Elizabeth Kaplan's (lizkaplan) Blog

A number of years ago, my brother and I were out for a Sunday drive when we stumbled upon this absurd property for sale. We couldn't really see much of the house itself because it was set quite far back from the road with a fair amount of foliage obscuring the view. We could, however, tell that i...

On another blog, Larry Szolosi, a Listingbook member from Fort Myers, Florida, gave a fantastic example of how Listingbook works for the agent. With his permission, I am reposting his example below: "Our MLS had a lot of features that most people did not use or didn't even know they existed. Then...

As a new ActiveRain member, I have yet to completely explore all of the site's features. Not by a long shot. I have, however, become fairly acquainted with the points sustem that seems to somehow spur me on in a rather unexpected manner. I feel a bit like a child at Chuck E. Cheese's trying to ea...

This video, created by a Listingbook user, shows how to add a Listingbook focus box to your own website in order to easily direct people to your Listingbook sign up page. It's a very cool user tip! http://clearwaterkw.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/how-to-add-a-listingbook-focus-box/ ***I should clarif...

Check out this article about Listingbook from Friday's New York Times: The Web As Real Estate Trove I plan on posting something with more content later today. I just got back from Kiawah, South Carolina, and I must say to those of you from South Carolina, WOW! What a beautiful State!

I found this fact on the Associated Content website and thought it was quite interesting. Even better, it relates in a roundabout way to the only kind of real estate that I've ever personally bought or sold (the Monopoly kind): The game board streets in original Monopoly are named after streets i...

I've recently learned that Listingbook will be holding agent Lift Off sessions for Northstar MLS members in Minnesota! I believe that Listingbook has been up and running in the Twin Cities area for a couple of months now, but in mid-September we will be officially launching Listingbook in MN. As ...

Driving to work this morning, I suddenly realized that I was about five miles away from completey running out of gas. This doesn't happen all that often. I tend to be pretty careful about checking how much I have left, and I usually don't like going under a quarter of the tank. I pulled into the ...

Perhaps this is already common knowledge, but I recently learned that there is now a major dispute over which illness actually caused Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralysis. For many years (since the initial diagnosis), it has been believed that FDR suffered from paralytic poliomyelitis (polio), which...

Listingbook is launching in Northern Florida! If you're a member of NEFMLS, starting next Wednesday you'll be able to sign up for a free Listingbook account. We've had beta agents using the system since early July and have been receiving fantastic feedback from them. So, if you're in Jacksonville...