As a web designer and real estate investor a lot of my web design clients seem to be other real estate investors. Most of the time they want to list properties while having a nice website they can blog on too. Wordpress is usually the first thing that comes to mind as a good cms, but if you have already tried searching it’s pretty tough to find a solid plugin that does it all for real estate. Below I will list some that have worked well for me and that I recommend for you real estate wordpress users to try yourself:

Great Real Estate Plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/great-real-estate/

Fire Storm Interactive:

http://www.firestorminteractive.com/wordpress/

I am also a fan of open realty the open source software, which can be connected with wordpress after some tweaking.

For more on that visit:

http://www.jaredritchey.com/new-wp-realty/

If you want to see open realty in action on a clients site visit here

Cheers, if you need some words of advice just drop a comment!

If you’ve ever been somewhere with a laptop and no internet connection, than my friend you have entered the stoneage. Gasp* No internet to be able to update your facebook or twitter account while at grandmas! Now what? As a designer I find myself always needing to get online, and if your like me and you own a smartphone (proud owner android) but didn’t want to pay the ridiculous monthly fees to have a separate broadband adapter for your laptop, than this post is just for you. With all the money I’ll save you why don’t you buy me lunch.

Here’s how it works:

1. You will need PdaNet from JuneFabrics, which will allow your phone to connect to the computer via USB.
2. Next, install the application on your phone as described on their site.
3. Plug in your phone with a USB cable
4. Click connect from your computer, and your done!

I tested it myself on my android phone and it works like a charm.

Happy surfing!