The Benefits of a Real Estate Directory to VisitorsPosted by Nick Niesen on November 8th, 2010 When you need a telephone number, where do you turn? If you?re like most people, you flip open the Yellow Pages ? the telephone directory. Directories are so much a part of our everyday lives that we take their presence for granted. The building directory helps you find the right office or apartment. The employee directory will help you find the right person in the right department. A film directory helps you find the movie that you?re looking for by title, subject, actors, director or producer. One of today?s most popular ?search engines? started life as a directory ? and still is. Yahoo! has one of the most comprehensive directories of web sites online. But when you?re looking for specific information, especially regional information, it pays to turn to a specialty directory to help you find what you want. An online real estate directory is the best place to turn when you?re looking for a information about buying, selling, inspecting and improving property. What is a real estate directory? Why a real estate directory? While traditional search engines are a good place to start looking for home listings, you?ll often have to drill down through several pages to get past the listings for home mortgage companies, a few dozen single realtors, several realty listing sites that only lead to more realty listing sites ? in other words, all the flotsam that floats to the top of the search engines. By going directly to a real estate directory, you?ll cut out the sifting through pages of unrelated info and get straight to what you?re looking for ? an indexed directory of current real estate listings that makes it easy to find the homes you want to buy. Finally, the best real estate directory doesn?t stop with providing listings of homes for sale like many realtor sites do. You?ll find listings for web sites that tell you how to prepare your home for sale, how to put your home on the market, which home improvements offer the most ROI (return on investment, of course), mortgage and loan companies and so much more. Like it? Share it!More by this author |