{"id":9363,"date":"2009-07-30T20:28:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T03:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9363"},"modified":"2009-07-31T10:11:11","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T17:11:11","slug":"realbirds-free-idx-alternative-eeeeeaaaaahhhhaahhhhahhhhhhah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9363\/realbirds-free-idx-alternative-eeeeeaaaaahhhhaahhhhahhhhhhah\/","title":{"rendered":"Realbird&#8217;s Free IDX Alternative: (Eeeee&#8230;.aaaaahhhh&#8230;aahhhhahhhhhhah)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>I just recently realized that <a href=\"http:\/\/realbird.com\">Realbird<\/a> offers the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8628\">syndication based total IDX solution on the cheap for Real Estate Agents that I was talking about here a little while back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Considering the whole MIBOR thing that went down a few months back, here below is how we might expect some local MLS board officials to be reacting to the product?<\/p>\n<p>\n[Click to play obnoxious but hilarious vid in new tab\/window&#8230;.]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/houseyourmom.com\/2009\/07\/31\/real-estate-boards-react-to-free-real-estate-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click Here to Play Movie\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"401\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/picture-23.png\" alt=\"picture-23\" title=\"picture-23\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/picture-23.png 500w, https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/picture-23-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Caption: Local Boards React To Free Real Estate Data For Real Estate Agents<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<br \/>\nShouldn&#8217;t the freak of nature that is a free, framable, &#8220;google based&#8221; solution for displaying all that precious real estate property data have a whole lotta folks up in arms somewhere? <\/p>\n<p>Oh well&#8230;doesn&#8217;t matter. Dead horse maybe&#8230; The important thing is this. I found a relevant way to share that video. <\/p>\n<p>That and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Realbird search can likely replace your current idx solution, and is pretty darn feature rich for the money. An ad supported version is free, and to remove ads and allow tight, framable integration with your website costs an easy $99\/year (That\u2019s $99\/12 per month, if you\u2019re doing the math.)<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I know&#8230; it\u2019s not every listing in the local MLS system. Even though <a href=\"http:\/\/realbird.com\" title=\"idx vendor alternative = Realbird.Com\">Realbird\u2019s property search<\/a> results appear to be limited to what\u2019s available in google base, it&#8217;s enough in my opinion. All our search page needs to do these days is keep my visitors engaged for a while until they fall into one of our nifty lead capture traps, right?  I\u2019d argue that the day has pretty much arrived when a 3rd party providing a partially complete snapshot of local real estate market inventory based on data provided by syndication partners is pretty much as good as what most fully populated with local board data idx solutions have to offer. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>To see what I mean, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/centralpaliving.com\/york-lancaster-mls-search\">Central Pa\u2019s cheapest and arguably most comprehensive Real Estate Search <\/a>portal at Central Pa Living.Com.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>And keep in mind just a few of the features on that page which the local board prohibits from being displayed on that page:<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The ability to display property description remarks within the listings! <\/li>\n<li>RSS feeds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9363\/realbirds-free-idx-alternative-eeeeeaaaaahhhhaahhhhahhhhhhah\/#more-9363\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; I just recently realized that Realbird offers the syndication based total IDX solution on the cheap for Real Estate Agents that I was talking about here a little while back. &#160; Considering the whole MIBOR thing that went down a few months back, here below is how we might expect some local MLS board [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":707,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/707\/ask-not-for-whom-the-mls-toils\/","url_meta":{"origin":9363,"position":0},"title":"Ask not for whom the MLS toils . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 28, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"...it toils for brokers. 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