The Dane County Community Blog Network

This guy built it-with a smile!

My friend in real life Pat Laemmrich

loves what he does.

Pat has been working for the better part of a decade

helping Realtors and small businesses

get noticed more.

So, he decided to build the

Dane County Community Blog Network .

(okay, I helped a little...)

It's a 14-blog, multi-website,

plugged-into-social-media-network.

Each blog is jam-packed full of HD video real estate listings,

like this one:



(YouTube - WhirligigMarketing)


...and there are also links to community, school, local government

and even some news and goings-on!

Pat says the idea is simple -

everyone, everywhere has a story to tell,

and he helps them tell it better.

You can get ahold of of Pat here.

Or on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, -

Basically everywhere.

(But if you tell him I sent you,
don't be surprised if he chuckles a bit...)

Gotta run, the sun is out!

Steve
shsworks@sbcglobal.net
920-691-6030

Wisconsin real estate: Neenah looks to past, working to preserve historic Island neighborhood: http://tinyurl.com/4glnc7l - postcrescent.com

The Kids Are Alright-Fort Atkinson, WI High School Students ROCK!

Youth is NOT wasted on the young!

The kids at Fort Atkinson High School are in it to win it-

seventeen's Ultimate Prom contest!

And here are their Top Ten reasons

why they should WIN!


(YouTube-stilealy)

...The prize? A major prom featuring
the band Boys Like Girls!

...and of course, memories to last a lifetime.

The prom is slated for May 8, 2010.

The theme-Treasure Island.

Head over here to check out the contest!

(...as far as real estate goes here-
glad to see tax dollars being used for FUN! ;) )

Steve
shsworks@sbcglobal.net
920-691-6030

WHEDA is "Back in Business" - What's next for Wisconsin real estate?

(Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority)

...and it is a bright spot in the Wisconsin real estate market!

WHEDA exec director Antonio Riley was all over everywhere on Feb. 12, back in action with new 30-year mortgage plans after suspending mortgages to low and middle-income buyers in October of 2008.

Who helped set it up? The U.S. Treasury of course-they picked up 325 million bucks of WHEDAs' long-term bond obligations. (Frees up a little cash for WHEDA, of course.)

Add in the extension of the popular $8,000 tax credits for first time buyers, a credit score of 660, and a down payment possibly as low as 1,000 and you're off to the races.

But-get to the finish line before or by April 30th, when the tax credits are likely to stop.

WHEDA is working on other loan products, too. Maybe they can cook something up with the Treasury to help out the 104,000 people in Wisconsin set to lose their unemployment by the the end of April .

Unless those unemployment benefits are extended, another wave of distressed properties will start to overload an already saturated housing market, with foreclosures and jingle mail to follow if nothing is done to help the long-term unemployed homeowner.

The news from WHEDA is great for first timers, but no one seems to be paying much attention to the start-over crowd.

And that crowd might get a lot bigger. It would definitely be too big to fail.

Steve
shsworks@sbcglobal.net

One more reason why real estate will remain crazy for a while...

Oooooookie dokie...

so, then-the FDIC wants to borrow money from banks:

(YouTube - Bloomberg )

I am not an economist, just another blogger-

but hey, I know the banks in my neck of the woods aren't doing so good.

More later.

Not borrowing, I mean-just blogging.

Steve

Social Media Is Not A Pet Rock

Social Media is Not A Pet Rock

(from www.socialnomics.net)


...but it does rock!

Get over it.

Get into it.

Get on with it.

Steve
shsworks@sbcglobal.net
920-691-6030

448 Free Ideas for Blogs, Photos and Social Media Updates

Here you go!

448 Free Ideas for Blogs, Photos and Updates.

Just for you.

So take them, use them, pass them around, share them!

And thanks for sharing yours with me every now and then.

We all need a little tickling of our muse

every now and then,

and of course,

...collaboration is the cornerstone of social media.

Just click here

scroll down a bit, and smile.

Thanks!

Steve

shsworks@sbcglobal.net

920-691-6030

Antiques Roadshow, here we come!

Antiques Roadshow, here we come!

(SHS Photo)

Maybe furniture is just as crazy as real estate.

BFF Theresa -(seen smiling in this photo)-

stands in our living room behind

an 1820s-30s Philadelphia Empire chair.

A few weeks ago, she sent in some pics and a description to

Antiques Roadshow on PBS

and well, they are coming to get the piece right now for the show

in Madison, WI this weekend.

How did we get this chair?

From my Mom, who found it in a second-hand store in Grand Marais, MN

(years ago)

for like, between 30-50 bucks.

It had been retired from being the throne

for the Queen of the annual Fisherman's Picnic,

as she rode around in the back of a pick-up truck.

The very comfy chair has been around since I was a kid

and it has visited all my siblings.

Since then, Theresa found out as she researched it for a paper at UW-Madison

it has, well, an interesting-

and possible rarefied history.

This is going to be a highlight of Theresa's professional life as

a master upholsterer, antique/restoration shop owner,

furniture design and operations manager

and manager of a a high-end retail furnishings store.

Me?

I hope the Keno Brothers don't catch me napping in it

while we wait for the appraisal.

More later as we head to the show,

Steve

shsworks@sbcglobal.net

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Steve

shsworks@sbcglobal.net

920-691-6030