I just had some outstanding results from requesting a real estate professional to help a friend of mine that I met while in the Marine Corps. 

Norm (my friend) has stayed in the San Diego area and is thinking about starting the home buying process.  I told him that I would get him in touch with my contact out in San Diego  to help him start getting prepared to buy a home.  I had someone in the San Diego area previously that I utilized to keep me up to date on the market conditions and help me whenever one of my in-laws might be thinking of moving.  My wife grew up in PB (Pacific Beach) and we still know a lot of people in Southern California that are close friends or relatives.  Unfortunately, my contact is no longer in the real estate community and I needed to find someone else to help.

I could have used the relocation network within my company, but I wanted to ensure that my new contact was a tech savvy individual to keep me abreast of whatever situations.  Consequently, I used ActiveRain's real estate referral network.

Within 8 hours of posting my request for a real estate agent in the Santee CA area, I had over 30 real estate professionals reply. 

WOW! 

It is definitely a testimonial to the ability of the ActiveRain community to connect real estate professionals with other real estate professionals in a very short period of time.

It is also a sign of how much more tech savvy the real estate agents from Southern California are compared to the real estate agents in Central Minnesota.  I'd bet that there are only a handful of real estate professionals in the St Cloud area that have response times to Internet queries of under 1 day.

Now my dilemma is which agent to choose.

Jason Tangen, GRI - Real Estate Broker Associate with Edina Realty in St Cloud MN

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