The IDX, Inc. team is elated to announce its newest client addition Hope MacManus with Home Finders Real Estate Group, in joining the rapidly expanding network of real estate agents and brokers choosing to advance the search function of their real estate websites by incorporating a custom IDX solution.

The modernized and innovative Internet Data Exchange (IDX) software and its relationship with and association to local MLS systems, enables MacManus to display Regional Multiple Listing Service (RMLS) listings, directly onto her website, saving home seekers the hassle of being redirected to different pages. They will be granted access to and endless amount of the most up-to-date property listing information on the Florence, Oregon real estate market.

This IDX Broker addition gives MacManus the opportunity to develop a truly custom and personalized online real estate business, with the ability to decipher which search options will be displayed on her site, in which she has chosen a basic search, an advanced search, a map search, an address search and a listing ID search. Each of these categories provide their own unique and distinctive traits, aiding prospective home buyers to narrow their search results, in efforts to find their ideal property. Also, each listings page supplies convenient and user-friendly links to email property details, contact the listing agent for more information, schedule a showing, view large photo galleries, print a flyer, take a virtual tour, calculate probable mortgage payments and even pinpoint their chosen property on a interactive Google Map, creating a nearly effortless online real estate search experience.

This is a bit out of the Real Estate Tips Niche, but it is a service targeted at Homeowners. Nations Power today announced that it is providing pre-paid and real-time pricing for electricity to customers in Texas. The company will be using a Our one-of-a-kind, state-of-the-art software which was exclusively developed for the company by SmartGridCIS and designed specifically for use with smart meters. According to the company, this is ideal for Homeowners who are having problems paying for high up-front deposits or high pre-payments with other electric providers.

This allows Nations Power to deliver electricity to customers who are having problems paying for high up-front deposits or high pre-payments with other electric providers. Nations Power is the first electric provider to implement pre-pay with real-time pricing anywhere in the U.S. Its pre-paid and real-time pricing products can utilize the nearly 1,000,000 advanced smart meters currently installed in Texas. The billing solution allows customers to pre-pay for power on a daily basis versus the traditional monthly post-paid or month-ahead estimated pre-paid methods. Plans are for nearly 6 million customers to have smart meters in Texas by 2013.

To pay for power, customers can access the Nations Power website and pay with a Mastercard or Visa debit card, or go to one of its 110,000 payment centers including Wal-Mart, CVS/pharmacy, and MoneyGram locations.

Chase today marked the official opening of new homeownership centers in the Bronx and Brooklyn to help families struggling with their mortgage payments. “We created these local Homeownership Centers as a place for our borrowers to sit down and discuss their situation face-to-face with trained loan advisors in these challenging times”

Chase now has five centers in the Tri-State area providing face-to-face assistance to distressed borrowers who have a loan serviced by Chase.

“We created these local Homeownership Centers as a place for our borrowers to sit down and discuss their situation face-to-face with trained loan advisors in these challenging times”

The Jersey City center is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and by appointment on Wednesday until 8 p.m. All other centers are open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday.

Customers who are late on mortgages from Chase, Washington Mutual or EMC may call the nearest homeownership center listed above to make an appointment with an advisor.

Customers may call (866) 550-5705 if they:

* Are current with payments but face financial hardship, which may lead to default
* Would like more information

The company opened 37 centers around the country since 2009, and plans to open 14 more by this spring.