Property ManagementRealty Times Editor Featured on CNN
Blanche Evans, publisher of Agent
News and editor of Realty Times
was featured on CNN"s new program about online commerce, CNNdotCom. The segment about home buying on the Internet ran Saturday, July 29th at 12:30 Eastern time, and Sunday, July 30th
at 11:30 Eastern time.
Correspondent Mary Kathleen Flynn and Evans shopped for homes online using Realtor.com and loans using Homeadvisor.com. Evans advised viewers to check their credit and work with a lender to get approved for a loan before shopping for homes. She also warned viewers against applying for a loan at multiple sites which can inadvertantly raise credit scores, but to use the Internet to shop for and to compare rates before choosing a lender.
An advocate for Internet consumers and real estate professionals, Evans is
the author of the first book about home buying and selling using the Internet,
Homesurfing.net: The Insider"s Guide
to Buying and Selling Your Home Using the Internet, Dearborn. She has just
completed a second book for real estate agents, The Hottest e-Careers in Real
Estate, Dearborn, to be published in October 2000, and is co-authoring a third
book with Michael Russer, a.k.a. Mr.
Internet, which will be available online in the fall.
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complete story on CNN.