My new Seattle home has a perfect Walk Score! Thanks for sharing this great service Sara.  Now I know all the cool stuff around my house.

 

Via Sara Bonert:

Walkscore is an incredible website for learning what individual neighborhoods have to offer within walking distance.  Personally, living in Chicago, it is very important to me because my husband and I only have one car and he takes it to work everyday, leaving me to get places either by foot or bike.  But my home has a walkscore of 91 (out of 100), so it isn't a problem. 

This weekend I was at a cook out of some friends who recently had a child.  This live in a condo in the hip neighborhood of Roscoe Village(their condo has a walkscore of 90).  But now with child, you know where this conversation is headed, they decided its time to head to the burbs. 

My friend was telling me how she spends hours online looking at homes and school district information, which wasn't a surprise to me.  But I was surprised to hear her add "I walkscore every home I am interested in".  Hmmm.... this walkscore site is now becoming so popular is becoming a verb...

This got me thinking, what a cool service it would be if an real estate website was able to put a search field for walkscore in their advanced search capablities.  For examples, if you want to be pretty urban, show me homes with a walkscore of 80-100.  If you want to be more remote, show me homes with a walkscore of 0-20.  Walkscore does have some open source code posted on their site, I am not sure it is enough to create a search filter with yet.  If someone could figure this search out, could be a pretty cool reason to use your site verses another agent's in town. 

 

11 Comments on My Walkscore is 100%

AUG
11
2008
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This is pretty cool as ours is on the WORST side. LOL

4:07pm • #1
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Great, our score is only 20! Better move... I did notice the we have a restaurant around that I wasn't aware of... better go try it out. I like the site. Thanks for sharing. ~Rita

4:15pm • #2
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Oh shirt, I'll bet mine's a 0.  I have to go check this out.

4:17pm • #3
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haha - it's a 2.  I can walk to Twin Falls and get a sugar cane juice.

4:19pm • #4
695,326 Points 72 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Wow!  Does Sara know what a big deal we all think it would be to have Jonathan Washburn reblog one of our posts!  Pretty cool!

4:57pm • #5

Jon- this is just some crazyiness...I am loving the initial results in from reblogging.  Maybe now everyone will be happy about it?!?

5:14pm • #6
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interesting Jonathan, thanks.   I'm still looking for you on messenger, lol

6:54pm • #7
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You must live in a HAPPENING area! :)

Thanks for the reblogging love.  And congratulations on inviting an out-of-the-box blog marketing tool that can help people reach audiences they never would have otherwise. It will be interesting to watch what type of viral effort this will have on certain people and posts.  Reputation management just became that much more important. 

I look forward to watching how people use this new system.  Best to you!  Sara

8:50pm • #8
141,326 Points 8 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog Hit Router

This is an excellent way to reblog - present the idea, expand on it by using the information in it, then the original post.  Very well done.  I guess it pays to think before you throw something out there!

10:41pm • #9
AUG
12
2008
5 Featured Posts

Perhaps I am missing something incredibily obvious or beyond my mental grasp, but isn't reblogging verbatim actuall stealing someone's content?  A link, brief excerpt, or similar trackback would be appropriate, but to grab the netire content and repost it (even with a link) just seems like theft to me.  Please shine the light on me.

4:38pm • #10
SEP
08
2008

I am thrilled to know about this website.  What a great tool for out of town buyers to use when evaluating new and unfamiliar neighborhoods!  Thank you for sharing this information!

11:34pm • #11

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