Archive for March, 2006
Thursday, March 30th, 2006
If you thought “Zestimates” were off, try RealEstateABC.com’s Value Tools
Announced with lots of fanfare on Inman today about New home-valuation site rivals Zillow. Just went to check it out and it valued my home at $618,000 compared to Zillow’s Zestimate of $1.12 Million. Hmm..just a slight margin of difference there. Inman’s blog site covers the ABC Value tool as “Zillow is old news“.
Personaly, while […]
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Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
Tech tools just for realtors - PowerPoint creation script for CMA/Buyer tour, etc
I always hate spending time doing the copy+paste for a task that can be automated. So I wrote a VBScript that will read a data download from the MLS system and create my formated PowerPoint file, including the pictures. Used to take me 20+ minutes to do this manually, now it takes less than 5 […]
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Sunday, March 26th, 2006
Jump
Hanging out at Dock Dogs at Marymoor Park in 2004
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Friday, March 17th, 2006
Dupre + Scott’s latest report on multi-family housing
Operating expenses and capital investment continue to climb while rents rose just 1%. On the plus side, vacancies and rent concessions have dropped. Average purchase price per-unit for 5+ unit buildings rose to $95,755 for the tri-county area. If your thinking of investing in multi-family, Dupre + Scott’s “The Apartment Advisor” and some of thier […]
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Thursday, March 16th, 2006
Follow up to MIT Forum - the future of real estate technology
One of the challenges of being a Realtor is that your personal plans are often waylaid by the needs of your client. Case in point — I was really looking forward to attending last nights MIT Forum about the future of real estate technology, but my evening was prioritized by the needs of a client. […]
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
Just nosin around the beach…
It was a stormy day so Buster decided to play in the waves..
