example of the linking tree. If 3 people copied the above grid into their own browser, added their link and 3 other people copied from them these are the number of backlinks which would be received witht he centre light green circle being this page.
And if the procedure was repeated and each new person told 3 of their friends, the back links travel back to the source they were added!
And once again as word gets around and the link tree develops the number of backlinks grows greatly! So at this stage my blog would have 93 backlinks from only 4 levels of “saturation” and by level 5 your blog will also have 93 backlinks if you decide to take part.
Here are how the numbers add up, I will use the term saturation to describe the spread of the Viralink with Zero being your blog 1 being 1 link down, 2 being 2 links down and so on.
Saturation – Backlinks
0 – 0
1 – 3
2 – 12
3 – 39
4 – 93
5 – 336
6 – 1065
7 – 3252
8 – 9813
9 – 29,496
10 – 88,545
The above numbers rely on 3 people copying and pasting the Viralink onto their blog and that being replicated 3 times continuously 10 times. I think you will agree that the numbers are quite staggering, there are 119 spaces left on the Viralink from this page and I expect that there will be allot of clones which begin to pop up. The best strategy with this is to start early and tell all of your blog partners!
You may be wondering what happens if you are at the end of the chain when the Viralink is full ? What would be the benefit to me? Well there is no reason why you cant add another line of dots to the bottom and keep the process going, or even start another form scratch.
My Blog Log Gravy Train!
Jan 5th
MyBlogLog Community is definitely important to me. I interact with several of my MBL community members daily…and quite frankly may not have ever found their blogs if I hadn’t browsed MBL on occasion. Please take some time to visit each of the communities below and consider joining.
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Here are the rules:
1) Write a short introduction about how you found this list and include a link back to that blog.
2) COPY the rules and ENTIRE list below and post it on your blog.
3) Take “My New Community Members” and move them into the “The Original Community Members” list.
4) Find 3 new blogs, join their MyBlogLog Community and add them to the “My New Community Members” section. Remember to also add the “Join the Community” link next to your new blogs. ( Example: http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/shawnknight/ )
5) Join as a member to each Community listed here by clicking on “Join the Community”. The goal is that all of the new Members listed will join your community, and you should do the same!
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