Comments on: Real Estate Search is an evil hard problem

By: Osman

Osman — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:20:13 +0000

In all fairness, Ardell is right. The notion that Buyer Agency has "no cost" *is* too simplistic . Of course, a comment box isn't always the best place for further discussion. Here's my post in response with more details.

By: Seattle’s Rain City Real Estate Guide » “Klaatu Verata Niktor”

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:05:44 +0000

[...] “Klaatu Verata Niktor” February 18, 2006 Before we read Osman’s piece on Buyer’s Agency, let’s do a little review. [...]

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 18:06:40 +0000

Yes, I would like a copy, Osman. I tried to loop around the link and got lost Please consider yourself “contacted” as in “tag…you’re it”.

By: Osman

Osman — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:24:12 +0000

There’s a reason most sites don’t enourage this type of fine-grain searching. Usually buyers are getting serious when they are at this level of search and realtors would rather be working one-on-one with them at this point.
From a buyers perspective, if you find a house you like online and then call the listing agent, you also get a much lower standard of representation that if you were working through an experienced buyers agent. As the buyers agent’s commission is nearly always paid by the listing broker, there is no cost and nothing to lose.
I’ve written a piece on buyer’s agency. If you’d like a copy, contact me.

By: GIles

GIles — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 12:15:48 +0000

Ardell…for a sec. there I thought you were messing with my folks from Georgia !!

And call me crazy but cant you just put a %in front of the word in a remarks search with NWMLS?

either way… the search is looking great robbie! keep up the good work.

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 04:29:28 +0000

Hey Robbie, let’s do Dueling Systems. (like dueling banjos in Deliverance).

Give me a word, any word, and we’ll see if my remarks section search in the mls comes up with the same homes as yours

By: Dorkydad

Dorkydad — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 03:14:42 +0000

Now if you could just add FMLS (there are two competing MLS systems in Atlanta–MLS and FMLS) listings from Atlanta! Therein lies the rub: no good site exists which aggregates MLS content nationwide… yet!

By: Galen

Galen — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:18:07 +0000

Nice work Robbie. I look forward to what’s next.

By: Robbie

Robbie — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:53:42 +0000

Thanks for the debugging tip! Should be fixed now.

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:33:35 +0000

Hey Robbie, you might want to look at the code for the next/previous buttons on photo displays for the listing photos using Mozilla. The script is firing a page refresh and reloading the page rather than displaying the next photo. Might need to add a return false to the JS code.