Steve Castaneda's Blog: Real Estate Agent Technology

Today, the Houston Association of Realtor's site came down today, with no reports of exactly what happened.  Since late on the 2nd of May, the consumer site for HAR began having technical difficulties, along with the agent sites, neighborhood reports, and even IDX feeds agents frame on their sites.

After calling HAR technical support, there is on estimated completion time for this outage to be repaired, but they are aware of the problem and working to resolve it as quickly as possible. I will be sure to keep you abreast of any news that transpires. 

 - Who spilled their coffee on the servers?-

On a side note, has your associations site ever had long technical difficulties and how did that effect your business?  Most consumers will visit a real estate…

I received an offer in on one of my real estate listings yesterday, and I went through the normal routine of asking myself, “How can technology help me present this offer in its best light?”. I jumped into my contact management program, Top Producer 7i, and quickly found my way over to the financial section to work on a seller net sheet. Using this tool is very simple and intuitive, and it helped me create a professional looking net sheet that is presentable in a professional way.

The last thing I want is to scribble down a net sheet on a piece of paper, and that’s exactly why Top Producer’s net sheet calculator shines. It has a nifty built in report function that will print out and summarize the expenses and income of the sale. At the bottom of all the…