I don’t participate too much in forums anymore, but the one I have been visiting and participating in most frequently, lately, is Real Estate Webmasters. Over the last few days, a really interesting thread developed concerning Relo-Experts.com and the use of the term relo, which is trademarked by Reliance Relocation Services.

I, for one, was surprised to find out that the word relo is trademarked, since it’s so widely used as a generic term. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised, though, because I knew that the term REALTOR® is trademarked.

We all know that the housing market has it ups and downs. Robert J. Shiller, an economic professor at Yale, created a graph of U.S. housing prices from 1890 to 2006:

(Click on image to enlarge)

Looks like a roller coaster ride, doesn’t it? Well, Richard Hodge at SpeculativeBubble.com took the data and plotted it on Roller Coaster Tycoon 3… which resulted in this:

Via AP and Chicago Tribune:

Over the past couple of months, it seems like the resounding topic regarding real estate has been the progressive decline of home sales.

There is an interesting thread going on at the Real Estate Webmasters forum titled Directory Linking…