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Hi.

I am Jay Seville, the owner of Wilmington-Real-Estate.com and I want to give you some

quick tips and tricks on using what I consider to be the best Wilmington NC MLS tool available

on the region.

It also includes a Carolina Beach MLS, the Wrightsville Beach MLS, et cetera.

So, in no particular order, let me go over these with you, couple of disclaimers.

One, if you hear

some background disturbances it's because I have seven kids and they're homeschooled

and

often there are disturbances.

Number two, don't you dare think that I'm some super parent.

I

am just like you, every week I wonder when am I going to get better at parenting.

And in fact,

today, my goal was not to sell any houses, but just to go all day once without raising

my voice

to my children and as of 7:30 this morning, sort of on that fine line of that goal.

And then three,

yeah, the power suit is on.

It's not me.

When you come to see homes I will be in flip-flops and a

polo shirt at best.

So, first you get to Wilmington-Real-Estate.com, click on Login, your login is your e-mail

address and the word "password."

Now, if you want to change that you can, but I have news for

you.

Nobody is going to be trying to break into your account here.

Click on my Saved Search.

A lot of people call me about Hoggard High School homes for sale in Wilmington, so I

have

that as an example.

All right, here we have variables, house, minimum price 550, max 1.15

million, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, Hoggard High School and a minimum square feet is 3500,

so

you click on that and right away it will bring it to listings with the most recent listings

on top, of

course.

All right, real quick, before I go into my general overview of the tips and tricks in

the website, I

just want to show you how the map view works because it's definitely a step above others.

Here

you get your basic map, you can also click on Satellite and make sure there is not a

shopping

center right behind the house and then your other trick is click on the orange man, drag

him

over to the street and just like the home owner you get to scroll around, drag and drop

and see

exactly what the neighbors and the owners are saying.

The house in question will be marked

by this little red dot and as you can see it's a water view home, so that is a fantastic

mapping

trick to use.

Some of the other benefits of the property details page has to do with the amount of

information.

You have immediately the details and you have a big photo, not a little photo.

Much bigger photo then you find on other websites and all the photos are all on the same page,

so there is not a bunch of clicking and backspacing and it's also not on some auto play where

every second it moves on to the next photo, meanwhile you haven't finished looking at

the

photo that you wanted to see in the first place.

And the property details sets this apart from

other Wilmington NC MLS tools because it gives you a ton of details that go on and on and

on.

Most agents have their websites set up to only give you about these many details.

Their goal is

for you to have to call the agent and ask questions so they can connect with you.

I was on the

cutting edge of real estate technology going back to 2005 and my goal is for you to have

as much

information about each listing, that way you don't have to call me.

And when you want to see

a property, you do call me and I'll meet you at the door.

Some examples that most websites

do not have are room dimensions.

Here you have the kitchen 15x12, the master bedroom is

20x14 on the upper level, there are three stories, the dining room dimensions, down

here HOA

fees.

Almost no websites give you the HOA fees, so here it is $76 a month.

Those are two good

examples of how this website is set apart for helping you finding the home that you're

interested

in.

Now, a couple of quick search tools.

I put a link here on the right sidebar, that way no matter

where you are on the website; you can always do a quick Advanced Search.

So let's say you're

interested in Hoggard High School; however, you grew up in Arizona, so you're wanting

to

have a swimming pool and you don't want some community swimming pool, you want a

real swimming pool in your own backyard and I use that as an example because I grew up

in

Phoenix, Arizona, so you click on House, you want to be in Hoggard so you go type Hoggard

in the high school, in the school and instead of clicking pool view go up here to keywords,

type

in "in ground pool" and your max price is $600,000, so instead, if that's what you're

approved

for look in the $625,000 range and click the Submit.

Right away, literally it took one second.

You have eight houses show up on the map and the reason it's showing the map view is because

that's the last view we looked at.

It defaults to the previous view that you were looking at.

So, if you want to the quick curb

appeal of each home Gallery format is great and if you want to read immediately the first

few

lines of each listing then the List view is great.

And, again, you click on any of these and all the

details are there.

If you want to save it as a favorite listing, you may go ahead and click the Save

Property and make any comments because you may want to send a note to your significant

other

about the property and they'd want to be able to read the notes that you saved as well.

And, of

course, like I've introduced to you before, if you want to see what's going on in the

street, just

drag the little orange man and start dragging and dropping and seeing what's on the street

and

there is the house in question.

If you want you can move the little orange man over, click the

X and start over because I didn't take it all the way there, maybe dropped it a little

bit closer.

There, we're more centered up now.

Okay.

Now, so, let me just use another example of an

Advanced Search because there are all sorts of examples.

On that pool search, you also might

type in "in-ground pool" because some agents list it both ways and that could make a difference

of two extra listings.

All right.

Let me give you another example of the same niche type search because you're a big

tennis player, you type in Wilmington, but you don't to be like right up next to your

neighbor,

you want some space so here on acreage I'm selecting a half acre, 0.5 acres.

I typed in the word

here "tennis" and at least 1,500 square feet, that will eliminate some property, so click

on Revise

and I end up still with $550,000 a home, some of them right away on Landfall, Marsh Oaks

and based on the curb appeal I can decide to see some or not see some.

I may want to get more

narrow than that and just look at the homes that are closest to Wrightsville Beach.

These two are

obviously way closer than down here so let me pan in a little bit and see which home

m talking

about.

This is a home in Landfall and another one.

So, my point is, you can look for niche searches based on the acreage you want and features

you

want and that will really help you a lot and then you can save a search, so when another

home

comes up, that has excess to tennis courts or Country Club, you'll be notified of it.

That way you

don't have to be notified of stuff you don't want.

I will say this though.

As you get closer to

where you're ready to buy, we should switch you to the MLS tool itself because nothing

beats it,

you get a client portal like this in which there are newly matched listing that go out

and the agent

can recommend particular listing to you.

When your agent goes that one time with you, they get

a great feel for what you're interested in, so they will only recommend a portion of these

new

listings to you based on them knowing you even better than, of course, the MLS automated

tool.

You can save listing favorites for yourself like this lady has saved 11 homes and you

can actually

reject homes, get them out of your system and your agent can learn from this as well.

They can see your saved favorites, they can look at your rejected ones, you can post comments

on each listing and that way your agent can read your observations on it or the significant

other

who is also on the same portal as you can read your comments on the listing, it sort

of makes

for a lot of teamwork and this is what we call a client portal and if you're going to

get to that

last stage of looking at homes, than I would love for you to be on this system as it is

superior.

It

gives you every possible detail imaginable; more than any third-party site line mine.

So there

you go.

Advanced search, you login right here and you login from what is your e-mail address

and a word "password."

And I hope you enjoy it.

There are a bunch of pre-constructed sort

of searches in here and I'll just show you them real quickly, you know, if you hover

over here

you have Creek Front Homes that gives you all the different creeks.

You can type on New

Construction Homes.

You can go over here to Carolina Beach and look at new construction or

condos.

You can go to Kure and look at oceanfront homes.

A bunch of niche searches like golf course communities.

Here is nine golf course communities

you can choose from.

So I've tried to make this very user friendly for you to get the most out of

it and several of the most recent blog posts are home values for oceanfront Fort Fisher

homes,

that's Fort Fisher Boulevard in Kure Beach.

ICWW waterfront homes in Landfall.

A lot of

these are videos actually.

Here's one called Bust!

Add $300 to Your Monthly Carolina Beach

Real Estate Payment-Wind and Hail Insurance.

Another one here on how to negotiate the best

price using video e-mail, etc., so do read the blog, chances are something you're interested

in

will show up in these topics here on the right-hand side if you scroll down, which topic are you

interested in, Wrightsville Beach real estate and condos, well, here are the pieces and

articles on

that subject specifically.

But the main thing that separates this MLS tool from others is details.

You can do detailed searches and then when you click on a listing all the details are

there that

you could want pretty much without going into the MLS itself like a realtor.

So, there you go.

Enjoy this MLS tool.

From what I've researched, it's the best one in the Wilmington, North

Carolina market.

It works with all cities, Kure Beach, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina Beach,

Topsail, Oak Island, Leland, etc.

Big pictures.

Lots of details and great map views.

Talk to you

later.