Real Estate Groups Getting Lots of Attention

Since the launch of our groups feature, our members have flocked to create or join groups meeting their interests. I thought I’d remind everyone of groups today because we just had one (the Private Money Group) pass the 100 member mark for the first time!

Who Would Benefit From Real Estate Groups?

A sampling of people who would find groups helpful include:

• Investors who want to network locally might join or create a group for investors in their city.
• Real Estate Agents may want to set up or join referral groups to share business.
• Real Estate Clubs may want to set up a group to draw new traffic to their group.
• Landlords, wholesalers, or people of some other real estate specialty may want to create or join a group designed for people sharing the same interest.

Real Estate Group Features Include:

• Group members have their own private forum
• Group founders (administrators) and moderators (set by the admin) can post news or announcements for the group, where members are notified by email and kept in the loop (you can shut your notifications off in your settings tab of the Dashboard).
• Group members can invite any of their colleagues to the group, or they can invite people who are not yet members of BiggerPockets with the email invite function. Once someone joins the site through this method, they automatically are registered as a member of your group.
• Groups allow people to essentially create mini communities within the overall BiggerPockets community.
• Group members can subscribe to discussions and be notified of new posts.
• Coming soon - group members will be able to get periodic notifications of new topics in their groups.

Real Estate Group Examples:

Here are a few examples of groups on the site - 64 Total Groups as of 9/11/08:
Out of State Investors, Lenders Place, Personal REO Investing, Bulk REO Group, Pennsylvania Investors, Phoenix, Arizona Investors, Twitter Addicts For Real Estate, etc.

What Are You Waiting For?
Join or create a group today!

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It has been a long time coming . . .

We just launched a MAJOR FACELIFT to BiggerPockets!

For years, people have been using our site to do everything from finding tools and resources, to discussing real estate, to making deals, to selling property, etc. We’ve just made it easier to do several of these things.

Here are a few of the highlights:

• Created a New BiggerPockets Front Page — some of the great things you’ll find on the new front page of BiggerPockets.com include highlighted property listings, random member profiles, assorted public gallery photos, tags from our property listings, the latest forum and blog posts, and more!
  

• Re-launched our Property Directory to make it “2.0″ — it is now fully integrated into the social profiles of our members, and is easy to use and interactive! Members can save a property as a favorite, email it to their colleagues, subscribe to our main listing RSS feed, or customize their own feeds for individual State or even more specific listings, and much more!
  

  Of course, adding a listing is free and easy. Members (agents, investors, FSBOs, etc) can add investment properties, land, a primary residence, commercial properties, or even make a deal post on the property directory by going to the property section of their Dashboard or adding directly through the Property Directory page. Of course the listings are integrated with mapping, and are connected directly to the listing poster’s profile.

• Established a Property Notification “Matching” System — members can select criteria that interests them, and once a listing is added to the site that matches that set of criteria, the user will be notified in their Dashboard — if they elect to do so, they will also be sent an email letting them know that a match to their requirements has been made. The user can then remove individual notifications if they are no longer interested in seeing them, and disable or deactivate all notifications.
  

• Built a Community Gallery Page – members who elect to share photos by creating a public gallery will see their property photos in our gallery page.
  

• Cleaned up several areas of the site, and made many other changes to improve the user experience.

Stop by and see how BiggerPockets has stepped up the game!

Next up . . . . stay tuned! (did you really think we’d share all of our secrets?)

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