Friday, November 30, 2007

Send Us Your Data

Effective immediately OpenHomez.com is accepting your XML data feeds. If you have a large number of open houses that you would like to post on OpenHomez.com this option will save you some time. You can upload all of your data at once. No need to enter individual listings online. Of course all of your listings, regardless of how they were entered, are available to you online.

If you're interested in bulk upload of your data please review our XML Data Feed Instructions. If you have any questions, suggestions, or an open house existing feed available, please don't hesitate to email us.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Donations

Our donation program is now active. All of the basic services of OpenHomez.com are free for all and we do not sell or otherwise divulge your personal information. Our only source of revenue is the ads on our site and donations from our users. You can support OpenHomez.com by clicking on the advertisements of the vendors that advertise on our site or by making a donation.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Notifications

Openhomez.com users that create an account can now create alerts and have notifications sent to their email address and/or their mobile phone when a new open house listing is created. Create and log into your account. Click on "My Alerts" and add as many alerts as you like. Check boxes for email and SMS alerts are provided for each alert.

Notifications will be sent to the email address and/or the SMS email address in your account (My Account) listing. See our FAQs for additional information on SMS email addresses.

In addition, all new listing will be posted to various Internet sources to optimize the exposure of your open house listing. See our post on Syndications and Exposure for additional information.

Notifications and postings are delivered hourly, on the hour.

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Beta Version 0.2

OpenHomez.com is now open for Beta testing. You can search for opens houses for FREE and without having to create an account.

You can post your open house listings for FREE by creating a FREE account. You can create your personal account by checking the "Create New Account" box on the OpenHomez.com Login screen. This is still a beta test so some things may move around or change, however the system is stable and you should not experience any loss of data.

We are still working on many features of Openhomez.com including additional syndication of your open house listings to other sites such as Zillow, Trulia, and Google Base as well as our own Open House Blog.

If you have any comments, suggestions, or feedback please post your comments on this blog or email us.