Dear All,
I've started looking for IP about couple of weeks ago and what I found was that after visiting 6-7 flats on the weekends and 2-3 on weekdays it's hard to keep track of the once that you liked or disliked. What my wife and I do at the moment is, we write down the inspection dates and times for the properties we are interested in. After visiting each property we also add short comments and the estimated price range (if we didn't know the price). Still, this is an awkward process. When we've visited about a hundred properties it will be hard to remember them all and we'll have to constantly refer to our notes which is time consuming.
The idea that I came up with is - design a simple database which would include things like: street number, suburb, property type (flat, house etc), price (if known), comments. Then there will be inspection dates and times for each property, appointments that I've made with the estate agents for each property, auctions dates and times. When the property is sold it would still be kept in the database and I could see the prices for the suburb that I'm looking in.
I could also make this database available on the Internet for myself and my wife to update the records when we have time, and not only for us but for other people as well. The users of this system will be able to see each others’ research by running various reports i.e. suburb prices, 2 bedroom apartment prices per suburb, auction/inspection times for today etc.
Please let me know if you think this is a good idea, or otherwise how do you approach this problem, how do you do your market research?
My apologies if this is not the right forum for this thread, I wasn't really sure where to post it to.
Thank you all for your time.
I've started looking for IP about couple of weeks ago and what I found was that after visiting 6-7 flats on the weekends and 2-3 on weekdays it's hard to keep track of the once that you liked or disliked. What my wife and I do at the moment is, we write down the inspection dates and times for the properties we are interested in. After visiting each property we also add short comments and the estimated price range (if we didn't know the price). Still, this is an awkward process. When we've visited about a hundred properties it will be hard to remember them all and we'll have to constantly refer to our notes which is time consuming.
The idea that I came up with is - design a simple database which would include things like: street number, suburb, property type (flat, house etc), price (if known), comments. Then there will be inspection dates and times for each property, appointments that I've made with the estate agents for each property, auctions dates and times. When the property is sold it would still be kept in the database and I could see the prices for the suburb that I'm looking in.
I could also make this database available on the Internet for myself and my wife to update the records when we have time, and not only for us but for other people as well. The users of this system will be able to see each others’ research by running various reports i.e. suburb prices, 2 bedroom apartment prices per suburb, auction/inspection times for today etc.
Please let me know if you think this is a good idea, or otherwise how do you approach this problem, how do you do your market research?
My apologies if this is not the right forum for this thread, I wasn't really sure where to post it to.
Thank you all for your time.