Here’s an awful picture I took of some Manhattan parking spaces when i was at Inman Connect in January.

If I recall correctly, these little gems would set you back $1,400 a month.

In this week’s Video of the Week, my city friend Rachel Natalie Klein from IntoTheBox.TV brings us a little more on parking in Manhattan….

So stop yer crying about finding parking in downtown Phoenix…

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Apparently real estate in Britain isn’t a whole lot different than real estate here…

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ActiveRain, a network of 80,000 some odd real estate professionals had a video contest. I spend almost no time there any more, so I’m not sure what the rules and guidelines were, nor how many entries there were, but here is the winner — from Mike Lefebvre with Century 21 Commonwealth in Massachusetts.

 Well done Mike!

Mike’s got an interesting blog here, which includes a recent letter from the NAR informing him his domain name “AppraiserRealtor.com” is a trademark violation.

Unfortunately the blog doesn’t allow comments (a mistake Mike, in my opinion), so I’ll answer his question here (note, Mike is not a Realtor):

I replied to the NAR asking if I was indeed a member of your cult association, would I be able to use the term REALTOR (R) in my domain names, screen names, etc?…Waiting for a response.

The answer Mike is no. Not even paying members are allowed to use the term “Realtor” in a domain name except in very limited circumstances. You could, for example, use “MikeLefebvreRealtor.com”, but “AppraiserRealtor” isn’t going to fly, dues payer or not.

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I thought this idea was clever: 

And I thought this sucked (extra credit to anyone that can sit through the entire 8.5 minutes):

We’ve frequently toyed with the idea of video listings. I’m sure they are in our future, I just don’t know in what form (clearly video #2 is out).

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