Comments on: How vital is internet access? http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/03/08/how-vital-is-internet-access/ Tracking Charlottesville's Real Estate Market since 2005 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:50:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jim Duncan http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/03/08/how-vital-is-internet-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4503 Jim Duncan Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:14:12 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/03/08/how-vital-is-internet-access/#comment-4503 Matt - Thank you for visiting and commenting. I look to your company continually as a market leader. Now <em>that</em> is an interesting thought. Now to see if Embarq (sprint) and Comcast/Adelphia might be able to make that happen. --Jim Matt –

Thank you for visiting and commenting. I look to your company continually as a market leader.

Now that is an interesting thought. Now to see if Embarq (sprint) and Comcast/Adelphia might be able to make that happen.

–Jim

]]> By: Matt Cohen http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/03/08/how-vital-is-internet-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4502 Matt Cohen Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:38:36 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/03/08/how-vital-is-internet-access/#comment-4502 Information put into the fields (ideally a broadband y/n, then a text field with service descriptions) will only be as good as what the Realtor knows. Worse yet, this is information that changes over time (especially in a slower market). So, ideally, the MLS would work with local broadband providers to integrate with web services with information about the connection available to the home. Active listings could be regularly updated via this mechanism. That way the information would always be both as correct as reported by the provider and kept up to date. Information put into the fields (ideally a broadband y/n, then a text field with service descriptions) will only be as good as what the Realtor knows. Worse yet, this is information that changes over time (especially in a slower market). So, ideally, the MLS would work with local broadband providers to integrate with web services with information about the connection available to the home. Active listings could be regularly updated via this mechanism. That way the information would always be both as correct as reported by the provider and kept up to date.

]]> By: Stefan Swanepoel http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/03/08/how-vital-is-internet-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4049 Stefan Swanepoel Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:59:25 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/03/08/how-vital-is-internet-access/#comment-4049 Seldom has the introduction of a single strategy been as important as the Internet. Today almost every single facet of real estate brokerage being attacked, altered or replaced with technology. The totality of technology and the Internet unquestionably has the combined power to fundamentally change the real estate industry. Seldom has the introduction of a single strategy been as important as the Internet. Today almost every single facet of real estate brokerage being attacked, altered or replaced with technology. The totality of technology and the Internet unquestionably has the combined power to fundamentally change the real estate industry.

]]> By: TrvlnMn http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/03/08/how-vital-is-internet-access/comment-page-1/#comment-3900 TrvlnMn Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:32:10 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/03/08/how-vital-is-internet-access/#comment-3900 Before I moved here from out of state, knowing I would be losing a lot of things about large cities that I love. I checked with the phone company to make sure the place I was renting had a high speed internet option. Ironically cable wasn't an option but DSL was. Right now internet is a requirement for me (that might not always be the case however). I don't pay for cable or Direct Tv, and only get NBC29 via antenna (and the reception is spotty at best) and I'm no fan of the local stations. I also enjoy non-music radio, get poor local reception, and like to listen to several stations in other states (and countries) that I can only get online. So internet access is where I spend my "entertainment" dollars. For Example - If you like audio theater KPCC, a public radio station in CA, broadcasts a weekly series called <a href="http://www.scpr.org/programs/latw/" rel="nofollow">"The Plays The Thing"</a> which presents audio versions of 2 hour stage plays (often with well known actors - since they're in L.A.). Live on Friday and available with realplayer the rest of the week. Then the BBC has several weekly series <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/friday_play.shtml?focuswin" rel="nofollow">the Friday Play</a>, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/saturday_play.shtml" rel="nofollow">the Saturday Play,</a> and several others <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/afternoon_play.shtml" rel="nofollow">Monday thru Thursday</a>. Before I moved here from out of state, knowing I would be losing a lot of things about large cities that I love. I checked with the phone company to make sure the place I was renting had a high speed internet option. Ironically cable wasn’t an option but DSL was. Right now internet is a requirement for me (that might not always be the case however).

I don’t pay for cable or Direct Tv, and only get NBC29 via antenna (and the reception is spotty at best) and I’m no fan of the local stations. I also enjoy non-music radio, get poor local reception, and like to listen to several stations in other states (and countries) that I can only get online. So internet access is where I spend my “entertainment” dollars.

For Example – If you like audio theater KPCC, a public radio station in CA, broadcasts a weekly series called “The Plays The Thing” which presents audio versions of 2 hour stage plays (often with well known actors – since they’re in L.A.). Live on Friday and available with realplayer the rest of the week. Then the BBC has several weekly series the Friday Play, the Saturday Play, and several others Monday thru Thursday.

]]> By: The MLS of the future | Rain City Guide | A Seattle Real Estate Blog... http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/03/08/how-vital-is-internet-access/comment-page-1/#comment-3855 The MLS of the future | Rain City Guide | A Seattle Real Estate Blog... Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:16:35 +0000 http://www.realcentralva.com/2007/03/08/how-vital-is-internet-access/#comment-3855 [...] The MLS of the future March 8, 2007 Recently, the Center for Realtor Technology and Jim Duncan’s Real Central VA had blog posts on the desire to have MLSs’ add another column to their schema that indicated the broadband access status of a property. I think this is an idea whose time has been a long time coming. When I moved from my old home in Carnation to my new home in Issaquah, the new owner of my old house wanted to know everything I could tell him about the home’s local ISP (I believe he was a network engineer). Similarly, one of the major reasons I moved into my current home, was that it had bandwidth to spare (my ISP’s top of the line plan is currently 8 M download / 2 M upload speeds). In the Emerald City or the Bay Area, this information is probably second in importance only to the list price of a home or its location. Simply put, a home’s high speed internet capabilities is an increasingly important factor in your purchasing decision. [...] [...] The MLS of the future March 8, 2007 Recently, the Center for Realtor Technology and Jim Duncan’s Real Central VA had blog posts on the desire to have MLSs’ add another column to their schema that indicated the broadband access status of a property. I think this is an idea whose time has been a long time coming. When I moved from my old home in Carnation to my new home in Issaquah, the new owner of my old house wanted to know everything I could tell him about the home’s local ISP (I believe he was a network engineer). Similarly, one of the major reasons I moved into my current home, was that it had bandwidth to spare (my ISP’s top of the line plan is currently 8 M download / 2 M upload speeds). In the Emerald City or the Bay Area, this information is probably second in importance only to the list price of a home or its location. Simply put, a home’s high speed internet capabilities is an increasingly important factor in your purchasing decision. [...]

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