One request, I would love to be able to search by county.

This is ‘Jake’ again. Since housing prices are dropping and probably will be for quite some time, how about doing a similar wiki search engine for rental properties? Especially since rentals are popular here in the DC area.

Include such info as how much the property rented for the last time it was rented, including other rentals in the neighborhood.

Call it FranklyRental.com

Let me know if it is quirky.

Also you can add the word townhouse to see only House type= townhouse.

(test this out by searching also for: -townhouse to make sure an agent hasn’t mis-listed their home)

Frank

Jake,
As for the sorting, we do have sorting for most columns using the drop down. I would like to have header sorting. There are 2 ways to do this. 1) by only sorting the homes on the 1 page (up to 150 homes). That would be easy.

2) A harder solution is sorting (by column header) for each of the 10-15 pages of data 2,000+ homes.

SO I might just have both. Keep the scroll to sort ALL, and use the header to sort just the page.

I’ll look into taking out the street #. Remember you can always add that street name or subdivision to the search to get just that.

As for photo title, I guess I could do this. But with all the other more important stuff like getting sold data and previous pricing history of a relisted property, I don’t know if it will make it up the list. Does one really need to know that a Kitchen is a “Kitchen.”

As for jumping directly, I was considering that for the MLS#

Have you added any reviews? Added photo albums yet?

Frank

http://photosynth.net/

Great site – love it. Two suggestions:

- mris.com has titles (”Bedroom #2″) and comments (occasionally) for each photo. Include that data with each photo.

- (a) Have the spreadsheet columns be sortable both ascending and descending. (I use tablestools firefox extension to do this currently, but it would be cool to have the page do it naturally)
(b) Once (a) is done, separate the address column into two columns – one for the house number and other for the street. Sorting on address is useless because of the house number. Sorting on street is very useful. Often times I see multiple properties on the same street and I want to see those properties grouped together.

- I’m still debating in my head if I like this idea… If there is only one result after a search query, immediately go to that property’s page rather than displaying a one item spreadsheet. Perhaps just for mls number queries.

Frank

Since the person can also elimiate those that are also under the sq. ft. they are looking for, it helps to either include or exclude all homes where the agents put the sq. ft.

It reminds me of the plamsa TV selections on Circuit City and Best Buy web sites. They have numerous filters to help reduce the customers selection in order to help them select the right TV by allowing them to include or exclude other TVs.

For example they filter resolution (1080p), refresh rate (120Hz, 480Hz, etc), screen size, etc., to enable them to find the TV right for them.

And, if eliminating units (at least those marked by the agents) under a certain size provides the person with a better list for them, then it would be helpful. :-)

As for sold data, yeah very cool. I will think about the sold price. People won’t search by it, but they might want to sort by it to see which homes are selling for less. Also it can give you a snapshot view if homes in an area are less or more than 2004 or 2005.

Maybe I can do it with a mouseover, or let the column collapse if you dont want it.

As for helping you, you just hit on my next blog post.

Has to do with a couple that was looking for months on their own. They also were a blog reader and wanted to use me. They found a place and weren’t able to get a hold of me in 1 hour and just wrote the contract with a random Open House agent…

So my point is, email me offline, and don’t just wait for the last second.