Real Estate Zealot

Greg Howard uses The Latest Technology in Real Estate

Metro Broker, Greg Howard of Metro Real Estate Group uses the latest technology to sell real estate across the Denver and Colorado Springs metro areas and the entire front range.

Interviewer: Hi I'm Kathy Soltero with MetrobrokersTV.com, and today in the studio we have with us Greg Howard. He is with the Metro Real Estate Group. Greg, thank you so much for coming in and talking with us.

Greg: Thanks for having me.

Interviewer: Tell me first of all about where you're actually located?

Greg: Our main office is in downtown Colorado Springs at 612 North Tejon. We used to be at 625 and we just recently moved down the street, three blocks.

Interviewer: And you said you are doing a lot more of business here in the Denver Metro area.

Greg: I have, I have spent a long time living here in the South Denver area and I find that I have got more of a client base here currently than I do in the Colorado Springs market. So, even though I'm marketing to the Colorado Springs, I just have a lot going on here.

Interviewer: You drive up and down the I-25 corridor.

Greg: I do, I do. It's not so bad; I am on the North side of the Springs.

Interviewer: You use a lot of technology in your business; tell me a little bit about that.

Greg: I do, it starts off with my website. My website, through my website you can find property searches on anything from way north of Denver all the way to the south side of Colorado Springs, a little bit into the foothills. You can find information about HUD properties. There is a lot of informational videos on there as well. So if you want to know what it takes to buy a HUD property, you can click on that and watch it as well. Other things I do with my website, all my listings get their own private websites, so that I can actually market them and people can find all the information on the house without having to look in at a piece of paper in the yard.

Interviewer: So, automatically when you take a listing and you put it into the MLS or whatever, your website just picks it up right away, and you can create a website for it or.

Greg: I create a website, but it's fairly automated. I have things that I have to enter, and then when I do all my marketing, I market that website and that website takes them directly to the information of the house, pictures, and virtual tours.

Interviewer: What kind of new technology have you really embraced with your real estate?

Greg: Getting away from flyers, that's probably the best thing that's going on right now, you've seen lots of gimmicks that agents have used, I say gimmicks, lots of tools that agents have used to capture leads or capture buyers for their listings. I use what's called the QR code or Microsoft tag on all my listings and on my flyers. If you take a smartphone you can click on that, and I can give you any information I so choose, it can take you to my website or the website of the home or to the virtual tour or can be all the disclosures for the property. So somebody can actually pull up in front of the house and take a picture with their smartphone and they can get all the information they want on the house.

Interviewer: So that works like they just take a picture of it, is that...

Greg: Well, there is actually a...

Interviewer: Is there a scan or...

Greg: Well you basically scan it; there is an app that you have to download in your phone. But it's very easy, you can even go to my website, and get that app, and you just click on it and it automatically directs you to either information or a website.

Interviewer: It sounds to me like, through your website to that, buyers or sellers could look all over the metro area.

Greg: They can, they can, there's really no place from, let's say, Boulder, all the way to the south end of Colorado Springs that they can't view homes.

Interviewer: Tell me what's your website is, so they can go, check it out.

Greg: It's really easy, it's greghowardrealtor.com.

Interviewer: That is pretty easy.

Greg: Yeah.

Interviewer: Greg any other information you want to pass onto customers, as far as how they can get a hold of you.

Greg: My cell phone is a great way to do it, it's area code 719-445-9515 and the other thing is, I am doing a lot of work in the South Denver metro area now so, I'm actually trying to focus on that, so that's just Colorado Springs.

Interviewer: Okay, very good. Greg, thank you so much for joining us again today.

Greg: Very good, it's a pleasure, thank you.

Interviewer: And for more real estate related videos like this one, be sure to tune your web browser to MetrobrokersTV.com.

Marketing and the MLS

Use all the great tools Metrolist has to offer to create custom branded reports, informative presentations and interesting blogs with up to date statistics and reports on real estate in Colorado.

Interviewer: Today we are talking with Mike Hixon from Hixon & Associates. Mike, welcome to the program, good to have you here.

Mike Hixon: Thank you.

Interviewer: We are talking about building a personal brand for realtors and the MLS and how that may all tie in and help but let's start with talking about brand and image, why is that important today for realtors?

Mike Hixon: Oh, brand and image is huge as far as establishing your brand, because everything that you send out, you want to have it branded, so down from your email to every bit of marketing literature that you send out, even to colleagues or associates as well, you know everything that's got your name on it leads people to you.

Interviewer: I tell people it should all look the same: your website, your Facebook, your Twitter, your e-mail it should all provide kind of the same service and lend some type of message and credibility.

Mike Hixon: Yes, exactly.

Interviewer: Which I imagine you do with all of your associates?

Mike Hixon: I do.

Interviewer: Some easy ways to do that, obviously we just talked about a few but if you are a realtor and you are just starting out and you say, 'What do I do about establishing a brand?", what would be the first thing you would give him?

Mike Hixon: Well you know it's interesting that you ask that because I just had a conversation with a colleague of mine, who went through a training course with me. Had I had the benefit of knowing a lot of this information upfront, it would have been huge.

Interviewer: Yeah.

Mike Hixon: You know I mean the first thing you've got to do is, you've got to setup an email that tells people every time you send them something what you do, and who you are.

Interviewer: Yeah.

Mike Hixon: I mean that's the first thing. And then of course you know your business relationship, how you are going to setup your office and the name of your office and how you are going to brand everything you send out, from letterhead to email.

Interviewer: I am an internet marketing guy and people always talk about that because that seems to be the wave of technology today and so forth, and a lot of people get wrapped up in it, but the bottom line is I still tell people, 'as you can do all that, this really still comes down to a relationship business', talk a little bit about that.

Mike Hixon: Big time relationship business, it is strictly relationship, you know I think I read, heard something the other day that says, "If you think you are a realtor, you are wrong, what you are is a marketer; and it's all about marketing. I mean people have to know your name, they have to see you, you have to have exposure, they have to see you somewhere and a lot of it is referral business, but you know there are a lot of folks out there that, if they see something on the internet, like YouTube or whatever that's their first point of contact and a lot of it is electronic now.

Interviewer: I hear a lot about how in the last 10 years, realtors are really breaking off into specialties, distressed property specialist, divorce specialist, whatever it may be, how important is that to incorporate into your brand?

Mike Hixon: I think it's important, I don't know that you want to just be strictly branded by one specific niche but, if you do a lot in general and your specialty is short-sales or REO, that's important to get it out specifically to your colleagues or you know other realtors in the business because a lot of times that's where I get referrals.

Interviewer: Lastly Mike, the MLS obviously is very cooperative and user-friendly for agents to help brand the agent and help talk about their personal marketing and so forth, talk about a few ways in which the MLS does that for realtors.

Mike Hixon: MLS is huge for realtors as far as getting information out to your colleagues in the business. So how do you use that as far as sorting up your listings is I think pretty important. I see so many times when you come across information that you are looking for, and it's just been skipped over, it's important information that you need, especially things that you are searching on, you know, but the more information you put in, the better off you are going to be.

Interviewer: Mike thanks.

Mike Hixon: You are welcome.

Interviewer: Appreciate you being here.

Mike Hixon: You bet. Thank you.

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Enhance your Listing Presentations with RPR

The Realtors Property Resource is a valuable real estate tool that gives you in-depth property knowledge to enhance your listing presentations. There is even a new mobile app to let you log-in from your smart phone!

Interviewer: Today we are talking with David Barber from Re/Max Unlimited, and the topic is RPR. First of all David, welcome to the show.

David Barber: Thank you Dan, it's nice to be here.

Interviewer: Lot of agents don't know what RPR is or what those initials stand for, so let's start there.

David Barber: Okay RPR is the Realtors Property Resource. This is an ambitious project started by the National Association of Realtors and their end goal is to catalog 157 million parcels of property in the United States. It's been in existence for a little over 24 months and is becoming alive in a lot of markets and being a very valuable tool.

Interviewer: And obviously they are partnering with your local MLS is which is where they are getting a lot of the data I assume.

David Barber: What they are doing is consolidating data in this area from Metrolist, and also from a lot of public records. So, in the past, when you used to spend a lot of time going to different public sites to gather information, their goal is to have it all in one location.

Interviewer: Yeah I think that's what I like best about it, when I've used it, I can see the data that's coming from your local MLS and then it gives me a side by side comparison about the data that's coming from the public records so you can see if it kind of jives.

David Barber: Exactly, and it is based on what's called the realtor evaluation model, where companies like Zillow and Trulia are using an automated evaluation model that are basically just granting public record data. This allows us as realtors to personalize the information we know about the market place whether that property backs to a busy street or has an enhancement that makes it a little more valuable.

Interviewer: Well as a realtor, if I don't know about it, what can I do on RPR that I can't do on say my local MLS?

David Barber: Well it's, if you think of it as a CMA on steroids. You've got a lot more detailed graphing, you have overlays or maps that you can do a lot more in-depth research. As a realtor, and this is a realtor-only benefit, you do need to have a NRDS number to log in and it gives you tools to enhance your listing presentation that a normal CMA doesn't offer.

Interviewer: Yeah, one of the cool things I thought was just the amount of data that they have on distressed properties. Obviously that's very big with consumers today, they want to know about foreclosure, short sales; people that may be in a distress situation and this is pretty well detailed and laid out there.

David Barber: Exactly, one of the other enhancements is that it gives you some visibility in what's going on in the world outside of our market. So if you have a relocation client, you can take a look at their property, see what they have and what it's worth in their market to kind of help them understand what it's going to be like in our market.

Interviewer: That's where, like the California buyer that comes out here, wants to know about the postage size.

David Barber: Absolutely.

Interviewer: Wow! It's right.

David Barber: Exactly.

Interviewer: All right, they are adding new tools to RPR all the time. You mentioned that they added some more two weeks ago, is that right?

David Barber: Yeah most recently, they've added some new mapping products, you can check flood zones, you can overlay price changes. They've also put in a mobile application, once you are set up and registered on the main RPR site you can log in from your smart phone.

Interviewer: I think I'll do that. David thanks great information.

David Barber: Thanks Dan.

Customizable Searches with Metrolist and PrimeAccess

Create customizable search templates for clients with Metrolist and PrimeAccess. Instantly know how many properties relate to your specific client's needs.

Interviewer: Today we are talking with David Barber from Re/Max Unlimited and the topic is PrimeAccess, a new functionality that they have implemented. Welcome to the show.

David Barber: Thank you Dan, it's good to be here.

Interviewer: How are you?

David Barber: Good, good.

Interviewer: So tell me, last year Metrolist launched some new beta functionality with new searches tell me what's that all about?

David Barber: Well there are a couple of things in the new beta searches. First of all, you get a running tally as you add criteria to the search, you get a running count of how many properties are falling into that category. So rather than hitting the "how many" button and you can constantly see up in the corner of the display how many properties match what you are looking for.

Interviewer: That's cool, that saves you a step.

David Barber: Absolutely, and one of the other nice things is you can customize the layout of the screen you are looking at, once you get search results back.

Interviewer: So almost like set up a template.

David Barber: Certainly, you can either do that and save it as a template or if you are looking for specific things, say you have a client that's looking for acreage property, you can go into a custom menu, add "acreage" and then pull that column directly to the front. So you can see if they are looking at, say 20 to 40 acres, you can look through that criterion very quickly.

Interviewer: And so maybe you haven't heard from them in a while and they want to say, hey is there anything new that's come up, you could easily go back to that template, is that right?

David Barber: Absolutely, you can save it and pull it up at any time. If you save it as a client search, it will always come up that way. If you save it as a default, then everything that you go in and search as will come up like that.

Interviewer: So I think what you are saying is, we don't have to change the display every time if we've got the same client looking for the same product.

David Barber: That's exactly what I am saying.

Interviewer: And do you say the best way to do that is to first set up the criteria and then save it for that particular person.

David Barber: You've got a lot of different ways that you can do it. It's a very dynamic system and you can adjust things as you move through your search or you can set it up with all the criteria and then save it for the client.

Interviewer: Do you use any specific customized options on a regular basis?

David Barber: It really depends on what my clients are looking for, if they are looking for particular neighborhoods you can save that. As I say, acreage properties, zip codes, school districts, or any number of things. It gives you a lot of freedom to search for which criteria is important to your clients.

Interviewer: Last, but not least, if an agent wants to find out more information about how they set this up, how do they do that?

David Barber: Go to www.metrolist.com and they can go to the help center or call Metrolist tech support.

Interviewer: And they will walk you through it.

David Barber: Absolutely.

Interviewer: David, great information, thanks for being with us.

David Barber: Thanks Dan.

RE Technology: A New Benefit to Realtors

Cindy Sheahan of Metrolist, explains the new Real Estate technology.com site a new member benefit from Metrolist.

Interviewer: Today we are talking with Cindy Sheahan she is an account manager with Metrolist and welcome to the show.

Cindy: Hi Dan how are you.

Interviewer: Well, we are talking about RE technology I imagine RE stands for real estate technology. What is it?

Cindy: Real Estate technology.com is a site that is a comprehensive and objective site for real estate agents to go to find all kinds of information about the technology products that are out there?

Interviewer: And this available to me as a member of Metrolist?

Cindy: Yes it is it is available to you on our web page.

Interviewer: It's just a link of off there?

Cindy: Yes it is, you would go to our home page and on the left hand side just scroll down find RE technology link and click on that, log on, create an account and go ahead and do some research there.

Interviewer: So when we are talking about RE technologies some information that maybe on that site give me some examples of it?

Cindy: Well there is all kinds of product reviews so if you are looking into buying some type of new technology for your real estate business and you are not sure what to buy you can go there and do some research find some reviews from people who are using it people like yourself that are in the business and just get all kinds of great information all in one place so that you don't have to do the research and recreate what they have done already for you.

Interviewer: Right, I imagine everybody is talking about whether or not they should use an ipad in their real estate business so I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the first things I saw popped up on there. All right, it sounds like it's a big clearing house for all kinds of real estate resources, am I right?

Cindy: Yes you are right it is a one site stop that you can look at to find information about products you can get reviews on those products you can get tutorials on how to use those products and, in addition to that, there is all kinds of articles that are available and web sites and blogs and columns that are there that are available for you to do the research right there all in one place.

Interviewer: Got you, so you guys just decided to compile this for us as real estate agents who belong to Metrolist?

Cindy: It's been done for you by a third party RE technology.com and because it's embedded in the MLS it's available to Metrolist users at no additional charge.

Interviewer: Got you.

Cindy: It's also embedded on MLS systems all across the country so hundreds of thousands of agents are having access to this.

Interviewer: I would imagine things about smart phones, information about web portals, real estate web portals, things of that nature.

Cindy: Right you will find information about social networking and all the social media that's out there. You will find information about how to stay in touch with your clients, how to stay on top of business, anything that you might think of using to move your real estate business forward.

Interviewer: Sounds good. Thank you very much I appreciate it.

Cindy: Sure you're welcome.

Interviewer: Good information.

New Instanet Enhancements for MLS Users

Instanet, an online real estate forms solution, has added some enhancements to the system for Metrolist users

Interviewer: Today we are talking with Cindy Sheehan she is an account manager with Metrolist and welcome to the show.

Cindy: Hi, thank you, thanks for having me.

Interviewer: Well we are talking about a topic that is kind of near and dear to your heart this is kind of where you spend a lot time and that's Instanet documents?

Cindy: Yes.

Interviewer: And recently there has been some enhancements to the program so tell us about that?

Cindy: Yes we've just recently made some enhancements. One of them is that you can save the document to Microsoft Word, which means that you can save it off site, off the Instanet system and work on it separately. And fill-able fields, that was a big one that everyone was asking for, so now the forms have fields that are fill-able; as much as you need to write in there, you can and they expand to take all the information that you need to put in there.

Interviewer: What types of fields are fill-able?

Cindy: Just about all of them! Additional provisions and the names of the buyers and when you save them in Instanet, you can view them in Microsoft word. You can save it that way, you can save them as PDF and see all the information that you have saved and you can click on the print preview button now and see what the information looks like before you print it.

Interviewer: Yeah that's good. So is this the same as expandable form fields?

Cindy: Yes.

Interviewer: You know its fill-able is just another word for it?

Cindy: Right, right they are expandable so they, they expand to take the information that you enter.

Interviewer: And I imagine some of the feed back you had been getting from consumers is well we could really like a print preview of this and this functionality and how that works before we go ahead and send it.

Cindy: Right so Instanet made these changes for us.

Interviewer: All right now I know one change that you are excited about is and realtors in general would be as glad is that there is an easier way now to upload documents into your MLS listing is that right?

Cindy: Yes, we have made it very, very simple all you need to do is go to your listing, open it up on the screen under the change listing tab and just click on upload documents. You can put in anything that you have. If you've got HOA documents or a roofing certification, a seller's disclosure, mold disclosure, really anything a buyer might ask you for, you can go ahead and upload it.

Interviewer: Will that appear under the disclosures link, in your listing or will it be a separate link?

Cindy: You can do it either way you can either upload everything all together and call it disclosures or documents for, you know, "1, 2, 3 main street" or you can upload them each separately it's up to you.

Interviewer: But it will be that little blue link right at the top of the listings that we have got to click on.

Cindy: Right it will be in the Instanet box between the photo and the map on every listing detail sheet and it will save your documents.

Interviewer: Does it have to be a PDF can it be a word doc, Excel or does it or PDF is it?

Cindy: There are a lot of different formats that can be uploaded. So, it's pretty open.

Interviewer: that gives us some options. So, a little bit more and more people I imagine are using this?

Cindy: Yes

Interviewer: And this is some of the feed back you got about changes to make and so forth?

Cindy: Right, right.

Interviewer: And so how has this been received?

Cindy: Very well I think the document upload has been hugely well received its really easy to use now the fill-able fields was a real concern, people were asking for that to be changed and so there it is its changed. Being able to save things in Word is a nice thing too because you can work off-site you can save it to your computer and the fields are again expandable in word as well.

Interviewer: Well at least my transaction manager will be happy.

Cindy: Oh good

Interviewer: Thanks, good information! Thanks for being here.

Cindy: Sure, you're welcome. Thanks for having me.

Moving Ahead without the Tax Credit Incentives

Alison Brennan talks to us about how the tax credit effects home buying, as well as how the extensions affect sellers and buyers alike.  She also discusses opportunity that still exist and how to be creative without the government’s help.

 

 

Cool iPad Apps for Real Estate

The iPad tops every agents' Holiday Wish List this year with great app's to make your real estate business grow.

photo credit: Brendan Lynch

The iPad is a great business tool for your busy real estate business! Here are the top three must have apps as ranked by Inman News:

1. Zillow Real: "#1 Real Estate App" on iTunes and "Best Real Estate App" by O'Reilly. Home shopping has never been easier. The 10-inch touch screen is a great way to view photo galleries of homes, even compare homes side by side and save your favorites. 93+ million homes at your fingertips. Use Zestimate home values and easy search filters make home shopping easy.
2. Loopnet Commercial Real Estate Search: #1 marketplace App for the iPad allows you to search for an investment property, or space to lease. Get all the details for properties to match your business needs.
3. REALTOR.com: A great real estate app! Instantly access over 4 million homes for sale with updates every 15 minutes. Search photos, property details, open house information and pricing with phenominal search and mapping capabilities.

Read more about the top ten real estate apps for the iPad at Inman News.com

Search Multiple Property Listings with Metrolists Beta Search

Metrolist Account Manager, Hope Hughes, explains the new exciting features of Beta Search, an online tool to make searching for multiple properties easier.

Interviewer: Today we are talking with Hope Hughes, the Account Manager from Metrolist and Hope, welcome to the show.

Hope Hughes: Thanks Dan.

Interviewer: Glad you are here. We are talking about some new searches that are now available to Metrolist customers; they are called 'Beta Searches, what are we looking at?

Hope Hughes: Well, one of the most exciting features about our Beta Search is the ability to search with multiple property types.

Interviewer: Okay so, instead of just going in and looking at condo, I can look at house and condo now, is that right?

Hope Hughes: Correct. Of the four property types, residential, condo, income and land, you can search on one, two, three or all four of those property types now.

Interviewer: All at once?

Hope Hughes: All at once.

Interviewer: Just put in the criteria, you can highlight, I guess radio button all of them?

Hope Hughes: Absolutely.

Interviewer: So Hope that sounds great. Can you tell me a little about like some of the features that are going to be displayed in the new results?

Hope Hughes: Well, the 'results field of your search will display both residential condo or whichever property types you select in your search criteria, it will also display an unlimited amount of results.

Interviewer: Oh so, you know, it will 100, 200 300, it will, will just be going page by page by page?

Hope Hughes: Yes, no limit at all on the amount of searches or on the amount of properties that you could display now with your results.

Interviewer: All right, so not that we would want to do that but...

Hope Hughes: But you could.

Interviewer: But you could, all right. So where do we find these new searches?

Hope Hughes: The searches can be found in the same place the current searches are found; either on the portal page or on the 'search drop down menu.

Interviewer: All right. Now some people dont know what a Beta Search is, what do you mean by the term 'Beta Search?

Hope Hughes: Well 'Beta is a software development term, that means its in the initial phase still of the software release. The Beta Search is available for our customers to test and see how they like it, and then of course give us their feedback and suggestions.

Interviewer: And then your developers kind of tweak it along the way and at some point it goes from a Beta Search to a permanent part.

Hope Hughes: Yes, yes.

Interviewer: Do you have a time frame roughly, you know when that all occurs, is it six months, a year, how long does that process usually take to shake out?

Hope Hughes: Well I don't know if we've determined the exact time frame on it, but we are looking for feedback.

Interviewer: Okay. So, when people want to give feedback how can a Metrolist customer leave a comment or give feedback about how the search worked?

Hope Hughes: The easiest way to do it is right through the PrimeAccess page where we can ask for customer feedback and thats right on the Prime Access top right-hand corner. The other way is to call our customer support number at (303) 850-9613 extension 1, or they can email support@metrolist.com.

Interviewer: All right we are looking forward to using those searches. Hope, thanks for being here, appreciate it.

Hope Hughes: Thank you Dan.

Metrolist Unveils New Enhanced Listing Features

Hope Hughes, Account Manager from Metrolist discusses the advantages of the new enhanced listing features available on PrimeAccess. Now you can enter more details on your listings!

Interviewer: Today we are talking with Hope Hughes, Account Manager for Metrolist. Hope, welcome to the show, thanks for being here.

Hope Hughes: Thank you, Dan.

Interviewer: We are talking about an enhanced feature of 'PrimeAccess one that I think is incredible. Actually I stumbled upon it accidentally as I was looking through some searches, but now you could put up to a thousand characters in the listing entry?

Hope Hughes: Yes, in the public remarks, broker remarks and in the driving directions.

Interviewer: All right, so in the past how many lines or how many characters could we put in the public remarks to talk about our listing?

Hope Hughes: Well previously we had 256 and thats been increased to a thousand now.

Interviewer: To a thousand which is great because I was, like I said I was looking at somebodys listing, they had a whole paragraph of remarks about the place, which I thought was cool, then I said to myself, 'how did they do that? but now I know. So why did you go in this direction?

Hope Hughes: Well a number of reasons really; the first reason is to enhance those listings. Our consumers wanted to be able to give more details about the listings and thats the way to do it so, through customer feedback, and of course the ability to put in more descriptions.

Interviewer: Yeah. How do I know when I have reached my thousand characters, does it give me a little flashing warning light or...?

Hope Hughes: If you are using our entry form, it only has a thousand characters space on it.

Interviewer: Okay.

Hope Hughes: So you will know if you are using the form. If you are entering it directly online, you will see a character counter that will display as you are entering the listing, so it will show you that on the screen.

Interviewer: Okay, so lets say I got a paragraph of description in there, Ive got broker remarks, I got public remarks and I got directions, is then all going to print out like if I send this form to my clients, are they going to see everything?

Hope Hughes: Well some of our reports we would like to keep it on a one page display, so some of them will be truncated and that will be indicated by an ellipses at the end of it to say, there is more thats been truncated.

Interviewer: Okay.

Hope Hughes: For a list of which reports are truncated and which report display the full thousand characters, you can get that at helpcenter.metrolist.com.

Interviewer: Okay, so we just got to see which report will...show all of them and which one will not?

Hope Hughes: Yes.

Interviewer: Okay. But a standard broker showing sheet probably is going to be kept to one page, correct?

Hope Hughes: Yes.

Interviewer: All right, now here is the big question which I want to know which is, most of us know that those public remarks gets syndicated out to the internet, and they go on Zillow, they go on Trulia and Cyberhomes and so forth, the question is if you use the full one thousand characters will that go out to those other internet portals?

Hope Hughes: Okay. We send out all one thousand characters to everyone that we syndicate to, so all of our public sites and our IDX sites. So for example, our public site www.recolorado.com, they will be displaying all thousand characters and already are. Now the IDX site that depends on the IDX vendor, we will be sending it out and most of them will be displaying it but maybe not all, so you will want to check with your particular IDX provider.

Interviewer: So we dont know if its Zillow or Trulia or somebody like that will accept all thousand characters or they are going to shorten that up?

Hope Hughes: Its going to depend on that carrier.

Interviewer: Okay, so we will have to check with them individually?

Hope Hughes: Yes.

Interviewer: Got it. I think its great, I am glad you did it. Good information, thanks for being here, appreciate it.

Hope Hughes: Thanks for having me Dan.