All Forum Posts by: Brendan Carroll

Six month old thread, I know, but if you are an iPad user, and have use for viewing and editing Microsoft Office documents (for free), you should check out cloudon. One of my personal favorites. It connects to your Dropbox account, so everything is taken care of on the cloud. I find that it works better than Quick Office at opening complex spreadsheets.

http://www.cultofmac.com/137804/cloudon-brings-microsoft-office-to-your-ipad-for-free/

@Chris I agree 100%. Purely a high level view.

Zillow should be pretty accurate when it comes to previous sale prices I would think (simply querying public record). By the same token, I am going to assume that it can grab the latest assessed value for tax purposes as well. These are handy tidbits to have (the former, mostly for marketing purposes).

@Mike This tool would mainly be used for analyzing markets, not really "buying comps". Once I find an area that looks good on paper, I can engage realtors for real ARV comps. I then bring those values back into the tool, to properly crunch the numbers, and see if that area is still worth looking in to.

Another interesting tidbit about JotNot Pro for iPhone/iPad, it has direct upload support for a number of cloud storage solutions. It currently supports MobileMe iDisk, WebDAV (never heard of this one before), Google Docs, Dropbox, Box, and Evernote. Hopefully they will add native Sugar Sync support soon, as SS is my preferred cloud storage service.

JotNot Pro for iDevices is excellent for quick receipts on the road. And the old all in one scanner at home with a hopper is good for the large documents. I have been using Evernote to keep it organized on the Cloud.

First post!

I really hope I haven't missed a discussion on this, I've tried doing a search on it here, and it mostly leads to discussions about how inaccurate Zillow is. :) Be that as it may, I am interested in using Zillow Zestimates, "Last Sold" values, and the most recent property tax assessment values, in a property analysis spreadsheet I am trying to put together.

Input: Homepath bulk .csv file
Output: Same file with the above Zillow information added.

I have come across a site that does this automatically, but the rates seem steep for what you get out of it. zim.ca. "Zestimates In Minutes".

I see a number of similar projects have been posted on freelancer.com, so I may just contact someone there to whip something up for me.

Looking forward to taking part in the BP community.