I have not been that generous with linking to other blogs and sources lately. Something I will work hard to change in 2009. The reason I am publishing these “link posts” is to recognize the outstanding work by other bloggers and writers. I need to know about your blog in order to ever link to you in the future.

• Home Mortgage Rates Expected To Drop Below 5% Soon- Very good news in the form of lower home loan rates is beginning to unfold across the nation. After peaking just above 6% in Spring 2008, rates are currently just above 5% and expected to continue to fall over the weeks ahead. According to The Wall Street Journal (Home-Mortgage Rates’ Next Stop: Below 5%; January 2, 2009, page C2) house moneyrates may fall even further, perhaps as low as 4.5% for a fixed rate thirty year loan.
• Answers Answers Answers -I’m a big fan of engaging consumers online and answering their questions as a marketing strategy (see Impart your Wisdom with Answers). It’s not a new strategy, not particularly inventive, but it is effective. Really, it’s win-win all around. For consumers they get what they want (i.e. the answers to their questions). Realtors and brokers get to build relationships with potential clients in an neutral forum with people that may never seek them out on their own web sites. And for publishers it’s a great way to build up engagement/stickiness through cheap (read, free) user-generated content.
• Sellsius Blog Predictions for 2009- Communal blogger rental spaces will pop up in New York and other cities to provide “work” spaces for bloggers whose mates complain they’re blogging too much and not rustling up some real business.
• Top 10 Largest Landowners in United States – You will never guess!
• Real Estate / Financial Crisis Turns Deadly; Crisis-Related Suicides Expected To Rise – The subprime mortgage turned banking turned credit crisis has morphed, as expected, into a killer.

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