Posts from March 6th, 2024

It doesn't feel like I've been in real estate a long time, but I guess 27 years is a while. I do remember when the beach area did not have an MLS, and we would load The Real Estate Connection floppy disk into our only computer for our monthly update. The data was the same all month until the new book came out. If you didn't advertise in the book, your listings were not in the database. My dad remembers before computers when agents would drive to all the real estate offices and hand flyers to all the receptionists. Then, we joined the MLS and had monthly books delivered with black and white photos. Then, we got to use a dial-up connection to load our data through a DOS program in a daily dump. Also, before lockboxes, agents would schedule showings with the various office receptionists who were the keeper of the keys. Before showing property, you had to drive to...

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