Giving away the House for free!

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Real Estate Agent with Real Estate

Welcome to Tee'd Off Tuesday.   Typically when I list a new home I put out an abundance of marketing material but noticed I'm not generating many phone calls.  With my latest listing at 33 Fairlawn Drive in North Haven, CT 06473  I decided not to publish the address as an experiment to see if phone activity increased.

Well, two days after entering the information into our MLS system and making sure I checked "N" so the address would not published by others I see a few sites are giving away the home address of my listing. After a bit of investigation I'm not sure where to place the fault.  Seems the culpret is not the MLS feed but Postlets.com which must have supplied the address to truila.com & Real Estate Shows that is credited with having the property listed at oodle.com

Since my wife is the one that spends her time on Postlets & RSS she may have unknowingly allowed permission to publish the address so at this point I'll just caulk it up to a failed experiment.  Suppose it doesn't really matter if we freely give away the house address anyway..... It isn't really all that difficult to figure out from the map realtor.com provides.

  

To arrange a private showing of this home or any other property in New Haven County  just contact me, Dan Cummings, The Running Realtor via email at Dan@CummingsTeam.com or call my 24 hour access line : 203-672-2455

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Comments (18)

Jennifer Monroe
Savvy + Company Real Estate - Charlotte, NC
Real Estate REALTOR®/Broker in Beautiful Charlotte
Send her to bed without dinner Dano! That'll teach her. That woman is seriously out of control. What kind of husband lets this crap go on under his own roof? That's what I want to know!!!
Mar 18, 2008 03:03 AM
Vickie Nagy
Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate - Palm Springs, CA
Vickie Jean the Palm Springs Condo Queen
Lesson learned. Not all systems have address/no address options. Yet, even with limited control over information I believe that more exposure on the internet is a benefit that we can't ignore.
Mar 18, 2008 03:06 AM
Kevin Robinson
Twin Falls, ID
Fractional Developer

Some agents in my area use the no address technique. I have never tried it, but it seems to work for them.

 

Mar 18, 2008 03:09 AM
Lindsey Hasford
Edina Realty - Elk River, MN
Bringing you home...
Dan - Interesting how you can work around anything! At least you know the results...
Mar 18, 2008 03:10 AM
No Longer Active
Real Estate - Fallon, MT

Jennifer... With her eating habits missing dinner wouldn't teach her much... Maybe I'll withhold sweets!

Vickie... I agree the more exposure the better, just trying to find ways to make sure my phone rings from all the exposure instead of getting lost in the system. 

Kevin... This was my first attempt to experiment with the address. Normally I write a blog with the address in the title so my page comes up on the top spot!  Makes no sense if I don't publish the address and someone else get top billing for their site.

Lindsey... Yes, when there's a will there's a way!

Mar 18, 2008 03:29 AM
Jason Sardi
Auto & Home & Life Insurance throughout North Carolina - Charlotte, NC
Your Agent for Life

Boy am I going to have my hands full with Jennifer....

I wonder how that experiment would of turned out, perhaps you'll have to try it again soon Dano.

Mar 18, 2008 03:47 AM
Jennifer Monroe
Savvy + Company Real Estate - Charlotte, NC
Real Estate REALTOR®/Broker in Beautiful Charlotte
And you have such nice hands too Sardiboy!
Mar 18, 2008 04:36 AM
Sandra Cummings
William Raveis Real Estate - Guilford, CT
Real Estate Agent, Guilford Connecticut
Boy Jennifer...what did I do to tick you off? To bed with no dinner?
Mar 18, 2008 04:43 AM
Jennifer Monroe
Savvy + Company Real Estate - Charlotte, NC
Real Estate REALTOR®/Broker in Beautiful Charlotte
I LOVE my Sandra! Just thought Dano seems a bit annoyed....
Mar 18, 2008 04:53 AM
No Longer Active
Real Estate - Fallon, MT

Jason... Jennifer's bellow is much worse than her bite...... I'll give you pointers it you have trouble keeping her tame!

Sandra... Hope my lunch is ready!

Jennifer...  I know you love to instigate but you're suppose to get me fired up on a subject before Tee'd Off Tuesday so I can passionatley complain about something!

 

Mar 18, 2008 05:00 AM
Joe Gonzalez
CrossCountry Mortgage, LLC NMLS #3029 - King of Prussia, PA
NMLS# 126036 (610) 739-6563

I seriously want to hear your feedback on this experiment. I get different opinions on this all the time from my realtors.

Mar 18, 2008 05:16 AM
Missy Caulk
Missy Caulk TEAM - Ann Arbor, MI
Savvy Realtor - Ann Arbor Real Estate
Dan when we syndicate to a lot of sites, it will happen. Let us know but I bet Sandra left it in on some sites.
Mar 18, 2008 07:10 AM
Mana Tulberg
805 County Real Estate - Camarillo, CA
Real Estate Agent - Camarillo CA

So did she go to bed with no dinner and sweets?!!!!! :0)

Sandra remember this was all Jennifer's idea not mine.

Mar 18, 2008 11:40 AM
George Souto
George Souto NMLS #65149 FHA, CHFA, VA Mortgages - Middletown, CT
Your Connecticut Mortgage Expert
Dan are you feeling OK???  You must be sick iIf this is the best you can do for Tee'd Off Tuesday, because I know you have not mellowed out that much :) :)
Mar 18, 2008 02:24 PM
No Longer Active
Real Estate - Fallon, MT

Joe... Since the address is already out there I most likely won't get many calls asking where the house is located so they can drive by.  Based on my findings yesterday I will probably continue to publish the address everywhere.

Missy... You are most likely correct.

Mana... No,  she had a roasted beast for dinner and cookies for a before bed snack.

George... As I told you way back when..... I've always been the mellow one.. the calming force when others get overly excited with emotionally out of control thinking.

Mar 18, 2008 11:44 PM
George Souto
George Souto NMLS #65149 FHA, CHFA, VA Mortgages - Middletown, CT
Your Connecticut Mortgage Expert

Dan my friend I remember that well, but I am still waiting to see it ............. LOL

Dan I am sure you will find something to get fired up about by next week :) 

Mar 19, 2008 01:41 AM
Janie Coffey
First Coast Sotheby’s International Realty - Ponte Vedra, FL
Uniting Extraordinary Homes w/ Extraordinary Lives
one of the best parts of AR is that we get to see how Real Estate is practced in different parts of the country.  Here in Miami, we don't even have the Y/N address option, all addresses are shown.....
Mar 19, 2008 01:39 PM
Susie Roscoe
Signature Realty Associates - Brandon, FL
Real Estate Specialist | Brandon, FL
Sooo...did you beat her with a wet noodle???  What was the final outcome to this Dan?
Mar 31, 2008 06:24 AM

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