{"id":9508,"date":"2009-08-13T23:57:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T06:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9508"},"modified":"2009-10-04T06:13:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T13:13:31","slug":"hey-zillow-hey-trulia-hey-smarteragent-heres-what-i-really-want-in-a-smart-phone-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9508\/hey-zillow-hey-trulia-hey-smarteragent-heres-what-i-really-want-in-a-smart-phone-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Zillow, hey Trulia, hey SmarterAgent: Here’s what I really want in a smart-phone app…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not for me — for our lenders<\/em>…<\/p>\n

Until lately, lenders and title people never really lived in our world. You could get ’em on the phone all day long — so long as it wasn’t Sunday, so long as it wasn’t 9:30 at night.<\/p>\n

That’s changing, thank goodness, especially with lenders.<\/p>\n

But: If I need a Loan Status Report (that’s Arizonan for a pre-qual form) at 9:30 on a Sunday night, I need it.<\/p>\n

So here’s what I want for one (or more) of y’all to make for lenders:<\/p>\n

1. Give them whatever kind of pre-qual calculator they need — with internet access, of course.<\/p>\n

2. At the lender’s option, issue the pre-qual information in any extant state association of Realtors form, along with something generic and an auto-generated cover letter.<\/p>\n

3. Email as a PDF or send an e-page with a URL to a PDF on your server.<\/p>\n

As dumb as these forms are, and as perniciously useless as they sometimes can be, it’s getting to be impossible, in Arizona at least, to submit a contract without one.<\/p>\n

So: If you would, please make it easy for lenders to make loan commitments.<\/p>\n

Feel free to charge ’em for the app, of course. We all know they’re loaded… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not for me — for our lenders… Until lately, lenders and title people never really lived in our world. You could get ’em on the phone all day long — so long as it wasn’t Sunday, so long as it wasn’t 9:30 at night. That’s changing, thank goodness, especially with lenders. 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