Searching for a new home on the Internet!

Are you starting your search for a new home on the Internet? Do you visit Realtor.com, Trulia.com, Zillow.com? Of these Realtor.com is the most accurate, here you will find all the updated listings. Trulia has a lot of innacurate information, homes that are now in escrow still show up as being active, and Zillow with it's Zestimates can be way off base!

However, to get the most accurate information when searching the internet you need to start your new home search via the internet with a Realtor, such as myself, who has access to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) - you should be able to search through their website, and you can also have them set up a completely customized search based on your own criteria, anything from price, size of yard, location of laundry, how many garage/parking spaces, patio, balcony, pool, just about anything you can think of.

Customized internet home searches can be emailed directly to you as soon as a new home is listed, ir there is a price reduction on one already mailed to you or if one goes into escrow. Or you can have it notify you on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. And it's completely FREE! You can continue to search other sites, but a customized search through a Realtor, will give you up-to-the-minute accurate information without you having to do the hard work yourself!

Start your internet home search here - http://www.janeloveday.com - or contact me directly to set up a customized search for you today!

Jane Loveday
Windermere Real Estate Agent
619-519-1615 Cell
http://www.janeloveday.com
http://www.facebook.com/realestatesandiego

Using Social Media to Sell Real Estate!

There are plenty of social media sites today, more so than back when AOL first hit our screens. Then it was easy to keep track of friends, make new connections and promote your business. Now we have literally hundreds of websites that feed our content, but how does that impact buying or selling houses as a Realtor?

When MySpace first started, I maintained a business page (still have it)and in the first year sold 4 properties to 'friends', kept up with my blog there, useful tidbits and news. That was just one site. Now it's all about Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and more. These days we have to make videos, link our Twitter to Facebook, our blog (this one) to all of the above and many more sites. We have to create a constant presence in order for our name to be recognized and valued as a leader in the latest news, views and ideas in Real Estate. Not many people go door-to-door anymore leaving door hangers, or calendars on our doorsteps, it's all about online presence.

It's challenging, exciting, very educational too. Just posting a new property listing is interesting - sending it not only to Craigslist, or Backpage, but out to Trulia, Realtor.com, Zillow, Hotpads, Enormo, Front Door, Oodle, Vast, GoogleBase .... and so on.

You have to be savvy in order to satisfy your client's needs to market their properties, there's plenty of help to be found as to how to do it, and I wish everyone who is starting to market via the internet GOOD LUCK! It's fun, a lot of work, but worth it in the long term!

Jane LovedayWindermere Real Estate Agent619-519-1615 Cell http://janeloveday.comhttp://www.facebook.com/realestatesandiego