My sister is my real estate agent. She is very helpful and has never complained about having to show property to me even when she knew there was little chance I'd be buying. This process, though, became a lot easier for her once I was subscribed to the MLS email notification service. While helpful, it is less than efficient. I was sent the same properties over and over, often as a new listing that I'd already seen 50 times. But rather than sending an image of the property, you were sent a link to the property. So if the email contains 5 properties, which was not unusual, you were sent 5 links which requires you to click 5 separate times to link to 5 different property websites just to determine if you have seen them before. Usually I had.
I am sent various shopping emails 10 times a day from all sorts of places that contain images for 5 to 10 different items for purchase. You can click on, for instance, a bottle of ketchup, if you're interested in it. I don't know how much a bottle of ketchup costs exactly but let's say $5. So these shopping sites can make the email contain a clickable image of a $5 bottle of ketchup, but the MLS cannot manage to put an image of a $350,000 condo into an email. Sloppy, lazy, inefficient and seriously annoying. Still, clicking on 5 different URLs in the privacy of my office is easier than asking my sister to come into Milwaukee, and then going and looking at some crap hole she knew perfectly well I was not going to buy.
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