Grand Rapids Association of Realtors did another great job hosting the REBarCamp in downtown Grand Rapids this year. We talked innovation, social media, Google, Samrt Phones, and much more.
RECalc is a Real Estate Mortgage Loan Calculator that is also a traditional Mathematical Calculator.You can use RECalc to calculate the Monthly Payment, Term, Interest Rate or Loan Amount for a loan, as well as standard mathematical calculations as you would in any other calculator. Once you modify any of the Calculation variables you can re-calculate any of the other values. You can also figure in Annual Property Tax, Homeowner's Insurance and Mortgage Insurance, as well as a Down Payment amount/percentage.RECalc supports semi-annual compounding (Canadian Amortization) in addition to normal monthly compounding. With a click, you can display the complete Loan Summary and Amortization Table for your calculation. You can also email this to your desktop or save the loan for future use.Whether you're a real estate professional, mortgage broker, first time home buyer or looking to refinance, you can have RECalc easily accessible on your iPhone or iPod touch.
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. This means that any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, phonesand even the Dropbox website. Dropbox also makes it super easy to share with others, whether you're a student or professional, parent or grandparent. Even if you accidentally spill a latte on your laptop, have no fear! You can relax knowing that Dropbox always has you covered, and none of your stuff will ever be lost.All your stuff, when you need it.Dropbox works hard to make sure that all your files are the same no matter where you're working from. This means that you can start working on a computer at school or the office, and finish from your home computer. Never email yourself a file again! Download Dropbox for your phone to simplify your life even more -- flip through all your photos or review that spreadsheet even while on the road. Dropbox lets you work from any computer or phone with the confidence that you'll always have everything you need.Share what matters most.Dropbox makes sharing so easy that you'll be amazed at the things you can do. Invite your friends, family and teammates to any folder in your Dropbox, and it'll be as if you saved that folder straight to their computers. You can send people links to specific files in your Dropbox too. This makes Dropbox perfect for team projects, sharing party photos with friends, or recording your band's new album.Dodge catastrophe with a click.Even if your computer has a meltdown, your stuff is always safe in Dropbox and can be restored in a snap. Dropbox is like a time machine that lets you undo mistakes and even undelete files you accidentally trash. Your Dropbox is always ready for action from the Dropbox website too!
SignMyPad is the first ever PDF signature app available for download on Apple's iPad. Once installed on your iPad, simply load a PDF (via iTunes or email), click anywhere on the screen and choose what you want to enter. You can place text, a radio button or checkbox, the date and your signature. No more printing documents to sign, then scan and email back. Do it all right there on your iPad!
Evernote is an award-winning service that turns every computer and phone you use into an extension of your brain. Use Evernote to save your ideas, experiences and inspirations, then easily access them all at any time from anywhere. Capture your memories - Save all of your notes, research and projects into one place - Create task lists and to-dos so you'll never forget a thing - Clip interesting webpages using Evernote browser extensions and plugins - Attach images, audio, PDFs, and more* Find everything fast - Organize your notes using notebooks and tags - Search notes by keyword and text - Automatic image processing lets you search for words inside photos Access from anywhere - All your notes are instantly synchronized among all the different versions you use - In addition to Evernote Web, there are free downloadable versions of Evernote for Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, and more available at www.evernote.com. * Premium subscribers can attach additional file types to notes.
Manage your Open House and Real Estate listings with Open Home Pro. Collect client information, auto email them and more. 100% Free.If you are a Real Estate Agent get ready for the ultimate tool to manage your real estate business. The ultimate free iPad application for Real Estate Agents.Open Home Pro offers you a beautiful way to collect information about potential clients that visit your open homes. Within seconds you or your potential client can input their name, email address, number of bedrooms they are seeking and more. Not only does Open Home Pro save all of the data in it's address book (that you can export into a .csv file), but it also emails every client that gets put in the system thanking them for visiting personally from you. If they reply to that email with additional questions it goes right to you. This creates another touch point with every potential client that you talk with. Open Home Pro is also FREE.Our mission is to help you close more deals by providing elegant tools to delight your clients. Whether you work for Redfin, Century 21 or are a self employed agent, Open Home Pro will be essential in your workflow. Features:• Auto Email every client thanking them for stopping by• All data collected gets stored in Open Home Pro and can be exported easily into .csv for import into your CRM• Simple. Open Home Pro is designed to be easy to use• Ability to publish real estate listings to OpenHomePro.com, driving you additional leads• If you drop the price on a listing in the app all clients who previously saw it get emailed with the new price update.• Full screen photo slideshows to show clients
Dragon Dictation is an easy-to-use voice recognition application powered by Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® that allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages. In fact, it’s up to five (5) times faster than typing on the keyboard.With Dragon Dictation you can also dictate status updates directly to your Social Networking applications (Facebook and Twitter) or send notes and reminders to yourself….all using your voice. So when you’re on-the-go, stop typing and start speaking – from short text messages to longer email messages, and anything in between.