Real estate then and now
I have been in the real estate field now since 1978. I have seen many great changes in the area of technology for our industry. When I first entered real estate my first piece of technology was a pager... I would get a beep, then have to stop to call from a pay phone! Remember those? We looked up real estate for our clients using the weekly mls books, that I would carry around in the trunk of my car. Those books were considered gold and many of my clients back then would ask how they could get a copy! Imagine that! we were the keepers of the info! I would then proceed to thumb through the book looking for listings to show, call broker, make arrangements to pick up keys, back then not a lot of homes used the mls lock boxes. My first mls lockbox key I was thrilled when my husband bought me my first cell (bag) phone. Even though it was big and bulky I had a phone! At one time I even had a phone permanently installed in my vehicle. Loo