We often talk about the latest and greatest real estate technology tools, but rarely about where our social sphere, buyers, sellers, prospects are at in terms of technology. My sense is that a lot of where they’re at is based on their age.

How do you provide real estate disclosures to buyers and their agents? For some, they can be uploaded to the MLS for agents to download. But there are many people still printing out mountains of thick paper stacks. I wanted an easier way for those who don’t have the MLS option (for example when buyers at an open house request them), so I created Full Disclosure as a side project.

You already know that fresh content and useful data are two of the keys to a successful real estate website. Luckily, a new breed of online companies has popped up to help provide you with the charts and data your visitors want, updated automatically.

How do you spot a short sale expert? By how badly they reflexively cringe every time you mention the words “short sale”. If you’re new, here’s the first in a series of short sales training tutorials.

Google Voice gives you one main phone number that rings all your phones, saves your voicemail online, and transcribes your voicemail to text. Basically, it makes your voicemail as easy to check and track as your email. It also has a few other cool features, such as spying on messages while they’re being left, and the ability to easily make cheap international calls.

If you’re like many Realtors, your interaction with the NAR mothership probably consists of you sending them money, and them sending you political alerts. But lately the National Association of Realtors has really stepped up to help strapped real estate agents by offering many useful NAR tools for free.

If you’re not tracking and measure your real estate website’s traffic, then you’re not really able to improve the quality or quantity of visitors coming to your site. Like so many things, the 80/20 rule applies: It’s likely that 20% of your efforts are creating 80% of your traffic. So how do you figure out [...]

It’s that time again… time for another top ten list! Here are ten real estate tools I can’t live without, based mostly off their incredible usefullness (and also sheer awesomeness as in the case with Animoto). In no particular order, the top ten are…

Yesterday Apple released their long awaited iPad, and I’ll admit that my response time that morning was noticeably slower as I read every update. Now that it’s out, the question arises: is this a nice to have or a must have for the active real estate agent?

Are your clients first time home buyers? If so, make sure they aware of the $8,000 First Time Buyer Home Tax Credit, which was put in to effect by President Obama as part of the Economic Stimulus Package. Even better than letting your current clients know, though, is using the tax credit in your real [...]