Nick Dominguez

After reading this article I’m glad to see democracy is alive and well in Russia. It has been interesting to read and hear about what has been happening to Garry Kasparov as he tries to let the world know about the dramatic erosion of Russia’s young democracy. Putin is definitely out to get this guy.

The real estate market in South Florida and I think the rest of the country is pretty rotten right now. Although I dig our agent, I’ve come to the conclusion that agents don’t really do all that much for you, they come in handy when the deal is ready to be done and can navigate you through the final waters of the deal, but that’s about it. I’m waiting for the web to really take a bigger part in the process of selling a house, what Zillow is doing is awesome and I’m hoping it’s but a glimpse of what is to come. The MLS system is dated, bloated and needs to just die, it was probably a great solution back in the day, but with the web I would seriously question it’s usefulness. We all need to stop taking money out of houses and realize that the equity in our homes is really the only form of savings we have. The tools and resources exist (Craigslist, Google Base, Trulia, RealEstate ABC)to give consumers more power and freedom in selling their house, so why isn’t anyone using it? Is it because we all need to have real estate agents to hold our hands throughout the whole process? Can we create some sort of new profession which consists of somebody that will essentially close the deal between both parties? Maybe like a mix between a title company and a real estate agent? That’s it for now, maybe once I sell my condo I’ll have more positive things to say about this whole process

Just wrapped up the Ourscene logo last night. This project was a good lesson in learning that sometimes less is more and that you don’t need to keep hacking away at something if it just isn’t working. I’ll be writing a post on the process over at the Ourscene blog shortly which I will link up from here.