Comments on: dsSearchAgent IDX ♥’s Walk Score

By: Jay Valento - Long Beach Real Estate

Jay Valento - Long Beach Real Estate — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:04:10 +0000

My clients comment on the Walk Score all the time.

By: The Diverse Solutions Blog » Blog Archive » Walk Score now takes the Bus (or Subway)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:07:50 +0000

[...] to the Walk Score product. We incorporated Walk Score in our product a long time ago, read about it here, and the feedback from our clients has been great. Now every time somebody looks for a home using [...]

By: Derec Shuler

Derec Shuler — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:26:07 +0000

This is a great feature. I know I’ve been after your sales and support to include this since our MLS rolled out this feature on their public site in January. This is an even better implementation than I expected!

By: Andrew Mattie

Andrew Mattie — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:33:10 +0000

@Jay: That IS helpful. We spent a very long time trying to make sure that our description matching algorithm can handle stuff like that, but we didn’t do a good enough job trying to match where the “not” has some asterisks or other characters around it. In other words, we’ll skip over stuff where it says “NOT a foreclosure,” but we weren’t properly handling it if it said “***NOT*** a foreclosure.” We can definitely build that into our system though so that it fixes all of the existing listings that have descriptions like that and handles them properly in the future. Thanks for the tip.

By: Search Phoenix Homes by Walk Score — The Phoenix Real Estate Guy

Search Phoenix Homes by Walk Score — The Phoenix Real Estate Guy — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:41:53 +0000

[...] to the developers at Diverse Solutions, you can now search for Phoenix homes right here on the Phoenix Real Estate Guy blog by “walk [...]

By: Jay Thompson

Jay Thompson — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:19:10 +0000

Andrew – Good point. One of my own listings is currently being flagged as a short sale (because we put “not a short sale” in the description) even though it isn’t.

That listing is here if it helps.

By: Matt Cohen

Matt Cohen — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:07:37 +0000

Having businesses in my neighborhood that I could walk to was very important to me when selecting my home – kudos for appreciating that the home choice is sometimes about more than just property characteristics and price.

By: Andrew Mattie

Andrew Mattie — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:24:50 +0000

@Jay: Actually, before we officially launched the short sale / foreclosure feature, we did have the “exclude” option available. The problem though was that, even though our short sale / foreclosure description anayzer is over 99.5% accurate, we were concerned about the ramifications of excluding legitmate properties based on that parser. Knowing that, what are your thoughts on the issue?

By: Jay Thompson

Jay Thompson — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:11:18 +0000

I like it. The more ways to search the better.

For your next trick, PLEASE implement a way to EXCLUDE short sales and foreclosures. It’s great that users can search for just these distressed properties, but many want to be able to leave them OUT of search results.

By: Bruce Lemieux

Bruce Lemieux — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:26:42 +0000

To be honest, this looks like fringe functionality to me that will be a value-add to very, very few visitors. It would be interesting to see if agents enable this capability. Would love to see search include counties and purchase vs rent criteria — not very sexy, but far more useful.