Comments on: Phoenix Home Search: Improved! Now Search for Foreclosures, Short Sales, Price Changes and More

By: Tampa Real Estate

Tampa Real Estate — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:53:55 +0000

Adding those search options will increase your sales and visitors to your website, thanks for this great option, I think a few websites have this option, this will make you unique

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:18:10 +0000

@Julia – I just tested it and we are not experiencing any problems with the number of results from our IDX when searching by city, community, tract or zip that you are referring to. But if there is a problem I’m sure Diverse Solutions is working on it.

By: Julia V

Julia V — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:43:50 +0000

@Danielle. I don’t know about my MLS but it seems it’s with your MLS as well. Case in point: If you have a client searching for all available homes in “Acacia Crossing” (or Acacia Crossings), they will find less than 40 in your MLS search. Double check that with your actual MLS. This is precisely what I’m talking about. In the old version you are able to find ALL available Acacia Crossing listings… “Ahwatukee” should have at least 185 search results. dsSearch will find less than 80.

By: As Promised - A New Way to Search For Homes in Charlottesville | Real Central VA

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:01:23 +0000

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By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:53:13 +0000

We have been thinking about just letting visitors search for some time now without registering but we get so many great leads when we do require them after so many searches. When you have such a great IDX solution like we do from Diverse Solutions it gives the visitor more of an incentive because it is so unique. However, in this age of free information why not. Who knows…

@Julia – It looks as though it is not a problem with Diverse Solutions but more with your MLS. How about some standards with how tract information is entered. I don’t know about your customers but mine wouldn’t know what a % does? I have had their IDX solution from it was first released and I have never heard of that much less my customers. I am assuming this is some type of wildcard that is an undocumented feature? If that is in fact what it is that would be horrible. Talk about getting more results that they didn’t intend to get not to mention making it confusing. I am very happy with their new enhancements as my customers seem to be too.

By: Julia V

Julia V — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:24:41 +0000

I don’t know if you have noticed this so far… Because this new version is so reliant on selecting only from the dropdown menu when entering City, Community, Tract, Zip, here’s a major drawback.

ref: my dsSearch link: http://idx.diversesolutions.com/search/460

1. First of all the drop down is only limited to 10 items. Some cities or subdivisions may really have as many as 20 but only 10 are shown…. but that doesn’t really matter, see #2.

2. It is tedious to select each and every item just to see all available listing. Take Fishhawk in Tampa Bay for example.

By selecting ALL of Fishhawk in the drop down menu, you are only able to show 43 when there is actually 145. See results from new version below and results from a link from the old version.

New version: shows 43 results after selecting all of Fishhawk items tediously:

http://idx.diversesolutions.com/search/460#Tracts=Fishhawk%2CFishhawk%20Area%2CFishhawk%20Ranch%2CFishhawk%20Ranch%20Ph%2002%2CFishhawk%20Ranch%20Ph%202%20Par%20A%20And%2CFishhawk%20Ranch%20Phase%2CFishhawk%20Ranch%20Phase%201%20Unit%201b%2CFishhawk%20Ranch%20Phase%201%20Unit%206%2CFishhawk%20Ranch%20Phase%201%20Units%201&PropertyTypes=216%2C217%2C218&PerformSearch

Old version: shows 145 results.
http://idx.diversesolutions.com/search/460#Cities=%25fishhawk%25&Communities=%25fishhawk%25&Tracts=%25fishhawk%25&PropertyTypes=217&PerformSearch

By: Home Searches Just Got Better (But we still ignore you.) — The San Diego Home Blog

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:22:52 +0000

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By: Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy

Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:03:07 +0000

@Lisa – you know, you can fix that whole winterizing thing by relocating to Phoenix…

@Mike – thanks for the kind words!

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:16:27 +0000

Hi Jay,

I am a realtor in Florida as well as an Internet Marketer. I’ve tested this on-going debate: forced sign up vs. free search access.

My team’s results of site visitors overwhelmingly goes with your hunch: visitors HATE being forced to opt-in before they’re allowed to search.

In fact, here’s one other FACT according to our testing: the “canned” free reports, whether forced opt-in or free, are worthless.

This will not shock or even surprise you: those reports LACK personality. Is it any wonder why your visitors keep returning to your site? Hardly. You provide regular, on-going VALUE.

I’ve read your blog for some time. You’re not afraid to share your thoughts and opinions. That’s what people want, isn’t it?

On one of my blogs recently launched, I follow the approach you’ve perfected…be transparent, provide quality, ongoing content & genuinely desire to help others.

Thanks for offering great content, Jay. You’re a rare find on the Internet!

Mike Payne
REALTOR
Sarasota, Florida

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By: Lisa Glowacki

Lisa Glowacki — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:21:04 +0000

I think this could be a big help. I was just sitting here trying to figure out why people are not buying at the good listed prices. I figure they must be waiting for the property to be foreclosed on. Even bank owned properties in the winter in New England can be risky due to the fact most properties will be winterized requiring the potential buyer to turn on utilities, put oil in the tank, etc to do a proper inspection. We know you can face problems sometimes if the property isn't winterized properly. **Lisa Glowacki´s last blog post..Election Day Rhode Island. MUST SEE. Everyone Person has a Right to His/Her Choice. No Matter What Age.