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I sell homes all over the Pittsburgh area. Pittsburgh has about 150 neighborhoods. I live in one of them. Knowing about the other 149 is a bit of a challenge.

Sometimes here is how my conversation with my out-of-town buyers goes:

Me: So… what do you think?

Mr. Buyer: Hmm.. nice house! Is there a gym nearby?

Me: Um.. Yes there is… (thank God, I’d Google’d it out last night). Just 3 miles down the road.

Mr. Buyer: Does it have a pool, do you know?

Me: Oh.. I’ll have to get back to you on that.

Mrs. Buyer: I love dancing. Is there a dance studio near here?

Me: Yes… (Thankyou Google!). I did see it on the map of the area.

Mrs. Buyer: Oh great! Can I walk to it or do I have to drive?

Me: I’ll have to get back to you on that too

Mr. and Mrs. Buyer:

Well… that is an uncomfortable situation to be in. I’m sure many of my realtor friends will agree with that. Well, that’s where aroundpoint tours have helped me immensely.

I just created the inital property and let the seller fill in the details. Most times he’s more than happy to provide the detail to showoff his neighborhood. And now Aroundpoint will find the Points of Interest for you! All the seller or me have to do is to personalize them.

I hope you like the tool too! Try it here

Let me know your experience!

Cheers!

Shalini

Uncategorized buyer, neighborhood, Seller, tool, tour

Google is finding it’s way into the very fabric of our being! Google Voice is slated to hit prime time shortly. No more excuses… The answering machine is always on!

Gmail pioneered the unique approach of targeted ad campaigns by trolling through our in-boxes. Will GoogleVoice adopt a similar approach by parsing our sound bytes to figure out what we may want to buy?Although, I must say, listening to ads while retriving my voice-mail doesn’t seem very palatable

But of all the features the GoogleVoice offers, the one that floats to the top on my list is Personalized Greetings. With the ease of changing greetings via the web, having one voice greeting for the wife another for the boss is… sweet!

Now, if only they would add a Text-to-speech (TTS) feature to the voice-mail, the possibilities are endless: eMail to vMail and back, on the touch of a button!

Technically, parsing voice data seems like a daunting task. But… if any company is poised well to take on that project and scale it well, I’d bet my money on Google Inc.

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We know that more 80% of home buyers initially use the internet to begin their home search. With ubiquitous mapping solutions, there are tons of sites that will tell you what is around the property that is being considered for purchase. However, the personalizing of those surroundings is aroundpoint’s value propostion.

For instance:

Where does the school bus stop? Can I see it from my kitchen window? That can be an important fact to know if I end up driving my child to the bus-stop two houses down on snowy days.

I love dancing… is there a dance studio in the neighborhood of the property? If so, what’s it like? How much does it cost?

And baby-sitting! Are there enough baby-sitters in the area for my toddler when I want that much needed breather?

And tons more… Here’s a sample!

Thoughts anyone?

Uncategorized AROUNDPOINT, Points of Interest, Surroundings

I thought I never forget a face…. and I was right!

I just took this test and got a 100% in the strongest category!

So… don’t cross me, I know where to find you!!

There are some, I know who don’t remember the face but the telephone number instead!! Who’s that guy… um.. 717 346 9 something!!!

Can you get a 100%? Give it a shot.. takes about 10 minutes.

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Whatever happened to the hype about getting us to use our iPhones to unlock the supra lockboxes ?

The Supra Lockboxes use InfraRed waves for communicating with the “key” device. I would think that with the blue tooth standard, it would be easy for iPhones/iTouches to have the software to unlock the lockboxes. And you really don’t have to have a wi-fi connection to the internet when we are at the listing. Update the “keys” at home using the home wi-fi and then use bluetooth to unlock at the listing!

Why isn’t this already available?

Shalini

Uncategorized iPhone, iTouch, lockbox, SupraKey

Hello friends!

I found this extremely funny!

Obama's dog wanna-be

Uncategorized DOG, FUNNY