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City Group had a pretty good bead on things to come. The housing numbers are not good. They are the lowest they have been since 1995. "The existing home sales, completed transactions including single family, town homes, condominiums, and co-ops dropped 27.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.83 million units in July from a downwardly revised 5.26 million in June, and are 25.5 percent below the 5.14 million unit level in July 2009."

We all thought the tax credit would help, but it made things worse. Lets all hope the numbers pick up quickly and the government makes it a little bit easier to hire people and kick start the economy.

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Inman Real Estate Connect, San Francisco 2010; Mr. Guest on how technology has changed the face of the real estate work flow and experience. We need to get back to the business of actually showing properties and selling real estate.

Tom Guest: My thoughts are in the old days we used to have a real state book we would open up, we go and show properties and everybody were dependent on us. What I see now is that there is so much technology out there that I am just absolutely amazed its almost like you could do a full time job with just technology and do nothing else we wouldnt have time for real estate but you would have a lot of fun going through all these applications all these programs and all those research and you go through all these broker matrixes and you will not be an expert on everything real estate because you dont have the time. So my thought is, is that...

Mark Eibner: Get an assistant?

Tom Guest: You have to have an assistant but you have to take time to actually do the business of showing properties listing properties and going out there and doing the nuts and bolts and I guess you could supplement that with transaction broker have somebody be there for you getting assistant do that for you, you have somebody who is a lead assistant have somebody who does your Internet for you but there is so much more to doing nowadays that used to be really easy the old days where you would just go out so properties everybody was dependent upon but now they are not dependent on you so its a whole new world that I am just amazed not to be kept we could do it, we would have to do in the course of the day everyone in the US like with all the technology thats available

Mark Eibner: Absolutely great.

Tom Guest: Im amazed.

Mark Eibner: Thanks Tom. Tom Guest President Elect 2011 Metro Brokers, chow.

Tom Guest: Chow

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Inman Real Estate Connect, San Francisco 2010; Mr. Shields discusses apps at the Inman Real Estate Connect as well as the increase of interaction from attendees.

Mark Eibner: Scott Shield Metro Brokers so what can you add to what Joe had to say?

Scott Shields: Continuing on it was all about apps and I want to say what was that one company thats going to put out the other company when their when their apps releases next week.

Second Person: Oh I dont know they were saying its going to be another Twitter thing like there is going to be a Twitter run for their money.

Third Person: Its going to replace Pulse.

Second Person: Announce whats his name Scoburg didnt.

Third Person: Yeah Scolburge didnt..

Second Person: He said Pulse is done.

Scott Shields: Yeah Pulse is done so find out next week at whats to be done?

Mark Eibner: So Scott did it change from the last time you were here, you were here about a couple of years ago?

Scott Shields: Two years ago.

Mark Eibner: And so you feel what do you feel thats different?

Scott Shields: More booths.

Mark Eibner: Smaller booths.

Scott Shields: More food.

Mark Eibner: More food I agree.

Scott Shields: Hey that was true.

Mark Eibner: More heaters too here.

Scott Shields: Yeah more involvement by the participants more attendees interaction yeah, acts through.

Mark Eibner: So most its the most questions I have ever seen asked, thats true.

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Inman Real Estate Connect, San Francisco 2010; Joe Bennell: Technology, social media, mobile apps, and public records data seems to be the theme of this Real Estate Connect. Everythings going hand held...

Mark Eibner: Joe how is it going.

Joe Bennell: It's going awesome you got to love this thing at the conference its awesome.

Mark Eibner: So I could come up with a theme from time on what the conference is really about this time other than lots of vendors so we maybe you can help me out what do you think its been about this time?

Joe Bennell: This time its about mobile aps in talks about social media theyre still touching on that and also public record data that they had a big, pretty big question on the RPR deal there so that was that one was pretty good. So we are excited about that and I am just excited with the RPR stuff as well as the mobile aps so anyway thats where were all headed, I had everything has gone hand hill buddy.

Mark Eibner: You have been at iPads, iPhones, not as a band but a device.

Joe Bennell: iPads thats iPhones.

Mark Eibner: Thats a device.

Joe Bennell: Android market is huge its up and coming so they are predicting the Android is going to take over iPhone.

Mark Eibner: Part of 160,000 units every week.

Joe Bennell: Right everyday.

Mark Eibner: Hey Scott, 160,000 everyday I thought it was very week.

Mark Eibner: You know its 160,000 a day.

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What makes the Eagles so special; also, a strong marketing force aligned with an iconic and strong Colorado presence makes this a dynamic partnership.

Kevin McGlue: I am Kevin McGlue the voice of the Colorado Eagles we are here at the beautiful Budweiser Event center in Loveland Colorado. To give you a better idea what the Colorado Eagles are all about no better man to do that than Eagles captain Riley Nelson and Riley when you think about a special place to play, what is it that makes the Eagles so special?

Riley Nelson: Well I think its the support that community gives us you know night in and night out Monday, Wednesday; Saturday it doesnt matter that here to cheer us on and expect to win.

Kevin McGlue: 267 consecutive sale outs here, thats a minor league record what is that the fans provide to you on the ice?

Riley Nelson: Well they, you know they give you that extra tracker and they know they can tell when we are down a little bit, they get on and they get up on the field and gives us a little push.

Kevin McGlue: Two championships, three governor's cups high expectations here how do you fulfill them each and every year?

Riley Nelson: Well you know you put the trust in the coaching staff to bring in competitive players that want to be here and want to win every year and so far we have done that and we are looking to do it again.

Kevin McGlue: That is Eagles captain Riley Nelson 500 points with the Colorado Eagles and that is a closer look at what makes Eagles so special both on and off the ice?

Doug Lindstrom: Northern Colorado needed this affiliation from Metro Brokers point of view just to be affiliated with something as strong and recognized as the Colorado Eagles, so that we can have more signs, for sales signs, more presence that the consumer will feel more comfortable in doing business with us.

Tom Guest: This is a strong marketing force in Northern Colorado and we feel by aligning ourselves with this. We have five to 6000 people coming to these games and seen our Metro Broker logo, seen Metro Broker exposure and these are potential log clients where each and every one of us not only that but they have a radio presence, they have a TV presence and this is a very strong message to Northern Colorado.

Ike Isenhart: We have not had the representation that we wanted and we feel that this is a very viable way to do that, partnering with Eagles and having such a presence up here in beautiful event center.

Kevin McGlue: Now joined by the President, General Manager and head coach of the Colorado Eagles Mr. Chris Stewart, coach you won CHL championships you have hung two of those banners here at the Budweiser event center, but what is it that makes this building this team, this community special?

Chris Stewart: Well I think it comes down at the clients that we have and thats people coming to the stand we have got greats fans here, lot of energy and you really cant beat the synergy we have in this building, its great place to be the home team.

Kevin McGlue: On and off the ice the expectations year in and year out is to win and to be winner put a winner both on the ice, in the stands and everything involved with this team, how do you try to make that happen?

Chris Stewart: Well I think that was established early Kevin we started off in our first year with that golden mind that you know we said automatically just because we are in our first year doesnt even won a championship you know it took us to our second year to win our first championship but thats really our goal every year, as we want to win a championship we have players that are capable of doing that and we put our effort forth every year with that mind that we want to win a championship.

Kevin McGlue: Give us a quick idea as to what this team at least in theory what you would like to see will look like at here night in and night out?

Chris Stewart: Well I am certainly been into speed and skill, I love that the speed on the ice, but I want to see that aggressiveness involved all we need a big top hockey club and a team is going to make the other team pay the price every single night. We are going to be in aggressive path, we are going to dictate the play, we are going to score a lot of goals.

Interviewer: Eagles president general manager and three times CHL champion head coach Chris Stewart.

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