Improving?

I have been hearing good news coming from the street the past thirty days, is this a sign?  Many of my friends in the title business have told me that their new orders have increased and they may have the best closed order month of the year, does this sound familiar to you?  It may be a sign that the market is changing in Central Arkansas, or it may be just a blip on the radar screen.  Now, before you go out and hire additional staff, let me remind you that we need more than one decent month before we get too excited!  I think it is going to stable out a bit, due to the fact that the lending groups are getting a better feel for what it will take to get a loan approved in these market conditions, the Realtors are also getting a good handle on what price range is selling.  The real estate market made an adjustment and it appears that the participants in the game have finally made the adjustment to the new market. Let me know if you agree or disagree with my observations.  I look forward to your comments.

Does anyone understand all of this new technology?

Like many of us, I read quite a few real estate news outlets on-line, and today I was once again blown away with the technology available to us.  It seems like the new “hot topic” today is… what are we doing to stay networked with our clients and friends.  As if a cell phone and texting is not good enough!!  Now we can join sites such as www.linkedin.com and the new one I learned about this morning, www.twitter.com .  What the heck is twitting?  The best I can tell it enables you to send one message to all of your network telling them what you have been up too!  Let me know if you have ever heard of twitter.  I have heard of another source of text marketing called www.sumotext.com.  This appears to be a method for “text blasting” to your entire network.  From what I am gathering, in certain parts of the country, this kind of marketing and networking with clients is becoming very “fashionable”, do you think it plays in a market like Arkansas?