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Six months after the nation’s largest banks discovered errors in their foreclosure practices, the home-repossession process continues to lag.

The number of South Florida foreclosure filings in March dropped 68.6 percent compared to the same month last year, according to data released Wednesday by foreclosure research firm RealtyTrac.

In Miami-Dade County, there were 2,749 foreclosures in March, down 70.2 percent from March 2010, when there were 9,224 filings. In Broward County, there were 2,199 foreclosures in March, down 65.3 percent from 6,341 in March 2010. Rather than a sign of an improving market, the drop in foreclosures stems from banks’ decisions to temporarily slow or stop taking back homes, as they face accusations of “robo-signing” and forging documents.

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You may have already seen Facebook Comments on some blogs here and there 50,000 websites according to a post on the Facebook Developer Blog today.

Make that 50,001…

Utilizing the , some handy instructions from Jimmy Mackin at TheMLSApp.com, and some minor tinkering mixed in with minor swearing, Facebook Comments are now live on Phoenix Real Estate Guy.

Just scroll down to the bottom of this post and you’ll be able to comment in a Facebook sort of way. For the time being, both the Facebook Comments and the native WordPress commenting will both be available. How long is “the time being”? I have no idea. There a

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Yesterday Inman News posted an article, Real estates unfranchise: LeadingRE, an “Executive Profile” with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World (LeadingRE) President and CEO Pam O’Connor. (Unfortunately, the article is now behind Inman’s pay wall. Don’t get me started on that practice…).

What is LeadingRE? From the Inman article:

LeadingRE represents 600 local and regional real estate firms with a combined total of 5,000 offices and 150,000 sales associates worldwide. The networks participants produced nearly $250 billion in home sales in 2009, according to its website. The network

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For those who attended Mike Watson’s seminars on investing in real estate over a four-year period beginning in late 2004, the Mapleton man was a contradictory mixture of a spell-binding, inspirational speaker and a salesman of pure hokum.

His time on stage at seminars around the country ran from messianic zeal to mockery, to bullying, to rages and to tears.

Here was a man who, after all, was selling rebundled property-investment wisdom, along with a pack of lies, according to lawsuits and interviews with people who paid him thousands of dollars to learn the secrets of real estate investing.

Investors poured in $27.5 million on assurances from Watson that he had never lost money on a deal. T

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Article Author: Jason Hanson

Jason has written 147 articles for us. Visit Jason’s Website: http://www.PrimoCoach.com

Jason R. Hanson is the founder of National Real Estate Investor Month and the author of “How to Build a Real Estate Empire”. Jason specializes in purchasing properties “subject-to” and has purchased millions of dollars worth of property using none of his own cash or credit.