RePurposedApps – member recommended apps for your smart phone!

If you are a REALTOR® then you are entitled to make use of the many member benefits of membership. Some of these benefits come from your local Association, some from the Sate Association and some from the National association itself. One NAR benefit that I recently leaned about is http://www.repurposedapps.com a website that features apps…

At last! The perfect answer to the “what should I buy?” question!

I am often asked “what ______ should I buy?” (Fill in the blank!) While I appreciate the vote of confidence that the person asking the question has in my opinions, it does put me on the spot. Many times I haven’t been keeping up with the gear i’m being asked about and because of that…

iPad app to create the perfect living space

I ran across a cool iPad app the other day and the more I work with it the more I like it. This could be the perfect app to tell your clients about because it will let them visualize, on an iPad, what their living space could look like, or even better, I think it…

Test your real estate sales price knowledge – San Francisco style!

If you are fortunate enough to own an iPhone then you know that the App Store has thousands upon thousands of games that you can load onto your i device.  Some are free and some are not.  Some are educational but most are just a way to pass some time. Today I’d like to tell…

Know more about your area with a few taps

One of the ways that we, as real estate professionals, can distinguish ourselves from the thousands of others in our market are is by having great knowledge of our area. For us, knowing about housing prices, what’s available and what has sold is easily accomplished through the MLS.  Sad to say, it’s also available to…

Got passwords?

How many passwords are you juggling these days?  How many different logins?  What about the question of which login and password did you use with which website?   I often wonder if I am the only person going slowly nuts trying to juggle all of this and still be effective at what I do, and…

3 Free and Easy Alternatives to virtual tours!

Virtual property tours are a great way to market listings because they give an interested person a way to “see” the home without actually having to be there.  Many home buyers like to view these tours because it saves them time by helping to eliminate homes that don’t fit their needs.  The tours also help…

Put an end to paper junk mail…with your smartphone!

There are any number of good ways to reduce unwanted junk mail from our email inboxes. Most of which work very well. But, I have never found a really good and easy way to reduce the amount of paper junk mail that I get at home. Recently I ran across a new company, PaperKarma, that…

Instacorder – Voice to email at the touch of a button!

Back in 2006 I discovered a really cool service called Jott.  What made Jott cool was the fact that I could call Jott and dictate a message that Jott would then transcribe into text and then email to me.  By programming The Jott number into my OnStar calling system in my car I was able…

Turn your smartphone into a pocket translator for free!

If you have an iPhone or an Android phone, you are probably looking for new and cool things to do with your phone.  Although I’ve reviewed and recommended many apps on this blog over the years (to find them run this Google Search: https://www.google.com/search?q=realtytechbytes.com+apps)I haven’t run across anything as useful and cool as I am…