I now have a live feed on my site from the Iowa City Area MLS. All the real estate listings you find there now are updated every 15 minutes so you can be sure you have the most current information on homes for sale in the Iowa City area. Previously I was getting my information from Google Base. A great source for real estate, but unfortunately not always accurate. Hence the change. No more stale listings on my site. As soon as an agent enters a new listing or changes the status of a listing on the MLS it will show up on my site 15 minutes later. (This is all part of a service known as IDX that agents sign up for).
Here's a preview of a Search for Homes in Iowa City under $150,000
Nice to be able to write that paragraph. On Monday nothing was working. Today everything's fine. Well, I say fine. That's relative. On Monday I was told my custom site wasn't really a good fit for the new MLS feed and to get the most out of it I would need to move.
Not what I had in mind. Who likes to move at short notice? Sometimes it's necessary though, as I'm sure you know if you've got a job offer and need to move in two weeks. (A situation my son is going through as I write this). Did you put on your resume you're flexible? Now is the time to prove it! Yep, I've moved a lot in my time and as I quickly found out, moving a website is every bit as stressful as moving house! So where am I at now? Well, you know the bit where you've packed everything up, moved it over to the new place and you're standing there surveying all the boxes? I'm sure you do. This is when you stand there and say, "okay, where am I going to put it all?" That's where I'm at. Everything is here, but the place is a mess... So bear with me folks. There are good times ahead. Give me time to "unpack" my new website. I promise it will be worth the wait..
Now off to take a couple of days well earned rest with lots of turkey...Happy Thanksgiving!
originally posted @ ichomesforsale.com
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