What Mobile Apps and Online Tools Are You Using?

From time to time we like to blog about different online tools available to real estate sales professionals as it is the best way to keep everyone in the know and the industry more competitive as a whole. This time around we decided to ask you. Here was some of the feedback.

·       Kevin Roberts – one of our American counterparts chimed in. President of Southwest at Transwestern, a real estate company in Texas, swears by LandVision. Texas’s version of GeoWarehouse, LandVision is a mapping tool that helps real estate sales professionals research listing, sales, ownership demographic and other information about properties of interest. We agree that having online or mobile app access to a state of the art mapping tool that enables you to perform due diligence and learn all that you can about a property, owner or neighbourhood is a vital asset to real estate sales professionals.

·       Denise Paradis – real estate sales professional at RE/MAX has been taking advantage of Windows Movie Maker to support incorporating video into her sales and marketing. Denise said that Windows Movie Maker is “easy, fast and free and very feature-rich, taking raw videos and/or stills and creating an edited version ready for publication to websites and/or YouTube. Adding narration, captions, titles, music is easy too.” Denise also posted a sample of her results when using Window Movie Maker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmO8eanCd50.

·       Robert MacKay – co-founder of Manage My Nest raised the importance of Cloud based SaaS solutions. Manage My Next is an online property management platform that supports homeowner associations, condo companies, co-ops and more… Tools like this can be very important to real estate sales professionals who also have a management portfolio or pool of properties that they rent/manage.

·       Patti Secord – real estate sales professional at iProRealty Ltd. Brokerage – contributed GeoWarehouse as one of her favourite online tools. For this reason, we are obliged to tell you more about it… *wink *wink. GeoWarehouse is an online mapping tool that enables real estate sales professionals to search properties and neighbourhoods and generate reports but is also a platform to perform much needed research such as sales history, property ownership, demographic information and more… You can also purchase supplemental information like surveys, condo certificates, Parcel Registers, instrument images*, MPAC assessment reports and more…

·       Mark Savel - a real estate sales professional in Ontario, practicing since 2007. Mark also runs the very popular blog forum TorontoLivings.com that not only addresses issues related to real estate but also looks at culture, entertainment and other lifestyle issues relevant to living in the GTA. He recently reviewed the new tool introduced by the Teranet this month - ViMO (Virtual Mobile Office).

ViMO is a mobile app available to real estate sales professionals in Ontario. The app is a sales and support tool that real estate sales professionals can use to perform research and do more on the go. In the review, Mark mentioned some of his favourite features:

·       “With the new app we’ll be able to pull up both sold and available prices right away.  Being able to do this will help purchasers make decisions in a quicker yet informed way… especially helpful in hot and competitive market!”

·       “Another cool feature of the app is the “heat map”.  Within a few clicks, users are able to see how hot a particular area is.”

·       “What I’m most looking forward to is the augmented reality function and its paperless contract ability.”

·       “Currently digital signatures on the Agreement of Purchase and Sale are not valid in Ontario – although that is quickly slated to change. In anticipation of this, the new ViMO app will allow purchasers and sellers to sign from the app on the spot saving a ton of time and paper!”

Mark indicated that ViMO will definitely be a new tool that he will be using in 2014.

We hope you enjoyed our share on online and mobile tools for real estate sales professionals as heard from other colleagues in your industry. If you would like more information about mobile and online apps for real estate sales professionals please visit www.myvimo.ca.  

http://torontolivings.com/tag/vimo

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