Though I've left behind any professional full-time interests in the Real Estate industry, the space continues to capture my interest I learned a great deal about commercial real estate business working for a web based mapping company targeting various aspects of the business, and I gained a lot of respect for the [...]
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Forcing change on the real estate industry
Published October 8th, 2006 in apartment, new york city, real estate and web application.After using Diigo for a split second to track apartments that I might be interested in, I realized that I need something a bit more sophisticated. At just about the same time, I started sending out lots of e-mails about these apartments, and I decided to just try copying all my useful information into [...]
Diigo: discussions for your bookmarks
Published July 17th, 2006 in Software, apartment, bookmarking and workflow.http://www.diigo.com
In my previous post about BLAGs, I had thought the best way to collaboratively discuss links and articles would be through taking all your bookmarks and feeding the into a blog, where you could post comments.
Diigo took one of many attempts at the social bookmarking phenomenon and succeeds at creating an intuitive interface for facilitating [...]
NYC Apartment Search: Dealing with Brokers
Published July 12th, 2006 in apartment, nyc and workflow. I'm in the thick of the apartment search, thus the major lack of time for posting, and I am going completely insane from dealing with apartment brokers. Apparently I'm not the only one:
Metro NYC: Getting off Craig's list
Watch out when you're looking for an apartment to rent on craigslist. Brokers, not [...]
After moving to the city a few months ago and going through a mad dash to find only a 3 month sublet (that would hold me over till I found a more permanent place), I decided before I repeat the process I need to have an efficient workflow in place.
To start, lets outline the previous [...]
