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As the market gets tougher so do the home sellers. If you don’t know any better, you can go from a buyer to a victim. Here are some tips on how to deal with the shady home sellers before and after you interact with them. A desperate home seller will say just about anything to get you to fork up...
We’ve read about startups having their design, code, and content ripped off, but it didn’t prepare us for the emotions we felt when it happened to us. Take heart, startups! Below is a story of how a startup took a big step protecting their IP — in just 36 hours. Over the last two days I have been getting a lot of questions about...
2012 looks like it’s going to be an interesting year in Seattle real estate. The Seattle real estate market is in an awkward teenage phase during its transition from constantly falling prices to what increasingly looks like price stability. Home owners still haven’t come to terms with their homes’ lower valuations, so they’re sitting on them, while home buyers still...
I’m pleased to announce that today we are bringing Estately’s award winning real estate search to San Antonio, Texas. San Antonio brings us to 3 new markets in 2012 in addition to Westchester / Putnam New York and the Dallas / Fort Worth areas in Texas. You will have to squint to get a good idea of the inside of a given home:...
Last week we rolled out one of our most-requested features: townhouse search. Internally we call it “Remove #@!*#*@ Townhomes From My Search!” If you like townhomes, it does come with the ability to only look at townhomes too. The townhome boom of the aughts was particularly concentrated in Seattle, but people throughout America are passionate about the topic of shared walls....
Today we are announcing the launch of Estately in the Dallas / Fort Worth Texas area and in Westchester and Putnam Counties in New York. We have no allusions about the likelihood of our transit information on every property getting much use in Dallas, but in place where walking is unheard of, we find walkers really value having Walk Scores...