The Secret to a Successful AND Convenient Home Search...

One of the ways I'm different from other Real Estate Agents is that I zealously integrate technology into my services in order to make your search for a home more efficient and effective! Another way I differ is that I subscribe to the "teach a man to fish" philosophy. Buyers who work with me are better equipped to succeed because I encourage and enable them to become knowledgeable about the procedures and players involved in real estate transactions. And I diligently provide analyses and summaries of current real estate trends in their target neighborhoods. Below are the suite of Home Search Tools that I provide that you can use to optimize your real estate search and to become a savvy real estate consumer.

Self Serve MLS Search
Some people are die-hard do it yourselfers who just love the thrill of the hunt! My no registration, no questionnaire required Self Serve MLS Search Interface lets you surf available listings in Salt Lake County to your heart's content! You have the flexibility to vary your search criteria, there are links to property photos and tours (assuming the listing agent provided them to the MLS), and you can save properties to a "favorites" type list for easy reference later when it's time to show your significant other the houses that excited you!

Zero In on your next home with E-Listings Alert Service
You give us your home criteria, and we email you the matching MLS listings. You select the frequency and types of reports you want to receive via email. There are two ways to use this service. If you are an active buyer "in the market", you'll want to receive new listing updates on either an hourly or daily basis. If you are in the early stages of preparing to buy a home, it's sufficient to select weekly updates. Unlike other Listing Notification Services, we give you the option to sign up for both New/Updated property notification AND sold property notification. The two together give you valuable market trend information that can help you to gauge the purchasing power of your home buying dollars. The service is totally free and available to anyone regardless of how close you are to being ready to move. Just fill out our detailed questionnaire to let us know what you are looking for in your next home, and the available homes in the Wasatch Front MLS that are matches for your criteria will be delivered to your inbox!

Exploring Neighborhoods: Neighborhood Summaries and Market Activity Updates
We got tired of all the regurgitated, outsourced neighborhood info that was out there. It is my business to know the neighborhoods I serve! I'm in the process of expanding ExploringNeighborhoods.com to become a very personal, 'insider' look at your Salt Lake City neighborhood options.

I provide easy to understand neighborhood summaries of Available vs. Sold Residential Properties to help you become familiar with price trending and dollar purchasing power in your target neighborhoods. When a great deal comes along, you will recognize it and be able to take advantage! This market data is more useful than most of the other widely available reports for 3 reasons:

• Our reports are produced monthly, instead of quarterly. Data based on "last quarter" is too stale to be useful to you when it comes time to pounce on a great deal.
• In certain cases I produce reports based on neighborhoods, as well as zip codes. If a Zip Code is too broad of an area, the usefulness of the data is diluted.
• Reliable Reporting! Some other sources have good intentions of updating and distributing their market reports, but they get busy with other things and don't deliver. Or they rely on external data crunching service providers to serve up their market information (and may or may not be able to interpret what it means!). I actually statistically review and analyze the report data myself. I have a degree in Engineering and understand statistics and numbers -- both what is useful and reliable about them, and, more importantly, what is not. I also have an in-house Real Estate Assistant who makes certain that these reports are up-to-date and made available via email an on my website in a timely manner!

Buyer Education and Resource Center: www.SaltLakeHomeBuyer.com
By completing our online Guided Home Buyer Course, you will become a force for Home Sellers to reckon with! Many hopeful homebuyers try to get a "real estate education" by spending days, or even weeks getting lost and overwhelmed by the data deluge of real estate information that is available on the internet. Feel free to do that, if you are an information junkie -- but when you are ready to get the most bang for your buck when you buy a home, take our laser-focussed Guided Home Buyer Course. To help encourage you to complete the series, there are opportunities scattered throughout the course to earn additional entries in my annually awarded Pay-No-Commission Giveaway!

The SLC Home Search Dashboard! Register for Free Access | View Screenshots of Dashboard
The SLC Home SEARCH Dashboard brings all of the above tools together on a single page to simplify and optimize your Home Search time spent. I provide the SLC Home Search Dashboard to registered users so that they can benefit from a laser-focussed and systematic method to manage both their home search and their home buyer education effectively. This one-stop center is a lifesaver for those of you who get distracted easily and end up wandering off into the web and those of you who suffer from "data deluge syndrome" - the overwhelmed feeling you get from finding TOO MUCH (and often conflicting) information than you can process reasonably. In addition to all of the above tools, the Search Dashboard will display any local or national news that impacts our local real estate market.

So -- that's what you can use for free, and without the obligation of being a Buyer Client.

Once you are my client, you are automatically upgraded to a Buyer Client Dashboard.
It includes all of the tools above, PLUS

Agent-Assisted Armchair Previewing
A huge time saver for all you busy, hard-working types!! Only about a third of agents who list properties take the time to provide adequate photos to showcase the property. So you may find a home in the MLS that seems to match your criteria, and that is in your price range, only to be disappointed in the condition or features of the property AFTER having made babysitting and or time off work arrangements to go and see it. Pictures that allow you to preview and shortlist (or pass over) a home are worth 1000 wasted trips to view a property in person! If a home has sparked your interest, but there is only an exterior property photo, or not enough photos to help you armchair preview it, we will send our photographer to snap quality photos and send you a virtual tour to preview! This service is available to Buyers who have signed a Buyer Representation Agreement and have undergone pre-approval.

Online Checklists and Forms
In this day and age, anything that can be delivered digitally to you, should! Of course there will be some forms that just have to be signed and/or gone over in person, but whenever possible we will save you time by delivering to you via your Personalized Buyer Client Dashboard.

Summary of Homes Viewed
...including updates when their prices change! So maybe you liked a property, but it was just a tad out of your price range. A month down the road, when the sellers have become a little more motivated, the price will drop down to where it's just right for you, and BAM! You'll know about it!

Online Text to Agent (and other communication tools)
One of the most widespread complaints about Real Estate Agents is that they are "hard to get hold of" or "don't return their calls". The "hard to get hold of" complaint is quasi-justifiable: Agents are on the road, in meetings (showings, consultations and closings), and on the phone a LOT. So it really isn't anything personal if you end up at voicemail. However, the "don't return their calls" complaint is INEXCUSABLE.

You will NEVER have that complaint about me. First -- I utilize text messaging so that you can ALWAYS get a message to me, urgently if need be, by sending me a text. Texts are silent when I get them, so even if I'm with another client I can receive your message without having to rudely interrupt. (That will be nice for you too when I'm focussing on your needs!) With the "Send a Text to Agent" button in your client dashboard, you don't have to have any special phone equipment or knowledge to text me - it's as simple as: type and send! Second, you have my absolute word that I, or my assistant will return every message that we receive (phone, email, or text) that requires a response either the same or next business day.