Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/WebExperienceProgress Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WebExperienceProgress?atomcommentsDWiki2010-11-26T22:59:35ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/WebExperienceProgress.From 71.116.163.6 on /blog/web/WebExperienceProgresstag:CSpace:blog/web/WebExperienceProgress:ccfc7453526008c6de4ebcfbb800b2426616b972From 71.116.163.6<div class="wikitext"><p>About seven years ago (!) our realtor would actually pick us up and drive us around to prospective houses. Presumably she had done a bunch of winnowing on her own based on the criteria we'd given her, but we never had to do the work ourselves. It's probably the case that you could do much of the searching on your own now, and maybe the real estate business is different in Canada than in southern California, but not having to do that research made the process a bit easier and (somewhat) less stressful than it might have been otherwise. Given the number of houses that we ended up looking at and the time it took for us to find one we liked, our realtor certainly earned her commission.</p>
</div>2010-11-26T22:59:35ZFrom 68.82.55.139 on /blog/web/WebExperienceProgresstag:CSpace:blog/web/WebExperienceProgress:72c1fdf25d2269d71722e671ae1bb08b9f8801e9From 68.82.55.139<div class="wikitext"><p>The last time I dealt with realty (about a year ago) we were still pulling tarballs via FTP. Paid listing service. You get a bunch of (often) poorly formatted text files which you parse and do stuff with.</p>
<p>Perhaps they've hit Web 2.0 and now you just query the service via an API.</p>
<p>Realty as a Service?</p>
<p>Let me know when we get Reality as a Service...</p>
<p>--bdha</p>
</div>2010-11-26T07:01:53ZFrom 131.137.219.14 on /blog/web/WebExperienceProgresstag:CSpace:blog/web/WebExperienceProgress:33167e7b36a4d61cc11b308d467b16fba61df87dFrom 131.137.219.14<div class="wikitext"><p>Four years ago you couldn't even get the address of a listing, never mind a map. You needed to go through your agent for that.</p>
<p>The pricing information is online, but it is a fee-based service. I can't remember the name of the site. It could be a realtor only service, I have only seen printouts from the site.</p>
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