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Now the distressed properties tool that is loved by REALTORS® is available anywhere you go.

The ForeclosureRadar™ iPhone™ app will allow you to review the status of a foreclosure property and update your distressed-property tracking analysis from your mobile device.

Features Include:

• Nearby Foreclosures
  
  • Show all foreclosures near your current location
• Search Foreclosures
  • View all property details, including phots, notes and transaction history
• Daily Auction Schedule
  • View all properties going to sale that day
• Monitor Auction Activity
  • Find properties as they are announced and check for opening bids
• View My Saved Properties
  • See your saved information and easily email from your phone

The ForeclosureRadar™ iPhone™ app is free if you already subscribe to ForeclosureRadar™ and is available for download through the Apple® iTunes store at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/foreclosureradar/id379791441. Please note: you will need an active subscription to login.

If you are not a subscriber of ForeclosureRadar™ you may receive a 10% discount and an extended trial period of 7 days. To receive the discount, visit www.foreclosureradar.com/car and use coupon code “RADAR99.”

Stay connected to your clients and never miss a beat.

Today’s real estate professional knows that it is getting harder to stay ahead of the competition in this ever-changing industry. You rely on tools that simplify and improve your day-to-day life – tools that allow you to act fast and access vital information immediately, no matter where you are. Keeping on top of the latest technology in the office is work enough, but now agents and brokers must find a way to connect and take care of business wherever they go.

C.A.R. is proud to present zipForm® Mobile for iPhone™ – an extension of the office when your business has ‘left the building’. This companion software is an extension of your zipForm® (online version) account that allows you to keep important transaction information readily accessible. Now you can easily stay connected to your zipForm contract information anytime and anywhere your hectic schedule takes you.

zipForm® Mobile for iPhone™ is available for purchase in the Apple® iTunes store for $9.99. Please visit: http://itunes.apple.com/app/zipform/id323242961?mt=8.

Right here – right now – with the right information

zipForm® Mobile for iPhone™ lets you immediately connect to that important information contained in your zipForm online account, and managing online transactions has never been easier. Get property information, seller and buyer information, and list and offer dates along with listing price and deposit. Now efficiently manage your transactions on the go, directly from your Apple® iPhone™ and iPod touch®.

Features Included

• List and modify transactions (sort ascending / descending by modification date or by name)
• Create a new transaction
• List the forms within a transaction (sort alphabetically)
• Add one or more forms to a transaction from one or more licensed libraries

• View forms via various methods (navigate, zoom, rotate)
• Email one or more forms in PDF format to one or more email recipients, complete with an comments for the recipients
• Fill in commonly used transaction information with the ‘Data Fill’ feature, and it will automatically cascade throughout the forms in the transaction

zipForm® Mobile for iPhone™ provides another way for today’s busy real estate professional to interface with their zipForm® 6 Professional software and stay connected to their clients. zipForm® Mobile for Treo ™ is also available.

For more information visit http://zipform.com/zfmobile/

CCAR is pleased to offer you a premium IDX enabled website option at bargain pricing. Click play on the video below to see what SiteBuilder can do for you today, or click over to www.ccartoday.com/sites to read more. Ready to get started today? Just call 925.295.1270.

Enough talk, time for some demonstrations. In our last post in this series, we covered the rather ho hum (but necessary) basics. In our first review article we discussed whether the iPad was a tool or a toy for real estate. Now we will take a look at the iPad in action touching some real estate related functionality.

First video segment – opening the iPad and launching the CCAR Mobile portal, which we have conveniently added to our home page. The CCAR mobile portal at m.ccartoday.com is a mobile optimized replica of ccartoday.com’s key services designed specifically for mobile devices like the blackberry, iPhone, iPad, etc.

Once we are in the mobile portal, we head into the free ‘Area Demographics’ tool that we offer.

A few notes on the videos in this post. We are using a wireless connection to stream the iPad screen to the laptop this is being written on. At the moment this is the most effective way to capture what you see on the iPad screen. We can’t wait for ‘an app for that!’

As a result of that wireless connection, you will see some ‘lag’ or jerkiness in the screen as it refreshes the content.

Since we are on an iPad, flash will not work. CCAR employs flash on several websites, most noticeably in our listing galleries. While the websites will work, there will be an empty space where the flash content should be. Certain other scripts will not display properly on web pages as well.

Finally, we also see a normal computer mouse cursor on the screen. This is not visible on the iPad normally, it is simply a side effect of displaying the iPad on the computer screen. It does help a bit to show you what we are about to click on as we move around the iPad interface.

Second video clip… Lets take a quick peek at how ccartoday.com (NOT the mobile version) loads on the iPad, as well as a few other services like HOT – HomesOpenToday.com. Note that we are focusing on a listing from volunteer leader and President-Elect Fred Weston, who has taken advantage of the opportunity to augment his listing with an additional 18 property photos. The ability to add as many as 25 additional property pics to your listings is one of CCAR’s latest members only benefits!

More real estate related demonstrations are on the way. Up next… a peek at how to use ccar tools with the cooliris app on the ipad, a more in-depth look at the CCAR Mobile Portal at m.ccartoday.com, and much more.