Technology for Real Estate Professionals Blog

Real estate professionals who want to transition to a paperless business model using e-signatures on digital documents should look at Real Estate Dashboard from VREO.There are two types of e-signature systems being marketed today. One type captures the signature in the user's own handwriting. Thi...

The heart of Willow Glen is a strip of Lincoln Avenue running from Minnesota Avenue to Willow Street. Near the corner of Lincoln and Minnesota you'll find Hickelbee's Books, where unknown author J.K. Rowling once read a chapter of her new book "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" to a handful ...

Now that you've created your blog, completed your profile, and written your introductory "Welcome" post introducing your blog and providing some background about yourself, it's time to write your second and third blog posts.  Why two posts?  Because you need to provide one pitch for sellers and a...

School districts are a key factor in property values here in Santa Clara County. You can access a variety of school district information on the internet.The Santa Clara County Office of Education has a school district locator on their website that you can use to look up the elementary, high schoo...

A few weeks ago, I presented an overview of Microsoft Outlook. Today, let's look at how we can use Outlook to automatically sort our incoming mail into a specific virtual in-tray.Let's say we were working with a seller at 123 Lincoln in San Jose. Wouldn't it be convenient to keep all mail related...

The California Association of REALTORS® launched the C.A.R. Legal Blog a couple of ago. The blog is written by Assistant General Counsel Neil D. Kalin, legal advisor to C.A.R.'s Standard Forms Committee. Neil asked for topic suggestions, so this is another opportunity to get qualified answers to ...

Lupe Soto from Burbank Real Estate was kind enough to point out that the "contact me" link in my post Tools: RSS Feeds Explained wasn't working properly.  I love getting messages like that because they mean two things:First, something of mine is broken, but now I know it's broken, so I have a cha...

Imagine Trulia, Zillow, or another outside listings aggregator making the following proposal to your local board:We realize that your listings are valuable and that without them our business would be worthless.  In exchange for your valuable listings, we would be willing to provide MLS functional...

TMS stands for Transaction Management System. TMS platforms provide support for online escrow coordination, virtual assistants, and paperless real estate transactions.  RELAYTM is the only REALTOR® owned TMS platform.  Other TMS platforms include SureClose (Stewart), Transaction Point (Fidelity),...

What is RELAYTM?RELAYTM is the only REALTOR® owned TMS platform. TMS stands for Transaction Management System. TMS platforms provide support for online escrow coordination, virtual assistants, and paperless real estate transactions.  Other TMS platforms include SureClose (Stewart), Transaction Po...