Thanks for stopping.

From my point of view, the software is pretty much all there, though I agree that some identification of opens would be a nice addition. You’ve included all of the data that’s available with the listing and made it easy for the user to contact an agent if they have additional questions. What more is there, unless of course, you want to explore mapping schools and other neighbourhood amenities but that might even be too much on the small screen.

Do let me know what you guys decide on the Blackberry thing. Your new software might just be enough to move me to the iPhone if you decide not to proceed with the other.

The open houses suggestion is indeed very valid and we had them in the plans but they didn’t make it into the “version 1″ feature list. This feature will be added before the application leaves beta.

We are also looking into a Blackberry version but it’s unclear right now how much effort will need to be invested in that. The cool thing about the iPhone and Android version is that they were done simply leveraging the new HTML5 standard features. It is my understanding that the Blackberry browser will require some additional “love”

Further suggestions are welcome! What else would you like to see in this application?!

There is a publication that comes out on Friday called the Realtor Showcase that has a printed list of open houses. There is an online version here.

Ya, I do realize that there are lots of ways one could look up everything for sale, but for most people it would not be possible to do that in the car, or standing on front of a house that they’re curious about.

Another thought here. If it were “just” open houses, the app would only be useful for 10-12 hours a week, and it wouldn’t ever be helpful if you were just walking by a house that you were curious about, unless it were open, in which case you could just walk in and check it out. I’m thinking it would be tough to convince a software programmer that it would be prudent to make a program less useful.

All that said, Justin’s idea of somehow highlighting open houses is a cool improvement to an already pretty cool program. I will definitely bring that forward as I think an “open house” field is available on the Saskatoon MLS listings.

I’m told that there has been quite a number of requests for a Blackberry version and that one might follow shortly. That would be my personal preference as well. I’ve been using Blackberry since the early days and just bought a Bold about six months ago.

Thanks for the feedback. Help me out here please. Why would it be “even better” if you could do it with open houses only? Thanks again.