Meaning, will you be marketing my property not just in the Charlottesville are MLS (to other Realtors) and on the local Realtors’ Association site, as well as Realtor.com but – on every other Realtors’ site who has an IDX feed ( such as the one found here )- therefore substantially increasing traffic and exposure to my property? … There’s a lot happening the the acronym world about which we need to learn (NAR/DOJ/VOW/MLS/IDX/etc)
Browsing Category Technology
As Promised – A New Way to Search For Homes in Charlottesville
After watching my friends Jay in Phoenix and Kris in San Diego do such wonderful things with their MLS search tools, I’m finally able to announce what I believe to be the single best tool to search for homes in the Charlottesville, Virginia area* – Since founding RealCentralVA in 2005, I have never put a “Search for Homes” thing on my blog because none of the ones available had what I wanted; the technology is finally here (and it’s groundbreaking in the real estate community, but not necessarily the technology community) 🙂 –
– Get alerts sent to you via Email or RSS – Search by multiple School District – eventually you should be able to search by more than one school district – Search by Price Drops – ex: 10% in the past 10 days – and indication an property may finally be priced right – Search by Foreclosure/Pre-Foreclosure status (still testing this one for its validity) – Save your searches!
Realtors – Be Careful Whom you Follow On Twitter
Not everyone wants to be followed. Sometimes a little bit of discretion is called for. 
I’m @JimDuncan if you’re curious.
How Quickly do Social Media Directors Respond?
Inman – Same Day Trulia – Same Day Zillow – Same Day It is interesting that Century 21 ‘s response was provided by an agent, Sotheby’s may not have been aware of Roost’s ad, and I’d bet that Google doesn’t care to respond. For consumers in the Charlottesville area, Roost is a search front end that pulls listing information from the MLS; for the Charlottesville area, they have 29 listings; Waynesboro has one listing – far less than the local MLS .
How Did Saul get the NAR’s Notes?
Much of his paper sounds like he read summaries of the NAR’s MLS PAG that lasted about 18 months, specifically his “takeaway terms.” Authoritative and trusted source Mission MLS 5.0 Online communities Parcel based Property Wiki Single Point of Entry Single Sign-On Social Networking Strong (two party) Authentication Syndication Vision Web 2.0 I’m still working through what I think about his proposal, but I remain wary of the NAR attempting anything this important and/or of this scale.
Social Media Explained and Expanded
| View | Upload your own For example – I can be contacted here in a variety of ways; below are a couple of the many. (the closest thing to a resume I have to offer) 
…A few of the topics we plan to discuss are – -owners being upside-down when trying sell their house -being uncomfortable buying in these times, even though it may be the best time around -how much should a seller lower the sales price?
A thought on the current Realtor.com/AVM debate
Realtor.com has the opportunity to leverage their tenuous data advantage and position themselves ahead of the competition. Their current tactic of emulating rather than differentiating is not a positive sign.