Rain City Guide

In response to my post highlighting how great the technology behind Trulia is, I received some emails from real estate agents who completely disagreed with me, although only one agent, John Lockwood , took the initiative to responded on the record). Thank you John! I’m going to pick on your comments in [...]

Galen over at shackprices alerted me to a new google maps search by Windermere. I can’t say that I’m surprised to see that Windermere updated their search since their VP of technology told me they would be releasing something soon… None the less, it is always interesting to see what gets produced. My [...]

I’m pretty sure that many real estate agents wouldn’t want to hear this, but the real estate industry has been very effective at protecting their own self-interest at the expense of home buyers and sellers. There are so many useful tools that could be built, but valuable real estate data is hidden behind thick [...]

I just returned from a wonderful vacation in Yosemite to find out that two blocks of Aurora Avenue are proposed to be renamed Troll Avenue North. Such huge news!
We had a wonderful time, and while my family didn’t make it up to the top of Yosemite Falls (so we do not have a [...]

I just ran across the best google map hack yet:
Seattle Bus Monster
and the more I browse the site, the more impressed I am.
Some of the things to notice:

real time bus location information with estimated arrival times!
real time traffic cameras
bus stop information
the ability to search for a bus top and/or route
route markers drawn over [...]

About a week ago, Google made an update to google maps (gmaps) which caused errors to my gHomes MLS Search (built on top of gmaps).
I finally found some time to get around to making updates to my coding so that my MLS search would work. In the process, I’ve streamlined the data conversion process, [...]

I’ve been slowly making some updates to the gHomes site. Today’s improvement was to add a link from the Google minipages to more detailed information.
If you are new to my site, then definitely check out my alpha-version of gHomes … I hope you’ll find it is the best way to search for a new [...]

In my continual quest to give my clients better and more useful real estate information, I’m experimenting with posting the home sale data over Google Maps and I’ve finally got an alpha version ready for limited public consumption. There are no forms to fill out or hoops to jump through, all you have to do [...]