Columbia County FL School Zone Maps

Columbia County School Zone Maps!! Nice. Been looking for this. :)
You can check out the maps to find out what school your future home is located in here in Lake City, FL. Columbia County, FL School Zone....

http://www.columbia.k12.fl.us/schoolzones.html

Natonal Property Values Chart

This is pretty interesting, if you draw a average trend line from prior decades, it still equals a slow average value increase. These charts really show the abnormality of the recent boom & then crase...

Short sales: Playing by the new rules
The U.S. Treasury hopes to speed transactions under new rules, but details count. Realtors should understand the process. Read more.

Click here to view the file with all the details... lots of pages...

New Mapping Links - Lake City FL Real Estate Maps

Here are a few more of my mapping & data integration test today..

Check out the bing map here...
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=30.163284737060415~-82.6371002196172&lvl=12&sty=r&cid=D08284CF0AD70187!1791

More Geocoding on some higher priced ranged homes in Lake City, FL area...
http://www.batchgeocode.com/map/?i=b79bff4f84e7f4095431ced95068b027

More Google mappping options for real estate by Chad Stewart...
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=30.190541,-82.65976&spn=0.208321,0.301094&z=12&msid=104192750246703441241.000479fd0a1c26b45d8b0

Here are some great houses!!
http://www.batchgeocode.com/map/?i=fd10240ef068cf35ba12d2e70393d960

Nice listings of Lake City FL properties on Google...
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&output=georss&msid=104192750246703441241.000479fd0a1c26b45d8b0

Mapping & Data Tools

There are some very cool tools for exporting your listings to google maps, google base, msn maps etc...

If you want to get all your listings, or even several hundred listings from your MLS on the maps & web for all to see., check out these steps.. (extensive knowlege of excel, tab delimited text files, google earth, general data management required)

First export all your data files, etc into an excel file & save as a tab delimted.

Using this website at http://www.batchgeocode.com/

It will automatically add a latitude & longitute to each listing... you can then save as a KML Google Earth file, or save as a webpage like this.. http://www.batchgeocode.com/map/?i=d583d2a021ed09c64ded46c4383dfd15

Then in Google maps you can import the KML file to create a cool page with all your listings mapped..

or save as another rss feed, webpage,etc... http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&output=georss&msid=104192750246703441241.000479fc0d5ef072a01c1

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=104192750246703441241.000479fc0d5ef072a01c1&z=10


View Lake City FL Homes & Real Estate in a larger map

Good Florida overview--website
http://www.fldashboard.com/

Take a look at the affordability index...it is off the charts at 166.

This means the average buyer has 166% of the necessary income to buy a median priced home.
http://bit.ly/91pRDL

http://www.floridarealtors.org/NewsAndEvents/article.cfm?id=227866

this looks like it will make the short sale process much easier!

http://www.floridarealtors.org/NewsAndEvents/article.cfm?id=227870

A good report from the "always optimistic" Lawrence Yun