Realtors Finally Beginning (Maybe "It's the Economy, Stupid") to Use Teh Innerweb?

In 2002 I bought my first house. When looking for a buyers' agent I emailed something like 20 agents. As a single woman, I emailed every female buyers' agent I could find online.

1 answered me.

In 2006 we sold that house; I emailed something like 20 agents of both genders.

3 answered me.

When we bought this house, we went through a rebate program at our bank, but the first criteria was finding out if the agent was going to answer our email (he did, and he was AWESOME and I hope he's doing ok in this market because he was AWESOME.)

Washington Post has a long story that can be summarized in one sentence, "Realtors find out people actually read web sites, not just MLS listings, start blogging." OMG! Shocking!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081501825_pf.html