An addictive easy way to shop for homes
‘My ShackPrices’ received a little update earlier this week. Not only has the property list layout been updated for easier perusal, but a few more options have been added to your fingertips, allowing you to view each property on the map, view the property details, as well as what’s nearby! Additionally, we’ve highlighted (with green) the ability for you to...
I was busy dealing with boring paperwork stuff last week, but Doug was cranking out features like a madman. They’ve been coming so quickly that we haven’t been able to let you, our dedicated users, know about them. On to the feature of the day: your saved properties now show up with a neato little star on the map, which...
The ShackPrices team grew by nearly 50% a week and a half ago when Seattle Art Institute student Shaun Grady showed up for his first day of his internship with us. We’re really excited to have him helping us make our design and css (web page styling) first rate. Shaun will be blogging about some of the projects he’s working...
Whenever Doug and I show people ShackPrices, they sit down and begin typing their address into the search box, causing us to apologetically explain that, while ShackPrices is powerful, it can only send you to neighborhoods, cities, and zip codes (did you know that you can type a neighborhood name in the search box?). Today ShackPrices has become a little...
Say you’re driving to work and you see a cool house for sale along the way. Say you’re also like me – you generally know what street you’re on, but by the time you get to work, you’ve entirely forgotten the cross street the house was on. This is one of the home buyer’s problems that can be helped by...
We just added a search box on ShackPrices that lets you limit your search to any piece of text that is in a listing. That means the marketing remarks (from the seller), the amenities, the status, everything. Type in a word to try it out. Include a minus sign in front of it to avoid a word (-townhouse). Seriously, it’s...