The Real Estate CyberSpace Society scours over tons of real estate sources on the web daily. When they find one that rates a "Top 25" ranking it appears in the "Top 25 CyberTools" section at the site, which is loaded with real estate resources. A visit here can save you a lot of time and zero you right in on the major tools real estate professionals and their clients use constantly.

Here is one spot from which you can directly and easily get to all of these super real estate CyberTools the Internet provides -- ones that quickly help you perform many useful tasks. Find anyone's e-mail address, phone # (with cross reference directories); make maps, check mortgage rates, translate messages, find out how much your property is worth, get SEC filings, check census data, check out a lawyer and even see the chimney on your house from a Russian spy satellite.

How much does your neighbor earn?

Wouldn't it be neat to find out what your neighbor (or brother in law) is earning? Well here's a place where you can get salary information on thousands of job titles. The Salary Wizard calculates salaries based on job title and geographic location.

For example: "A typical (bank) teller working in Boston, MA 02114 is expected to earn a median base salary of $20,340. The same teller working in Nashville Tennessee -- is expected to earn a median base salary of $17,667. A Chaplin in Nashville: $41,279.

As of February 2001, the site reports that a "typical Real Estate Sales Agent working in the United States is expected to earn a median base salary of $29,294. Half of the people in this job are expected to earn between $28,618 and $37,298 (i.e., between the 25th and 75th percentiles)."

The Salary Wizard contains just about every job category in every section of the US with over 60 main categories --and most of those have a dozen or so sub categories.

And if you are a Sous Chef in Eugene, Oregon you earn $35,433 -- plus all you can eat!

The sum total of all human knowledge

Want to see everything that your competitor has said in newsgroups and forums on the web? Deja.com is the place! Someone said that the sum total of all human knowledge is posted to the Internet every two weeks! Here is how to search all the newsgroups and forums with a simple click!

A simple search box pops up that is the search equivalent of fast food. Just enter a keyword or words and click Search. The results page contains the text of messages that match your search criteria. You can search on keywords, subject, forum, author (who wrote it) and date fields.

The long and short of it is that with this magic trick you can check out anything that anyone has had to say--and who said it!

Another monster referance source

If you need even more convincing that the Web is one huge repository of valuable and useful information, your proof is right here!

The folks at Refdesk.com say, "The Internet is the world's largest library containing millions of books, artifacts, images, documents, maps, etc. There is but one small problem in this library: everything is scattered about on the floor, with growing hordes of confused and bewildered users frantically shifting through the maze, occasionally crying out, "Great Scott, look at what I just found!"

Well, now this powerful reference tool has organized the giant library to cover most major reference books, periodicals, newspapers, columnists, etc. There aren't many facts left out! "The single best source for facts on the Net" is how they bill themselves. They may be right!

Published: February 9, 2001

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John M. "Jack" Peckham is the Executive Director of REcyber.com (the Real Estate CyberSpace Society). In that capacity he oversees the development and delivery of the latest up to the minute Real Estate Cyberspace tools, strategies, networking structures and services that the Society provides its members to leverage their effectiveness, visibility, professionalism and earnings. As host of Real Estate CyberSpace Radio, he provides over 40 hours of programming to help listeners integrate the power of the Internet into their daily business lives. He is the author of several real estate books published by Prentice Hall and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich including his latest Master Guide to Income Property Brokerage from Wiley Publishing. A columnist for the Boston Herald for nine years, his syndicated columns have appeared in over 100 papers nationwide. Jack loves to sell real estate has been involved directly in the sale of over one billion dollars in Real Estate. Today he sells in his jeans and fuzzy slippers as a one-man shop and has closed over $40,000,000 in sales on the Internet recently in 20% of his working time. The balance he spends directing the affairs of the 10,000 member Real Estate CyberSpace Society. The Society awards the RECS (Real Estate CyberSpace Specialist) Designation to members based on the current criteria. He served as Chairman of the Strategic Planning Committee for the National Association of Realtors (NAR), is a Past President of the Massachusetts Association of Realtors and has been honored as the Massachusetts State Realtor of the Year. You can reach Jack at or by calling 617-523-4441.