School Sites
One of the major concerns for parents when relocating are the new schools their children will be attending. There are several school sites out there with great information to help parents research a neighborhood.
One of the leaders is GreatSchools.net and has been for a while. There are others and one of the newest sites to ad information about schools is National Relocation. It is a relocation portal and has allot of school district information like revenue and expenditures, teacher - student ratios and students per class. They even have a section on the detailed school pages for parents to leave reviews. One of the benefits of using National relocation is that it is a relocation portal and has other related resources as well. One of them is there city data profiles sections. It allows you to research a specific location as well.
Both of these site are very helpful and useful resources for parents looking at new cities to live in.
MLS Boards Unite
162,000 Lockboxes to be Deployed as Part of New Multi-Year Agreement
SentriLock LLC, (http://www.sentrilock.com) a leading provider of electronic lockbox solutions for the real estate industry, today announced that the Regional Lockbox Consortium will convert its entire lockbox system to the SentriLock REALTOR® Lockbox solution.
In choosing SentriLock over competing lockbox solutions, officials with the Regional Lockbox Consortium — the largest group of its kind in the nation — lauded SentriLock’s system for its advanced technology and easy-to-use features. The Regional Lockbox Consortium comprises 21 REALTOR® boards throughout Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C. Originally organized by members of the Maryland Association of REALTORS® in early 2004, the group eventually organized as a separate corporate entity in March 2007 with the goal of upgrading their lockbox systems.
The Consortium will stagger its implementation over the next 24 months but has already begun purchasing some of the 162,000 lockboxes on behalf of their 45,000 members. Each individual REALTOR® Board or Association must still exercise their option to participate in the Consortium agreement with SentriLock. Read more