Altos Research Real Estate Insights hosts the 48th Carnival of Real Estate and presents top posts by category.

Top honors in Real Estate Technology are given to Jim Cronin at the Real Estate Tomato for his post ‘Should MLS Brokers Be Allowed To Blog About Other MLS Broker’s Listings?’.

For Real Estate Professionals Greg Swann of BloodhoundBlog explains that ‘Real estate liscensing laws are a criminal conspiracy agains the consumer created by and for the benefit of a cartel’ (What a mouthful!) and Kimberly Wester of Active Rain asks ‘Agents: Can you ‘name’ you listings? Your buyers can. . . and do!’.

For the Real Estate Consumer Brian Brady of World Wide Wealth Planners tells it like it is in ‘Pay Cash & Refinance Later? BAD Advice’ and at Larry’s Take on the Cocoa Beach Real Estate Market, Larry warns against ‘False Realities’.

Other great posts await your read as well.

Real Estate Technology

RE Agent in Connecticut is home to this week’s Carnival of Real Estate.

Check out the following top entries and then head on over to read the rest:

The Real Estate TrendMill presents ‘Office Available For Lease - 267 days and counting’

The Digerati Life hosts ‘4 Ways to Invest In Real Estate That We’d Actually Consider Doing’

Real Estate Tomato presents ‘Why Real Estate Blogging Is Like Golf’

and

World Wide Wealth Planners hosts ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad: The Irony of the Message’

We’re seeing a very colorful Carnival of Real Estate this week, hosted at Home Staging, Rants & Ravings.

Each post was given an award based upon the colors of the rainbow (R-O-Y-G-B-V) and what each color signifies. Craig Schiller does a great job describing the attributes of each color so I won’t attempt to duplicate that here. I’ll simply post the honorees below. Although I have to ask, Craig, what about indigo?

Red: ‘Bay Area Price Reductions Heat Map’ posted from Altos Research Real Estate Insights

Orange: ‘Realtors Should Stop Selling Houses’ from BloodhoundBlog

Yellow: ‘A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words’ from vFlyer Blog

Green: ‘Book Report: Be Unreasonable’ from Mike’s Corner - Web 2.0 For Real Estate Pros

Blue: ‘”Pro Pro Per Pla” - A Cautious Buyer’s Motto, and It’s not Latin!’ from RenoRealEstateVoice

Violet: ‘The Party is Over’ from Chattanooga Real Estate Blog

Periodically I run across companies that I think are worth a mention, and Flippingpad is one of them.

When I was in middle school a very smart woman said something to me that I’ve never quite shaken from my curiosity: if you want to make bucks it’s in real estate investments.
This began my grand scheme toward achieving world domination: I would build and flip until I had enough cash to buy out an ad agency and reshape its direction. Yes ambitious, seriously naïve, but nonetheless I was one focused girl.

Unfortunately, I was never quite able to find that partner in crime. And while I have given up the world-domination-through-real-estate-scheme, I’m still on the search for people to co-invest, research and make my big bucks with. Admittedly they’ve been hard to find given my social network and I can’t imagine I’m alone.

Well, it seems that Flippingpad agrees with me. It has built a platform to help people like me find partners in crime, get feedback from knowledgeable sources about opportunities of interest, and very possibly find some great co-investors!

Certainly worth checking out!

One quick shout out — Patrick, one of Flippingpad’s founders, has been a really active member of the Trulia Voices community!

The 45th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is hosted at the Christian Real Estate Network. Super Hero status was bestowed upon the four top entries:

• ‘What is a short sale?’ posted on John Barker’s Mortgage Blog
• ‘Shoot — it’s for the Web’ by Ann Brenoff of the L.A. Times.
• ‘Dancing on bridges: Apprehending great real estate webloggers’ from BloodhoundBlog.

and

• ‘First Redfin, Now an Arizona FSBO Site’ from Jonathan Dalton’s Phoenix Area Real Estate Blog,

Head on over to the Christian Real Estate Network to see what the judges had to say about these posts and be sure to check out the entries who received Honerable Mentions as well.