Real Estate Tools
BiggerPockets News by Joshua Dorkin | May 2, 2007Thanks to Jeff Takle, BiggerPockets is now offering many more items on its Free Real Estate Forms page, a pretty substantial catalog of Landlord forms, contracts, and other documents. We’re looking to increase the number of documents that we offer to our users. If you have any forms that you’d like to provide to our [...]
Commentary by Joshua Dorkin | February 27, 2007I reject more sponsored reviews then I accept, but thought that I’d give it a whirl today in reviewing Automated Homefinder. Many of the companies that contact us through ReviewMe are just not up to par, and it seems like these guys might just be worth exploring. Focused on Colorado real estate, Automated Homefinder does [...]
Commentary by Joshua Dorkin | December 11, 2006Last time we hosted a carnival, it stirred up a bit of controversy. Today, we’re announing the winners of a different Carnival – The Carnival of Real Estate Investing 4th Edition. There were many good submissions that investors and agents will find helpful – here are the best of the best: For Real Estate Investors [...]
BiggerPockets News by Joshua Dorkin | November 30, 2006Since we announced the launch of our Real Estate Wiki several days ago, we’ve had quite a few new contributions. I wanted to thank everyone for helping out and I hope that we can continue to build the best and most comprehensive user-generated real estate resource online. If you’ve got anything to add to any [...]
BiggerPockets News by Joshua Dorkin | November 26, 2006We’ve Just Launched the First TRUE Real Estate Wiki I’m excited to share with everyone the launch of our Real Estate Wiki – http://wiki.biggerpockets.com ! In an effort to continue to bring helpful tools and resources to the real estate community, we thought that a wiki devoted wholy to real estate would be a logical [...]
Cool Stuff by Joshua Dorkin | October 9, 2006I got an email this weekend about a great little tool that I wanted to share with everyone. Rentometer Just enter a property address, number of units in the building, and the current monthly rent, and Rentometer will show you where your price stands compared to others in the area. In addition, this Google mashup [...]
Cool Stuff by Joshua Dorkin | October 3, 2006Pittsburgh Homes Daily put together a huge list of the 500 real estate blogs to watch. There are some great blogs on the list, most notably yours truly! It must have taken some time to compile . . . nice work!
Real Estate Resources by Joshua Dorkin | September 20, 2006Starting today, Zillow is allowing its users to get their say in what homes are worth by allowing them to enter their own price estimates alongside the site’s proprietary Zestimates. Apparently the move was in response to feedback from the users of the site. I’ve heard much debate about the accuracy of the Zestimates, both [...]
Blogs by Joshua Dorkin | September 16, 2006Teresa Boardman, creator of the St. Paul Real Estate Blog, recently commented on our post Using Blogs to Build Your Real Estate Related Business, saying how she loves what her blog has done for her business. There is a reason that she is finding success blogging . . . she’s got a fantastic blog. Her [...]
Blogs by Joshua Dorkin | September 11, 2006I’m not sure how I originally heard about the Realivent site, but there was something tempting about a site that “is looking for beta testers.” A few weeks ago I filled out their tester sign-up form, and on Saturday, was admitted into their Beta program. After filling out a simple registration form, I was able [...]
Landlord Tenant by Joshua Dorkin | September 9, 2006Results for Realtors posted yesterday about a new Free site that helps you to post your classified listings to multiple sites, called Postlets. This site lets you post your property for sale or for rent at backpage, craigslist, edgeio, Google Base, HotPads, LiveDeal, Oodle, Propsmart, and Vast, and the best part is that you only [...]
Real Estate Resources by Joshua Dorkin | September 2, 20065/26/10 Update: It appears that RentYield is no longer a viable website. I can’t speculate why, but if you’re interested in learning about other online property management platforms, check the link you just read past. “An online base rental property management software that works like a desktop software.
Real Estate Tips by Joshua Dorkin | August 29, 2006HouseValues announced the launch of a new podcast today, known as the “Daily Motivator”. This 2-3 minute audio piece will be designed to help real estate professionals by producing segments including: motivational info, success tips and stories, marketing help, etc. According to the press release, examples of tips include: – How One Agent Turned $1.50 [...]
Real Estate Resources by Joshua Dorkin | August 25, 2006Shaun gives us another update about his dealings with Prosper.com, and expresses his disappointment with the lending website. I’ve noticed now that they have added a new feature called “Community Payment” which I’m not sure I like. The concept is simple: if a member of a group is behind on payments, other group members can [...]
Blogs by Joshua Dorkin | August 25, 2006Update 6/15/10: We fixed a few links and removed a few blogs from the list as well. It is sad to see more and more of the original top blogs on this list removed, but that is how things go. We never put together an updated top real estate blog list since the original was [...]
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by Joshua Dorkin | February 27, 2007I reject more sponsored reviews then I accept, but thought that I’d give it a whirl today in reviewing Automated Homefinder. Many of the companies that contact us through ReviewMe are just not up to par, and it seems like these guys might just be worth exploring. Focused on Colorado real estate, Automated Homefinder does [...]