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Commercial Real Estate Listing Tools, News & Discussions. Whatever your involvement or interest in commercial real estate, we’ve strived to compile the most valuable resources to help you and your business. Find commercial property listing sites, news, and other relevant resources below. If you’re already in the business or are just looking for the tools to help you get by, this directory should come in handy.

Know of a good commercial resource: Suggest a site Commercial Real Estate Forums Commercial Real Estate News Commercial Data Providers ProspectNow – online commercial real estate database of six million building owners, including phone numbers, mailing addresses, building details and 30 million tenants. Commercial Real Estate Investment Listing Resources Commercial Space for Lease Rofo – Commercial real estate offics, retail, and wholesale space listings Commercial Real Estate Organizations and Institutes.

Email Software Packages & Pricing | Sendgrid. Pricing for AppFolio's Property Management Software | AppFolio.com. Joshparolin. Sharky. 36 High-Quality Flat Design Resources. SketchUp | 3D for Everyone. Payment processing for landlords, property owners and managers | Dwolla. Dwolla Discover new merchants in our Storefront. The ideal way to collect rent. Get paid on time Your tenants can set up recurring payments so they don’t miss a due date. You can also send your tenants an automated “money request” each month. Sign up and start moving money. Learn more Landlords, real estate companies, property owners, and property managers can contact support@dwolla.com to learn more about collecting payments with Dwolla.

Helpful tools Keep more of your money. Sign up for Dwolla Financial institutions play an important role in the Dwolla network. Dwolla, Inc. is an agent of Veridian Credit Union and all funds associated with your account in the Dwolla network are held in a pooled account at Veridian Credit Union. Landlord Toolbox provides simple and affordable property management software. If you’re a landlord that uses property management software, you know that most of your options are not only expensive and complicated, but built to manage hundreds or thousands of properties.

On top of that, if you have a maintenance issue, the property management company can pick just about any service provider without regard to quality, price, or customer service and then stick you with the bill. These are the kinds of problems that inspired Erick Wilson and Travis Cassell to launch Landlord Toolbox. Landlord Toolbox provides property managers with a low-cost way to collect rent and deal with service technicians.

Rent collection is safe and simple and with Dwolla, and easy for the landlord and the tenant to get set up and exchanging money without a third, middle party making a big profit. I was lucky enough to speak with Erick and Travis to learn more about the story and inspiration behind Landlord Toolbox. What was the inspiration behind the creation of Landlord Toolbox? 1. 2. Best IDX Providers in 2013. Today's real estate market is all about being visible online. Fully, 88% of home buyers use the internet as a valuable information source, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Online home shopping has changed the way that real estate agents do business, and this trend will only continue into the foreseeable future. If you're new to the real estate game and you don't yet have a website, creating one from scratch can be an especially daunting task. This article is intended to help provide some insight into the different IDX providers out there and hopefully allow you to make an educated decision on which one is right for you. An IDX, short for internet data exchange, is a service that will display active home listings from the MLS on any website. So, rather than having only your own listings, your website can display thousands of homes for sale from every agent in your area.

What's the catch? IDX Provider Pricing Table(all prices are yearly) 1. 2. Diverse Solutions 3. 4. WordPress Real Estate Website Design Portfolio, Semi-Custom - IDXCentral. Web Design Product Comparison. Top 10 Wordpress Plugins to Increase Social Engagement and Build Community. 417shares019411563045×417shares So you have invested thousands of dollars on what you hoped to be a killer website and/or blog. Yet something is still missing. You are still lacking social engagement. You may be creating the right content but you are making it too difficult for people to share it with their friends and community. Visitors to your site may want to engage with you on other social networks and become part of your community. The problem is they can’t do such if they are not invited. You can’t be too shy in inviting them to join your other platforms.

We get many calls from small to enterprise corporate organizations asking us “please help make our site and online presence more social and get more customers.” There is no easy answer to do such overnight, and no plug-in is going to solve your online marketing problems. Below are 10 of my favorite WordPress plugins to increase engagement. Please feel free to add any I missed that you know and love in the comment section below. 1. 10 Best Free Floating Social Media Plugin for WordPress. Advertisement If you are looking for some great ways to increase your blog’s traffic, having social media icons might be the best way for you.

Almost every blog that we see nowadays have different social media icons and also allow users to share the content on their social media profiles. Now, if you are thinking that adding social media icons might be a difficult task, let me tell you that you are wrong. Good news is that there are a lot of good and official WordPress plugins, which will help you in adding social media icons and a lot more. Today, I will be sharing 10 best Free Floating Social Media Plugin for WordPress with all of you and I am sure these will prove to be really beneficial. Floating Social Bar Floating social bar focuses on quality instead of quantity. Digg Digg Digg Digg by Buffer is a great plug-in because it is considered to be an all-rounder. Wp-Socializer Po.St Sharexy Floating Social Media Links Want to add a simple floating frame to your blog? Floating Social Media Icon.

Bell 92039 1 Universal Truck Trunk Dual Cargo Luggage Travel Bags All Weather. Mail merge using an Excel spreadsheet. When you run a mail merge, Word pulls names, addresses, and other information directly from your Excel spreadsheet into the email messages, labels, envelopes, or documents you’re creating. The merge runs more smoothly if all the information you want to include is ready—so, the first step is to make sure: The columns in your spreadsheet match the fields you want to use in your merge. For example, to address readers by their first name, make sure you have separate columns for first and last names. If you want to sort by city, be sure you have a separate City column. All the data you want to merge is in the spreadsheet.

If you want to add more names or other information, it’s best to make those changes now—before you start the merge. Number formatting won’t change. If your spreadsheet includes dates, times, currency values, or postal codes that begin or end in 0, see Format mail merge numbers, dates, and other values. When the data’s ready, start the mail merge In Word, open a new document. Print labels by using Excel data in a Word mail merge.

Important notice for users of Office 2003 To continue receiving security updates for Office, make sure you're running Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3). The support for Office 2003 ends April 8, 2014. If you’re running Office 2003 after support ends, to receive all important security updates for Office, you need to upgrade to a later version such as Office 365 or Office 2013. For more information, see Support is ending for Office 2003. By creating a mail merge in Word, and then linking to a list in Excel, you can turn worksheet data such as the addresses of your customers into printable mailing labels. In Microsoft Excel, set up the data to use in the mail merge.

How? Make sure the data is in list (list: A series of rows that contains related data or a series of rows that you designate to function as a datasheet by using the command.) format: each column has a label in the first row and contains similar facts, and there are no blank rows or columns within the list. Select the entire list. Top 10 Real Estate Applications for the Apple iPhone and iPad. The iPad has been out for awhile and like every other earthling, I am drooling over the possibilities of the next generation of iPad and hang on every rumor involving the next iPhone.

Besides being a gateway drug to buy all things Apple, my iPad and iPhone have freed me greatly from my PC (sorry, I mean Mac Pro) and made my Windows notebook computer a very expensive paperweight. The new iPads and iPhones were made for road warriors of all types, but especially for real estate agents. The Apps Store is filled with lots of great real estate apps however only a few rise to the top as my favorite real estate applications. These are the must-have apps for those who crave the best real estate agent tech toys.

The Top 10 must have iPhone and iPad Apps for Real Estate Agents and Realtors 10. Sure, Zillows app, Trulia’s app and Realtor.com’s apps pretty much do the same thing and since everyone knows what those apps do, I won’t go into details. 10. 10. 9. 8. 7. I believe the name says it all. 6. The Best Mobile Apps for Real Estate Agents On The Go. A few weeks ago, several of us traveled to Atlanta to attend RETSO, a real estate conference that brings real estate's brightest minds and innovative technology companies together. This year's theme focused on becoming a "doer. " One of the sessions we attended was Road Warrior - Taking Your Business Mobile hosted by Shannon King. This session provided some great insight into tools you can start using TODAY that will not only aid your real estate career, but also free up your time so that you can become more of a "doer".

If you're a Realtor, you know what it's like to be on the go. Maximizing Voicemail Have you ever needed to get in touch with a client with only 3 minutes before your next appointment and wished you could just leave them a message? And what about those tempting voicemails that you'd love to listen to but the client you're with might find it rude if you step away? Safety First It can be tempting to try and work while driving but it's critical to keep your safety in mind. The Best Mobile Apps for Real Estate Agents On The Go. Secrets Of Top Selling Agents Blog. Agent2Agent: Best Apps for Real Estate Agents? - Trulia Voices. Top 10 Tools and Apps for Realtors in 2013. Open Home Pro - Collect leads using your iPad and creating the best listing pages for real estate agents. The Best Apps for Real Estate Agents - FastRealEstateMarketing.com.

Top Ten Essential Tools for Real Estate Agents. Real Estate Technology - Geek Estate Blog. RE Technology Portal - Home. RE Tech World. | HousingWire. Real Estate tech company rocks the boat. [Update 1: Clarifies esign tech available to CAR members.] Innovation in the form of new technology is making its way into the real estate industry. In fact, take a look at HousingWire’s top 50 real estate tech solutions to see an example of what technology is doing in the space. As a Realtor, this technology can be beneficial to connecting with customers and selling homes. However, some organizations, such as the California Association of Realtors, say this new technology isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be.

In fact, in April, CAR sent HW RETech:50 winner dotloop a cease-and-desist letter, asking the transaction management software provider to stop letting customers fill out CAR’s copyrighted forms using dotloop’s software. dotloop complied. "There’s a real question that has sparked a lot of controversy in the industry. "We believe in forward progress. However, the CEO assured that dotloop complied immediately to the request. Sharfman is also the CTO of CAR. Mhopkins@housingwire.com. Online Real Estate Transaction Management Program - Reesio. Howard Tager Co-Founder & SVPTigerLead Solutions at Move, Inc. Howard co-founded TigerLead Solutions in 2007 and served as the company’s CEO until it's acquisition by Move Inc. in 2012. In his current role as SVP of Move & Co-Founder of the TigerLead Solutions operation, Howard oversees business development and strategy and serves as TigerLead’s chief evangelist within the nationwide community of residential real estate agents, brokers, coaches, and consultants.

Most recently, and in close partnership with Move Inc., Howard has co-founded a new “next generation” performance marketing and big data technology company called Ylopo with the mission to build the world's most intuitive real estate search engine. An experienced public speaker, Howard is a sought-after presenter at real estate industry conferences and associations on the topics of business strategy, entrepreneurship, Internet marketing, lead management, and lead conversion.

Raise the funds to build your real estate tech venture. There’s been an explosion of real estate tech startups and acquisitions of promising companies in the space. Last month, realtor.com operator Move Inc. announced that it had acquired Doorsteps, a company that helps homebuyers and their agents walk through the homebuying process together. Doorsteps — which had only opened its platform up to consumers in January — was just the latest in a string of recent acquisitions by Move that included eFrogPond Inc., Relocation.com, TigerLead Solutions LLC and SocialBios.

Move rivals Zillow and Trulia — flush with capital from their initial public offerings — have also been in acquisition mode. Zillow, which went public in 2011 and raised $156.7 million in a follow-on offering that closed in September, has acquired a half dozen companies since 2011: HotPads, RentJuice, Mortech Inc., Buyfolio, Diverse Solutions and Postlets. Real Estate Technology. Tempted to Buy Social Media Followers? Why Less is More If you get spam emails, you’ve probably seen subject lines like this: ... Zeroing in on Clients’ Needs: Working Smarter, Not Harder Since 2009, Realtors Property Resource® (RPR®)—a database of parcel-centric property information, built upon more than 160 million properties—has provided real estate professionals with access to information from multiple sources, including public records and tax assessment information; liens, standalone mortgages and refinancing loans; school district data, reviews, test scores and more. ...

Billings Association of REALTORS® Announces Point2 MLS and Consumer Portal Recently, the Billings Association of REALTORS® (BAR) launched Billings.org, a consumer real estate search portal powered by Point2. Homefinder.com App Maximizes Showings It’s undeniable that most consumers in the market for a new home begin their searches on the Web. iPad Video 101: Using Your iPad as an All-in-One Solution. Real Estate Technology.