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- Okay, so this is going to sound really stupid,
because we're all like, very tech-y.
But my favorite app is the camera, the one that's standard
on all your phones.
Because as real estate, it's all about
the pictures, right?
If you don't have a picture of it,
it didn't happen.
So what I tell my team, what I tell myself, is
like, is everybody take a picture.
And I also like the video because
I can take a video recording.
So, I'm real simple.
It's take a picture, and then I can save it all,
and I can send it, and I have a copy of it.
I can upload it.
We do a lot of Airbnb and VRBOs, so if a client
destroyed the house or there's an issue, I can
send that right on to Airbnb right on the app,
so I'm all about the camera.
- I have two.
So, I often am looking to refinance properties a lot,
so I actually really like the Zulu mortgage app
because it's got a payment calculator that is,
just like, crazy simple and actually adds in
you know, things like the interest and taxes and all
that stuff and it figures it out
and I can easily change it.
The second favorite app is actually
called EveryDollar by Dave Ramsey.
And it's a budgeting system, and it's real easy on
my phone and my wife has the same app and we can both
look at our budgets and kind of figure out what
we're going to do this month without a lot
of arguments.
So, I would say, if anything, that app has been a
peace keeper and I love that one as well.
- Probably my favorite app is the Slack app.
So, we have some Filipino VAs, and it is the best
way to communicate with them, since
they're all the way over there.
And they always have this app on their phone.
And not only that, but you can search within
these conversations as well.
It has completely replaced email for us altogether.
It's amazing.
- Hands down, Evernote, and I'll tell you why.
I'm a podcaster, youtuber,
and I run a full fledged real estate business.
The cool thing about Evernote is number one it
connects to every single resource that I have,
every other app on my phone, connects, prints,
and extracts from Evernote and I can keep everything
very well detailed and labeled in my calendars
I have the whole nine yards, everything connects
very well, so my entire business,
essentially, runs on evernote.
Simple, simple program.
So there you go.
- My favorite app, maybe surprisingly, is Facebook.
And it's really helped me in real estate, because
real estate's a relationship business, and it's
an app that helps me build relationships.
I've built relationships with investors that syndicate
so people find out I syndicate through Facebook
and have talked to me.
I also have a community for women real estate investors,
called Real Estate Investor Goddesses, which is
housed on Facebook.
So my ladies find me through Facebook,
my goddesses find me through Facebook.
So that's been the best app I have on my phone
that's helped me with my business.
- So for me, the best app is Airbnb because I run
three Airbnbs and it helps with just,
all the booking, the calendars, the messaging,
and all that stuff.
So without that app, my business would not be possible.
So, thank you Airbnb.
- I have Momentum, which, I don't know if you can see,
but what you do is, you essentially set up habits
and then you can go into the habit, and decide
how frequently you want to repeat it, if you want
to have a weekly target of how much you want to hit it.
It tracks like, strikes and totals, and it's just
a really, really cool way to track your habits.
- My favorite one, even though it's kind of
counterintuitive to what I do, because it's a
competitor of mine, is Redfin.
Redfin, not in all markets, but in most markets, has
a pretty good data set.
They have created an app that's quite usable,
and quickly able to be understood by most people.
So even, I've had older clients, I've had
people who aren't very tech savvy,
who I can say, "Hey, here's a very simple app,
put it on your phone, it does everything that
you need it to, within very quick parameters."
So, even the sort of thing, where if
you're driving around, it'll pull up everything
by GPS, it'll do different things like that.
So, half the time you're driving around, like,
"What's that house for sale for?"
No idea.
But with Redfin, you can literally pull it up
and it's going be like, this is the closest house to you
and it costs that much, and you can immediately
go, "Oh, way more than I wanted to spend."
Like, that's the general feeling of it.
But it's very intentionally to be very user friendly,
and to draw people in to what their business plan
is to become a huge brokerage.
And they're doing a very good job of that.
- Oh, my favorite smart phone app, that I sort of
use for hacking my life,
it's scanner pro.
I don't know if you can see it on here, Scanner Pro.
I kind of use it to, like anything I'm using,
I don't like using paper for anything, I always
like to throw paper away.
So I just scan everything in my life.
So I scan business cards that I get from people.
I scan receipts that I know I need for taxes.
I scan receipts that I need for real estate.
And then I throw them away, or I shred them.
And then, when I get back to my computer,
in a day or a week, then I can put them in the
right folders and then I know I got them
for what I need.
And that's what I use Scanner Pro for, it's a good app.
- Currently, my favorite business and just personal
app is called Blinkist.
What they do is, they have the top nonfiction books
and they boiled it down to fifteen minute synopses
that you can can actually read on your phone
or listen to.
It's awesome.
Like, you can read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I'm sure
you've already read it, you can get a refresher
in fifteen minutes or less, like, while
you're jogging or while you're on your way to work,
you can get all that inspiration.
So, Blinkist, it's absolutely awesome, you've
got to check it out.
- This is Seth, REtipster.com, and for me right now
I think one of the most common apps I'm using
on my phone is called Trello.
And, I use Trello a lot because it really does a
good job of helping me visually keep track of
my to-do list, things I'm working on, properties
I'm trying to sell, direct mail lists that I'm
trying to work, blog posts I'm trying to write.
I mean, you name it.
It just helps me to, you know, visually keep track
of where I'm at with things, so I can always kind
of know where I'm at, what's coming up,
and what still needs to get done.
And while we're at it, what's your favorite
smartphone app?
Why don't you leave a comment below.
We can all learn a little bit more from each other.
Thanks for watching, talk to you next time.
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