Real Estate Idea

 

I just joined the forum - anyone thought about how POI could be applied in Real estate . My wife and I are considering a move to kentucky from California. Wouldn't it be slick if I could load a list of houses for sale in an area? I could do drive bys views of all the houses for sale.

Real Estate use

wriegel wrote:

I just joined the forum - anyone thought about how POI could be applied in Real estate . My wife and I are considering a move to kentucky from California. Wouldn't it be slick if I could load a list of houses for sale in an area? I could do drive bys views of all the houses for sale.

There are programs out there that will actually help you load from the MLS listings. I can't for the life of me remember the name of the program, but the last realtor I used had it. Great program from what I could see.

Realtors are using GPS more and more, as are other businesses. It is perfect for sales people, and what is a Realtor other than a sales person?

real estate idea

Thanks for the response - I figured that I wouldn't be the first to think of that idea.

Gocoding

Some MLS systems geocode lat-long. Caution - geocoding is far from accurate, especially for land. Although coordinates were provided, MLS was not that cooperative in correcting the data on their site.

Vendors are available to support IDX data exchange requirements, and a little .net programming will provide the fields required from the data exchange.

The tools for transferring listings to a PDA are currently Palm OS based, but Windows mobile systems are in development, but these only address PDA units for now.

There was a great article in a recent PC Magazine for customizing/adding Outlook fields, and data exporting to .csv format is practical. There is a link on this site for extracting Outlook data to GPSr as well.

I was a realtor for 4 years

I was a realtor for 4 years and I would have loved to have had this tool in my toolbox during my career.

Miss Poi

Great idea

I am still a Realtor and would love to have any links/leads to be able to use GPS here in Orlando.

Name

How can I contact your last Realtor?
Thank you