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All Forum Posts by: Austin Bright

Austin Bright has started 57 posts and replied 151 times.

Quote from @David D.:
Quote from @Austin Bright:
Quote from @David D.:

Oh also, I think Redfin gives off market homes an mls id anyway, it should have whatever home you are interested in


Is the MLS ID the number after the last "/" in this url? I can use python to get this, i bet I can generate a formula in power query to do the rest and not use a scraper at all

https://www.redfin.com/TX/Fort-Worth/10725-Lone-Pine-Ln-7610...



That's actually the property ID, it works similarly to an MLS ID but is specific to Redfin to keep track of the properties uniquely. But yeah if you can grab the data with power query and are comfortable using it that works!


 Can I modify the python to grab the property id instead of mls I’d?

Quote from @David D.:

Oh also, I think Redfin gives off market homes an mls id anyway, it should have whatever home you are interested in


Is the MLS ID the number after the last "/" in this url? I can use python to get this, i bet I can generate a formula in power query to do the rest and not use a scraper at all

https://www.redfin.com/TX/Fort-Worth/10725-Lone-Pine-Ln-7610...


Quote from @David D.:

Oh also, I think Redfin gives off market homes an mls id anyway, it should have whatever home you are interested in


 So if I give an address, it can return 3/2/2, etc? That’s what I want, plug 10,000 addresses and get  3/2/2 and build year or a cobo

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I’ve been using ATTOM api and they have a free trial, they’re really generous with a free trial of everything for 30 days. You can ask a generative AI to write the code to pull and save the data to csv and it’ll write pretty efficient code


I looked into them. They are expensive. My goal realistically is to do custom lead mining on fiver to of set costs on my own marketing. I’d have to keep costs low for it to work. Right now I pull county data into excel for free and upload that into deal machine. They offer free skip tracing. Cheapest marketing model I’ve put together. I can send 36,000 texts and be all in for a little under a grand a month. Offer custom lead mining would help me boost revenue because deal volume has fallen quite a bit.

Johns scraper option looks really interesting though I’ve never heard of the site so can’t vouch for it. However I have used some of apifys scrapers (for non real estate uses) and was highly satisfied with the value for the price: https://apify.com/tri_angle/redfin-search
It looks like it’s for listed properties only? It looks like I need an mls Id based on sample code
Quote from @David D.:
Quote from @Austin Bright:
Quote from @David D.:

I’ve been using ATTOM api and they have a free trial, they’re really generous with a free trial of everything for 30 days. You can ask a generative AI to write the code to pull and save the data to csv and it’ll write pretty efficient code


I looked into them. They are expensive. My goal realistically is to do custom lead mining on fiver to of set costs on my own marketing. I’d have to keep costs low for it to work. Right now I pull county data into excel for free and upload that into deal machine. They offer free skip tracing. Cheapest marketing model I’ve put together. I can send 36,000 texts and be all in for a little under a grand a month. Offer custom lead mining would help me boost revenue because deal volume has fallen quite a bit.

Johns scraper option looks really interesting though I’ve never heard of the site so can’t vouch for it. However I have used some of apifys scrapers (for non real estate uses) and was highly satisfied with the value for the price: https://apify.com/tri_angle/redfin-search
Thank you! Is it easy to use? I’m a spreadsheet guy, not a software engineer. I was using chat gpt to build code, but just kept running into roadblocks. Is the Redfin pre built?
Quote from @David D.:

I’ve been using ATTOM api and they have a free trial, they’re really generous with a free trial of everything for 30 days. You can ask a generative AI to write the code to pull and save the data to csv and it’ll write pretty efficient code


I looked into them. They are expensive. My goal realistically is to do custom lead mining on fiver to of set costs on my own marketing. I’d have to keep costs low for it to work. Right now I pull county data into excel for free and upload that into deal machine. They offer free skip tracing. Cheapest marketing model I’ve put together. I can send 36,000 texts and be all in for a little under a grand a month. Offer custom lead mining would help me boost revenue because deal volume has fallen quite a bit.

Quote from @John Mason:

I do not use either so cannot comment but I am sure you have a  great judge on it:)


 Thank you for the help

Quote from @John Mason:

I would rather look at how efficient it is than save  200 USD..what do you think?


 I actually read the find print 0.28 per 1,000. That’s a much better deal

Quote from @John Mason:

 Thanks! On the pricing, when it says 0.28/cpm, does that essentially mean each address I need will cost 0.28? So the info on 1,000 addresses is $280 bucks? Propstream is $197 for 25,000 addresses.


so far propstream seems to be the cheapest for mass lookups. I was just wondering if I could pivot to something cheaper. Thank you for your help!

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If you are wanting to get ahead I would pay the  100 usd on fiverr and get it done and  then go to next  step  in  your journey and then learn the way to do it on the side so that you do not lose time..hope I made sense


 I do that now. I’m trying to move away from it, but was wondering if other people knew how to do it