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On the 8th day he invented the internet!

By Darrin Friedman

Real Estate Broker/Owner with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices The Preferred Realty

April 07, 2008 06:27 AM

So say-eth did the Lord! On the 8th day he invented the internet!

Serious question - you ready?

1) What year was it when you signed up for your first email account (and who was the provider?)

2) What year was it when you started paying bills online (and how sick did you feel afterwords knowing that somehow a little green monster inside that behemoth called the internet was going to steal your information)?

3) When did you buy your first house online?

“WHAT!@&*^%!” you said. “What did I ask? Who ever heard of anyone buying a house online?” Well, I’m going to put myself out there. If you live in city A and moving to city B and see a masterful virtual tour with a link to a video tour on YouTube. You speak with a lender, an agent, and put contingencies in that protect you - well, then, why not buy the thing? Am I crazy? Maybe? Would I do it? Probably not - but the fact is not everyone has time, or the capability to be see a home before they put through an offer, and it happens more than you think!

Anyway, just a thought.

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Terry Lynch

LAR Notary and Closing Services - Saint Clair Shores, MI

Darrin

I signed up for my first email account in 1995 with a service called Prodigy. I don't remember when I started online bill paying, its seems like forever.

Apr 07, 2008 06:45 AM

James Downing - Metro DC Houses Team REALTORS®, CRS, GRI, ABR,MRP, MilRes

Real Living | At Home - Washington, DC

When Looking to Buy or Sell - Make the Right Move

Lets see..... AOL back in the early 90s.... maybe '92? Bills.... about '94

A House? Well I am trying to sell a few on line!

Apr 08, 2008 03:34 PM

Tina Farinas

Fusion Real Estate Network, Inc. - Roseville, CA

REALTOR, ABR, GRI, SFR, CHS, e-PRO

It's been a long long time so I can't even tell you the year. But I know my first email was with AOL and I thought that was a BIG one!

Apr 08, 2008 04:53 PM

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Derenda Grubb

David,

It does happen. I had a buyer who did not have time to view my listing while in town. Caught her plane back to California, looked up the house on my website. She had her agent verify that the photos were accurate, submitted an offer and saw the house for the first time, when she flew in to close on the property. The fact that she was extremely computer oriented and was coming to our area to teach at the local university both computer technology and English probably had something to do with her daring. It is not the only time .

Derenda Grubb ABR, GRI, CRS

CENTURY 21 Bessette Realty, Inc.

Lake Charles, Louisiana

Apr 08, 2008 05:05 PM

Patricia Kennedy

RLAH@properties - Washington, DC

Home in the Capital

Darrin you silly man! God did not invent the Internet - Al Gore did!

I opened my first account in about 1995. It was AOL because they had a great cyber-flirt site. I've actually listed houses for several of the guys I met there who've turned into, if not sweeties, at least friends for life!

I came close to buying a house in Houston sight unseen. Then I started to think about all the times I had seen a fabulous virtual tour that had some sort of fatal flow - you know, a condo with an urban view - that would be bricks. Or across the street from an Amoco station (that would actually be a plus for me).

Cheers!

Apr 15, 2008 12:38 PM

Jon Zolsky, Daytona Beach, FL

Daytona Condo Realty, 386-405-4408 - Daytona Beach, FL

Buy Daytona condos for heavenly good prices

We are getting there, ANd it all depends on the ability of the prospect to see the area, the street, the neighborhood. THey can already see the house, but they seill need to know what is around it.

Apr 15, 2008 02:50 PM

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