E-Mail Reports? Send you client a link like this!

[Erby]

I e-mail my clients with clickable links to the reports uploaded to my website.

In the e-mail I include a clickable link like this:

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/addres ... ngton%7cKY

That's one of the good ones available if there is an "Urban Area" selection.

If not they come out like this picture of farm boy's land.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/addres ... c+NY+14470

Geeze, are we all just a bunch of farm boys in here.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/addres ... umbus%7cMS

Wait, there's Mike's place (an Urban area photo even:

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/addres ... c+WA+98028

Try including that for your clients. Mine love it.

I select the address find function of terraserver, type in the address of the house, and when it comes up, copy and paste the link into the e-mail I'm sending. The client clicks on it and there's an image of their house. I tell them to click on the picture to pan and zoom to their hearts content.

NOTE: Be careful. It ain't always right.

Enjoy.

[hausdok]

Yeah,

And as close as I can tell when I blow it up, that's my silver Baja parked in the lot. Spooky!

Wonder if that speck standing by the dumpster is me?

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

[Brian G]

Originally posted by Erby

Geeze, are we all just a bunch of farm boys in here.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/addres ... umbus%7cMS

NOTE: Be careful. It ain't always right.

Man, how old are these? My house doesn't even exist in that photo, along with about 5 -6 more. The first house on the left below the road in my grandparents' place. If you stay on the same side of the road moving east (that's right for you directionally challenged folks) the next two houses (now) are my parents and mine. The "extended family cluster", if you will.

"That's the way, uh-huh uh-huh, I like it, uh-huh uh-huh"

Brian G.

BG & the Sunshine Band [] [:-headpho

[Richard Moore]

Got my house and truck...and maybe even me! I really can't think what else the blob would be in that area of the back yard! Hmmm..."Visible from space!"...might be time for the diet?

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Thanks Erby...pretty cool and will be a nice addition for my clients.

BTW...does this mean we can stop walking roofs?

[hausdok]

Hmmm,

Nah, it's not my Baja. The photo was taken June 2002 and I didn't get it until May 2003. It doesn't look like the Chevy van I had, so I guess I had it wrong.

OT - OF!!!

M.

[Erby]

Brian, look at the top of the screen by the address. It gives you the date. Yours is 20 February, 1992. It's not going to work for a few of your clients, but the majority will love you for it.

Sometimes I have to change the linked text as shown below for two links that are perfect examples of what can happen in five years. They are both the same area five years separate

Aerial photo of the area now known as 432 Ella Rae Lane, Lexington, KY (1997)

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/addres ... c+KY+40511

Aerial photo of 432 Ella Rae Lane, Lexington, KY (2002)

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/addres ... c+KY+40511

Kind of a sad commentary somehow.

But it wows the clients.

And helps justify my higher fees.

Tell your client (where feasible) I also provide an aerial photo of your house and the surrounding area.

Note that you can right click on the picture and save it to your computer and then just send the client the picture, but it wows them more if they can pan & zoom and try other addresses.

[Erby]

Note that you'll find me posting it here but not on IN or others because I just don't see my competition here, but do know they visit the others.

Merry Christmas.

[Chad Fabry]

The photo erby posted of my place is maybe ten yeras old. It looks the same. No neighbors, and I buy any land adjacent to me when it comes up for sale so I can be assured that I'll have no neighbors. I like to pee outside.

[Scottpat]

I found my house and it was dated March 2003. It's amazing what you can see.

[Erby]

I like it when the "Urban Area" photos are available. In color and much more of a closeup view.

But I couldn't figure out what the shiny spot on the back side of the house was. Is that you standing there?[:-magnify[:-magnify

Where you drinking beer and grilling steaks that day?

[Paul MacLean]

You might want to preview the link before posting it with a report. This is my place taken in 1995. The resolution is not good and the pin is not at the right townhome. Close, but no cigar. A picky client might think you errored.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/addres ... in%7cTexas

[Erby]

Paul,

See the last comment in my original post.

"NOTE: Be careful. It ain't always right."

It's kinda hard to get the link without previewing.

It won't work for all addresses, but its a WOW when it does.

[swarga]

Your right,

It's close but not always right.

I live at 1025 it shows my house as 1037

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[Brian G]

Scott's looks like a printed circuit.

"Close but not always dead on" also describes all of the free map services I've used, but they're close enough for my proposes.

Brian G.

[Amn]

In the north texas area (Dallas) you can use dfwmaps.com for excellent aerial images.

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