Property Listings Non-mls

[angela_rey]

Thank you

I usually update the page after spending all day with 3 small kids around midnight when they are asleep. Sometimes I make mistakes!

I'm going to give it a try with the classifieds. I know when I was an agent, investors had a ton of properties that were always for sale, if you knew the right person.

Hopefully this will give a chance for the person working on the big deals to get sell the small deals.

[behnkem]

Using a MySQL database shouldn't be too challenging if you know some PHP and MySQL (or find a good book). You could have the listings only display if you approved them, and allow anyone to submit a listing (the script could email you when a new one is added). This would accomplish two things - you eliminate the spammy ads since you never approve those listings, and you could use this to allow the listing to show up after payment has cleared, and to take it back down after it's listing term. Plus, the info stays in the database, so if the investor wants to put it back online with another payment, they don't have to resubmit it, just pay you and you flip it back to approved, and it shows back up again.

I did this on a hobby website I built to allow people to say that they would like to be state coordinators for the hobby, and then after deciding who the state coordinator would be, I just enabled the y/n option for coordinator for that person. If Y, then they showed up as the coordinator for the state, if N, they didn't. The default was N, of course.

I didn't even bother to code a back-office with login and such, I just editted the database directly using PHPAdmin, which probably comes with your web host as well since you have MySQL access. It's a little more dangerous to edit the database directly, since you can't build in extra safeguards, but as long as you are the only one accessing it and you are careful, it works just fine.

[webmaster]

If you need help with this, let us know, I could adapt the system we have at rentalproperties.ca for you

[Bob Crain]

Hello,

It's been awhile since I posted here. I am no longer an agent, moved to another state and just going to work on the investing side. I have a new website www.ratraceclub.com it is a club that focuses on Cashflow 101 & 202 from Rich Dad. What I am trying to figure out is how I can had property listings from the investors in our club. I would like to have a page called "Properties" and then have a list of the properties for sale by other investors. I guess I can just do a static page. My web hosting has SQL database. I just wonder what would be the best approach for that. I'm also not sure how much to charge for the listing. there are no membership costs to join the club.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Angela

Angela,

I would suggest taking a look at the many FSBO websites out there. There are a Few companies that build these sites for "non real estate agents" and when I was just a loan officer I looked into building and or buying one.

The company I was most interested in has a three tier system which consisted of a free listing, a $49.00 option that included one picture, and the full listing. The full listing was around $149.99 and included up to 8 pictures and posting the link to many of the on line free listing services...

If I were you I would insulate yourself by forming some type of corporate entity. I would also check with your new state about what type of license you may need to run this type of business.

Good luck

P.S. You should also hook up with a local realtor. The Stats show that 96% of FSBO's fail to sell their homes themselves. Maybe you could sell the leads to area realtors or provide some type of paid advertising on your new site?

[berryman77]

I'm looking to do something similar, allow property owners or real estate agents to list on my website. I'm not a licensed agent or broker, just a programmer with an idea and motive. Would this act require a license?