So many of today’s buyers start their home searches online, and look to websites like ours, Cribchatter, and in some cities, Curbed, to get a sense of the market around them. But the Internet isn’t the end-all, be-all when it comes to a home purchase. In this segment of his chat with Joe Zekas, Koenig & Strey President / CEO Doug Ayers explains the importance of agent networks and the limits of information presented on the Internet.
yeah right realtors. keep trying to convince yourselves your job isn’t going to way of newpapers.
The interent is an invaluable resource-would an agent inform me of this? The listing agent at @ properties didn’t…
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33451644/Bryton-Development-4525-N-Western-Chicago-3021-3023-N-Southport-Kevin-Bryar-Tom-Staunton-Michael-J-Coleman-Construction
maps.google.com: its this cool (and free!) website that allows you to see both flat and satellite views of a property. It makes it quite easy to tell if a property is, say, 300′ from a major street or next to a nuclear waste disposal plant. Often times it is even included right in the listing! If a buyer using the internet is not using this and all resources available to him or her, it is not a limit to the information available on the internet, but a limit to the intelligence of the user.