huntsville alabama mls: Huntsville Homes for Sale with Map Search! - 03/12/09 12:15 PM
I am one lucky gal.  Not only am I lucky to have married such a wonderful man, but that wonderful husband of mine is my webmaster.  Tim has worked tirelessly to continue making my web site the best.  We have received several kind comments regarding the recent addition of our Subdivision/Neighborhood maps. Our maps incorporate built-in custom-searches of our local Huntsville MLS. We are especially grateful for the links we received from Tips and Answers, City Data, and Topix. 
To improve this functionality, we have made a 2nd pass at incorporating the Google Map option for searching the Huntsville Alabama MLS and several improvements … (6 comments)

huntsville alabama mls: Finding your Huntsville Dream Home – Part II - 11/08/08 07:05 AM
In a previous blog post we discussed the first steps involved in finding your Huntsville Alabama Dream Home and provided links to research and discuss the area, neighborhoods, schools, and other community information.
Once you have focused your search to your favorite areas or school districts, you are ready to begin looking at online listings of available homes. By now, you probably have a few favorite neighborhoods. However it is not uncommon that your search may likely be conducted over a period of months or longer, especially if you are in the process of relocating.  Driving through neighborhoods is always best.  In doing … (5 comments)

huntsville alabama mls: Northern Alabama MLS Rolling out of my new web site! - 10/21/08 04:54 AM
As many of you know, my husband Tim, is my webmaster.  I am SO darned lucky to have such a wonderful husband and talented, gifted engineer in my life.  Because of his endless hard work, I am now the proud owner of THE FIRST public website to utilize the North Alabama Multiple Listing Service (NALMLS) Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS) feed, here in Huntsville!  Thanks honey, for working so hard for me. I am so proud of you!  Tim wrote this letter to thank all of our supportive subscribers.
                                
First of all we would like to thank all of our … (8 comments)

huntsville alabama mls: Huntsville Alabama's First Public RETS MLS Search Engine!!! Brought to you by Huntsville Alabama Real Estate - 07/21/08 11:43 AM
Well the day has finally arrived! We have been working diligently behind the scenes for the last 2 ½ months on replacing our MLS gateway solution with a new RETS based database solution.
What is RETS you ask? The Real Estate Transaction Standard (RETS) is a new web-services protocol standard that facilitates the exchange of data between Multiple Listing Services (MLS) and Brokers/Associates. The current Internet Data Exchange (IDX) system is not a standard at all and in fact one of the main problems with the current system is that it is often proprietary to a particular MLS. RETS will solve … (6 comments)