Real Estate 2.0 Terms of Use, Should You Blow Them Off?
REIS Innovations, a subsidiary of the Florida Association of REALTORS®, has produced a very interesting and useful document outlining the terms of use policies of...
Upgrade, what upgrade?
This morning I had a great experience as a software user that confirmed the need for us as software developers to provide comprehensive, repetitive and...
Killer App for Real Estate Agents: Mercedes Benz Search and Send
The Google LatLong blog announces today that certain new Mercedes Benz cars will have the capability of downloading travel routes directly from Google or Yahoo!...
How similar are the music and real estate sales industries?
I was reading an article in the New York Times today about Rick Rubin’s efforts to breath new life into Columbia Records, which is owned...
Blogging Convergence
Today is the day for writing about new blogs, I guess. A few months ago, Greg Kilwein from FBS wrote a post that introduced us...
Titze Fly and Vendor Alley
For those interested in following the musings of two of the hottest players in the real estate software business, check out Vendor Alley and Titze...
104 Posts
At posts 97 and 98, I was reminding myself to remember to shout out my 100th post, and then I forgot until today when I...
Can there be listing aggregation without cooperation?
In response to my post The Future of MLS Is Now, Joshua Harris commented: Michael, I see your point… and ask why does there have...
Very Cool Photo Re-sizing
Athol’s Bad MLS Photo of the Day series may find fewer candidates once this new photo re-sizing technique becomes popular. To make a photo smaller,...
Virtual Staging
I wonder if anyone in the RE.net is yet using something like DesignMyRoom for virtual staging? I haven’t tried it out myself yet, but that...
Is the term MLS dead?
More and more real estate multiple listing services (MLSs) are being re-named “broker exchanges” or “listing exchanges” or something similar. There are several reasons for...
Remarkable Service Doesn’t Have To Be Like A Root Canal
Remarkable service exceeds expectations. More often than not, though, the service provider is in control of your expectations or at least should be. Let me...