Today feels like a good day to pick on subdivisions. If I’m searching for a home in a particular subdivision, trusting the subdivision field can be scary. I usually get more results when I draw a shape on the map outlining the subdivision than I do when using the subdivision field. The only problem is that until last week, it has taken too much time to always be drawing exact shapes whenever I want to do a subdivision search. That has changed with last week’s map overlay upgrade.
Is the mapping 100% accurate, no. Do I trust mapping more than I trust the subdivision field, yes. Here’s one example why I trust map shapes more than subdivision names.
Active Search Results for:
Subdivision Field: westwing mountain = 49
Subdivision Field: *westwing* = 53
Map Shape: Outline of Westwing Mountain subdivision = 58
This shows me the map shape is more accurate than human entered subdivisions. The problem? It took too long to always be drawing exact shapes around particular subdivisions… Until Now!
Time to get to the flexmls feature part of this flexmls feature friday – savable map overlays. Now I can draw an exact shape around Westwing Mountain, save it, and use it over and over again.
To create a shape, go to Preferences – > My Map Overlays. Follow the prompts.
If you like video tutorials, here’s a good one.
Happy f-cubed!
Always draw a map shape around your search area, there are just too many ways to spell “soobdivizzen” and if you don’t spell it the way the listing agent spells it, you don’t get the hit. And, your client wants to know why you cannot pull up that one that they drove by and it looks gorgeous. And they want to see it.
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