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Aug. 25, 2006 - Personalized real estate listings

NAR's most recent research shows more than three-quarters of home buyers begin their search for a new home on the Intenet. 

Most of their effort goes along these lines ... go to Realtor.com, Dalton's Arizona Homes or a similar site with search capabilities, enter your criteria, sift through a couple of dozen homes they don't like to find the three they do, log off.  Then they start the next day doing the same thing. Lather, rinse, repeat. And while they may find the house they want, they're spending a lot of valuable time doing it.

Tobey and I offer an easier way ... personalized search results delivered to your Inbox each morning.

We ask you your criteria and then establish a search on a personalized web site. Listings can be sorted by time on market or price, and also can be labeled as Favorities and Possibilities. And, best of all, if you don't like the look of a house, mark it as a reject and you'll never have to look at it again - it will be removed from the search.

Here's a screen shot of a sample web page:

Best of all, you can communicate your preferences to me whether it's 2 in the afternoon or 3 in the morning. There is a notes feature where you can record what you like, what you don't and what else you might like to learn about any given property.

But this isn't just for buyers ... if you're thinking about putting your home on the market, there's no better way to keep track of the market for similar homes in your own backyard.

To set yourself up for your own listings web site, simply e-mail me at info@daltonsazhomes.com with your criteria. Your search and your web site will be ready within 24-48 hours.

(c) Jonathan Dalton, 2006 / Jonathan Dalton's Arizona Homes