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Top 7 Must Have & FREE iPhone Applications for Busy Real Estate Agents

Must Have iPhone Apps for Busy Real Estate Agents

Let me preface this by saying, I am an iPhone evangelist. Love Love Love it. I love finding apps that make my life easier, and as a real estate agent and social marketer, I'm always looking for ways to stay connected and multi-task effortlessly. The release of the iPhone 3G and robust app store have launched real estate agents and brokers into a whole new realm of connectivity.
Here are 7 iPhone applications (according to me :) that can make your life substantially easier.

Trulia Real Estate Search
What it does: Find homes for sale using built-in location finder.
Why it's cool: Tap quick links to see nearby Open Houes today or this weekend.
Find out More: www.trulia.com
Download: Trulia iPhone Application

Where(TM)
What it does: WHERE delivers essential information about what's around you right to your cell phone.
Why it's cool: Partnerships with Starbucks, Gas Buddy and Yelp make this a great tool to help you show off your knowledge of the local area.
Find out More: www.where.com
Download: WHERE iPhone Application

Evernote
What it does: Lets you remember anything and everything that goes on in your real estate career. From notes to ideas to snapshots, put them all into evernote and have them instantly availale from your phone to the web to your desktop.
Why it's cool: Allows you to snap a photo of a business card and it makes the text in those images searchable. Brilliant.
Find out More: www.evernote.com
Download: Evernote iPhone Application

Envirian Mortgage Calculator
What it does: Designed to make quick mortgage calculations based on amount to be borrowed, your monthly income and other expenses
Why it's cool: Allows you to look like a math genius on the fly!
Find out More: http://envirian.com/
Download: 3in1 Mortgage Calculator iPhone Application

Puluwai Real Estate Search
What it does: Quickly search for homes near you or in the town of your choice. View search results in a list on a map, or in a photo gallery.
Why it's cool: Ability to save your favorite properties and share them with your clients via email and contact the seller directly.
Find out More: http://puluwai.com/
Download: Puluwai Real Estate iPhone Application

RulerPhone Lite
What it does: Ever been at a house showing and forgot your tape measure? Now you can use your iPhone as a ruler. You can measure anything.
Why it's cool: Take a picture of an object, measure it up against a credit card and RulerPhone will give you the dimensions!
Find out More: www.benkamens.com
Download: RulerPhone Lite iPhone Application

Expense2Go for Salesforce users
What it does: Allows you to create and sync expense reports from your iPhone
Why it's cool: You have the ability to use your iPhone camera to capture receipts and attach them to the expense record. How cool is that?
Find out More: www.modelmetrics.com
Download: Expense2Go iPhone Application

This of course, is a list of my top 7, however if you have an application that you want to add, leave it in the comments section!

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Chrystie Corns is a real estate agent in Portland, Maine specializing in first time home buyers. She also is a social marketing manager for uLocate Communications (WHERE.com) and full time mother to two darling children.

Posted by Chrystie Corns | Southern Maine Real Estate Agent on 09/29/2008 09:12 PM

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44 Comments on Top 7 Must Have & FREE iPhone Applications for Busy Real Estate Agents

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Chrystie thanks for the information. I am just about to buy a I-phone and it looks better every day.

Great Blog.

Alright...if you're going to hawk the other stuff you have to add one for the guys - Sportacular. Also, check out Loan Shark and Jott when you get a minute.

I've had a Blackberry, Windows Mobile Smartphone but the iPhone beats them all.

I love love this phone, alas, I am in phone bondage with Verizon and can't get it...

Thanks for the tips! I wasn't aware iPhones had this many amazing applications!

Chrystie - I have been holding off buying a iphone but after reading this I will HAVE to get one! Thanks for the great info. Bookmarked for when I get my iphone! ~Rita

Would love to get one, now all they have to do is make it e-key compatable.

Excellent resource and thanks for the tip. I've added a couple to my list of "haves".

Haven't made the switch to an iPhone yet, but appreciate your list of apps. Between a good GPS system and WHERE, agents should really have their areas covered!

Chrystie I live near Otis ANGB on the Cape, Ive been to Maine and around the states in the military like your family. If you ever have any military transferring to mass military bases - Hanscom, Otis, Barnes I would pay a referral fee! Good post by the way! thanks

And to relax - if you have musical ability - you can tap the drum pads on Beatmaker & make your own drum sequences to put you in a trance (or offload & then make them as part of song in Garageband) - or play the many cool games for the Iphone :-) (still trying to figure out Enigma) I like Showtimes to give you movie theaters in your area and what is playing at what time. Or Maracas to shake the maracas when Karaoke singing (enhances the singing) :-) Shazam recognizes any song that is playing nearby - and gives you the name to it if you don't know it.

Counting down the days until my hostage situation with Verizon is resolved.

Chrystie, I had no earthly idea the IPhone would do all these things. I've been trying to decide what phone to purchase and you may have just convinced me. Thank you for all the incredible benefits!

Later in the rain~Deb

thanks for the info -- Am wanting iphone, too . have seen some other great aps also, nice tohave the info re the RE must haves! I just have to find out if I can sync my outlook contacts to it.

Chrystie,

Thank you so much for the Iphone info. I do have an Iphone and i love it even though I did not know about all of your tips. For Alexsandra, yes I know that you can sync your outlook contacts because I did that.

thanks a bunch

linda derusha, remax southland, clayton, nc

Chrystie,

thanks a bunch

linda derusha, remax southland, clayton, nc

Chrystie,

thanks a bunch

linda derusha, remax southland, clayton, nc

SEP

Hi,

Great list for Iphone users, keep up the brilliant work. Very nice to go over the list with us Realtors.

Thanks

Tom Davis

World Class Delaware Realtor

Can the iphone be used as an e-key?

I think I've missed the newest technology. Don't have an I phone. Do I definitely need to consider getting one?

makes me want to buy an I Phone - bummer I just bought a blackberry - bah humbug!

I was starting to think I was getting this tecnology thing and then I ran across this post and boy am I behind times! I seriously need a new phone and was considering a smartphone treo 700p, but it seems like everyone is going away from them now into something else. Then I read above that someone is in verizon lockdown, so am I. That tells me they don't sell the iphone. I need to see how long I am in contract for too.

Stephen,

Yes, I will take you up on that offer if any of our local coastguardsmen transfer to Otis or Woods Hole. My husband and I started out his CG career there and it has always been near and dear to my heart.

To all,

Here are a couple more iPhone apps that a just plain fun (I tell ya I'm obsessed!): I love WhiteNoise, Twitterific (for Twitter), Pandora, Wordpress (for blogging) and Hanoi.

Hi Chrystie-I would love to have an IPhone and do have the Touch. I see you already use Pandora which is so cool. When keyboxes catch up the IPhone will be a must for me. I hope the mapping improves over time as it dosen't work well in rural areas yet.

Someone posted this blog to Digg! Woohoo. Thank you ActiveRainers!

http://digg.com/apple/Top_7_Must_Have_FREE_iPhone_Apps_for_Real_Estate_Agents/who

Hi Chrystie, Wow, I have thought about an Iphone and I am out of contract with Verizon. I have a Treo and have been pretty pleased. I looked at ordering a Blackberry yesterday but would love to try an Iphone.. I read a post here on AR a while back where the guy even took a photo of his airline boarding pass with his Iphone and was able to scan it at the terminal.. Too cool.. Thanks for sharing! God bless,

Great Post! I love the iphone as well and appreciate your thoughts.

Ted

We have always heard about the iphones, now this post has us intrigued.

Chrystie and other Iphone users, How do you like typing emails and texts on the touch screen?? Is it as easy as using actual keys, like the Blackberry & Treos?? I am very curious about that? Thanks and God bless,

Make sure you think about your client base. You don't want to pull out an i phone if you work with a lot of microsoft clients.

Are you trying to tease me? I really really really want an iPhone, but Verizon doesn't offer it yet, and I'm not changing carriers just to get it. Great post and I will be sure to pass it on to my lucky clients who actually have and iPhone!

I also love pageonce and quickvoice, great apps and come in very handy when I am in my car. IPhone rocks.

Wow great, gonna have to go look at some of these apps. I have a couple listed here but haven't used it to its fullest thanks!

I just love my iPhone. My only suggestion is to purchase the apple care package. It is well worth it!

Chrystie could you comment on the expense and monthly costs of owning an IPhone? I heard it was expensive and of course to acces the web there are additional per minute charges?

This article is enough to get me off my duff and into the store to get an iPhone.

Great article, got mine last week and I enjoy the coffee. Trulia and quick voice rock. How many ways can you say LOVE.

Quoting Dan Sullivan:

"Counting down the days until my hostage situation with Verizon is resolved." LOL!

Thanks for the info -- will pass it along to I-Phone users. We can't use I-Phone here where we are as the service will not ring well where we are.

OCT

Stephen - The expense of owning an Iphone is probably a little higer than a normal phone due to its funtionalities. My husband and I are on a family plan with unlimited data and texting for around $200/ month BUT it is a business expense. Keep that in mind.

Cheryl - I've gotten used to the keyboard feature. I had a T-Mobile Dash before which had a nice qwerty keyboard, but once you get used to the iphone keyboard it's pretty easy to navigate.