Wonderful application of screen capture tool to show how easy it is to navigate your website or explain stuff– much easier than writing it all out– visuals often work better than words to communicate “how-tos”

Among the many other screen recorders are Screentoaster.com – free (which will also send it to YouTube, if you like) and Faststone.org ($20 lifetime license), my favorite.

Why is school district a manual entry? That just seems broken. It should be filled in automatically by the MLS based on address and known district boundaries. It’s not that hard. Sigh, I know it’s not in your control tho…

Thanks for the idea, Joe!

Jakob – No, not in my control. Plus, it\’s a tough nut to crack. First there is the \”what if boundaries change?\” dilemma. Then, there are the occassional oddities like an area (Carmel Valley comes to mind) where one home may be in two school districts – one for K through 8 and another for high school. Always, where schools are concerned, it is better to visit the school sites or talk to your agent.

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Thanks for mentioning my post on loans for homes that need work. However, they are 203(K) loans, not 403(K) loans.

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Kris, about the “minor annoying audio humming.” It’s certainly annoying but it’s not really minor. Be sure and use a USB microphone, if you weren’t. Sound quality is TONS better. However, I’ve had a terrible time with USB mics not working after a few months. My new strategy it to leave the mic plugged into the USB port all the time and that seems to work better. But then again the problem could have been unique to my computer set up.

Here’s a post with video I added last night.
http://www.arizonarealestatenotebook.com/2009/08/14/scottsdale-short-sales/

I had to do some jerry rigging. The video itself was too large to embed in the blog post so I used SnagIt to grab and downsize an image of the video starting page and embedded that into the blog post and linked the image to the full video.

I like Jing. It’s very easy to use but you can’t resize the video. (Secret Tip: Jing works spectacular to go over MLS listings for buyer clients. Huge “Wow” factor. Create search in the MLS, create the Jing tutorial on how to use the MLS system and discuss the homes that meet their criteria, and email the link to the buyer client.)

John, I did use a usb mike. The hum goes away if I adjust the volume on playback.

I have used Screentoaster.com in the past, pretty good tool

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