Let's face it; not everyone has GPS equipped vehicles yet. So a nice addition to our listings would be to have a map with a map pin that shows where the listing is. Well, one such tool exists and it is called RentVine.
This map can be found on my Visual Tours Listings Website which also directs customers to my Zip Codes Listings Websites (link to subject of my last AR blog). This is just one of several things you could do with this great mapping tool. But wait, the best is yet to come!
Talk about impressive!! This was a first for me. I was editing this RentVine map for my real estate listings and experienced a minor problem that was generating an error. I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. Normally, it has been very easy to do the mapping of my listings with map pins, adding text, price, photo, and description and I would be done with the map in about a minute and ready to cut and paste the code onto my website.
But this time, no matter what I did including deleting the map and starting over, it just kept generating an error. I heard a ding so I thought I would take a break and check out the email that had just come in (a ding works for me instead of "You've Got Mail").
Anyway, the email was from Dave Dugdale of RentVine's Support Team asking me what I had done right before the error was generated. I thought I was dreaming -- I didn't have to call anyone and wait on the phone, tech support was contacting me!!
Well the problem turned out to be a corrupted photo of my listing that Dave had me email to him. He fixed the graphic by resaving it in his photo editing software and uploaded the image to my map for me. He fixed it for me! I would have expected something like "You'll need to get another photo" but he fixed it! Thanks Dave and RentVine for such a fine product and fantastic immediate tech support!
Disclaimer: I have no financial interest in RentVine, will make no money from writing this blog, and have never heard of Dave Dugdale prior to his tech support contact with me today.
Thanks!
Rob Lang, ABR, ePro, GRI Realtor®
Realty Executives, Hedges Real Estate
300 Rockfence Pl, Lawrence, KS 66049
785-393-2274 (cell) 785-542-1661 (fax)
rob@LetRobDoIt.com http://www.ihaveaddresses.com/
NOTE: This blog was written in the past about properties on the market at the time of the blog being written and should not be considered as active listings beyond the date of this blog.
This is WAY cool.
Ooh, Passion - never seen that one before! :)
If there is enough interest I could modify the mapping tool to use the Yahoo Maps API.
Thanks,
Dave
RentVine.com