Virtual Earth IDX Developer

[Realtor Spud]

Does anyone out there know any companies or individual web developers that are able to use virtual earth with IDX. I am very interested in finding someone. I already contacted Real Tech and they already have an exclusive contract with John L Scott in my area. These guys put together the best website I have seen so far for doing MLS searches from a consumer's point of view. It is a sweet program. I think that this map based search is going to be huge.

I would really appreciate any referrals. Thanks

[webmaster]

We could help you, what MLS board are you a member of? Do you already have your datafeed?

[Realtor Spud]

I am a member of Intermountain MLS in Boise, ID. I don't have a data feed yet.

[webmaster]

I have the boise IDX feed, I will check and make sure the appropriate address information is in there for mapping, I believe it is because Matt Newbill did it over at Genious Realty (Please don't fall to much in love with his system as he put hundreds of hours into it - unless of course you have an unlimited budget

[Realtor Spud]

What does "unlimited" mean. Let me know what you think. Thanks

[webmaster]

typical IDX coding time is between $1500-$3000 with us start to finish, however genious realty is not a "typical IDX" - there is a lot more that you can't see going on that makes it do what it does - I would imagine if someone wanted to duplicate something similar and to that quality you would be looking at 20k+

[Realtor Spud]

That is pretty cheap. Just kidding.

[Memphis]

Not trying to hijack a thread---but I like the look and feel of the IDX you did on Marc's site better than Genius'. The talk by phone feature is cool, but....... I guess I really like the "Condo" features and what not on Marc's for customer satisfaction.

Take a look at this IDX system Spud and see what you think. I have an order in for a similar one.

http://www.thesarasotamls.com/gmap.php

[Realtor Spud]

I really like that site too. Who did that one? I would love to have a site like that for my area. Who does them??

[Memphis]

The folks right here......REW (Real Estate Webmasters). They built my site and are currently working on my IDX solution. You really can't beat it for SEO friendly site building and the best looking and most customer friendly IDX programming (yes you can get them separate).

Look to the right of the screen and take a look at "Featured REW clients", and click on a few peoples website that participate in the forum (like mine) and compare to others.

Good luck, just a friendly plug for REW.

P.S.- I spent 3 months at 30 hours a week researching website builders, hosters, programmers, etc---this is where I parked, nuff said.