Philosopher maps out a database to live by.The age old adage that in real estate, it's all about location is as true today as ever. In the current climate of increasing access to technology, however, the more you know about location, the greater your chances of success. It was with that concept in mind that Jonas Rudofksy created one of the most powerful tools to assemble, analyze and report the latest in complete locational and spatial information. The 35-year-old Ruldolfsky was a philosophy major just out of Hunter College Hunter College: see New York, City University of. when he entered the real estate business. He quickly made a name as a deal-maker in the outer boroughs and founded a Williamsburg office for Newmark & Company by the mid 1990s. Rudofsky's experiences as a broker and his fascination with the philosophical concept of epistemology epistemology (ĭpĭs'təmŏl`əjē) [Gr.,=knowledge or science], the branch of philosophy that is directed toward theories of the sources, nature, and limits of knowledge. Since the 17th cent. , or the way we learn things, led to a belief that there had to be a better way to collect and organize the vast information on property and location that he was acquiring on a daily basis. Rudofsky always wanted to work for himself, and advances in computer technology and affordability convinced him that the time was right to create a service that would assemble the different leyers of available information on property and neighborhoods throughout New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. in one location. The result is MightyMap.com. While many services have emerged over the past decade that are adept at listing individual property information and space availability, this information is just one part of the equation. Geo-spatial data about the surrounding sur·round tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds 1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. 2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication. n. area is not taken into account. Crucial information on such things as zoning, land use, traffic count and transportation access was previously available only through hours of individual research and personal property tours that often resulted in a lot of aimless driving. MightyMap.com, an affordable subscription-based service, puts all this information and more at your fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. . While with the specific needs of the real estate trades in mind, the vast information made available through MightyMap.com has useful applications for a wide variety of fields, from marketing to vendor sales. Building permits, auction sales, foreclosures, comparables, community and school districts--almost every conceivable con·ceive v. con·ceived, con·ceiv·ing, con·ceives v.tr. 1. To become pregnant with (offspring). 2. category of information about a particular property in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City--has been layered onto an easy-to-navigate mapping system. "Realizing that there had to be a better way to organize this information instead of thumbing through notepads, researching and redrafting the same information for each individual deal, I started building a product around my personal experiences," explains Rudofsky. "Using readily available desktop mapping Using a desktop computer to perform digital mapping functions. applications, I discovered it was possible to create layers and layers of valuable information in one platform that could be of use to all sectors of the real estate industry, as well as a wide variety of other industry applications." Over four years, these layers of information were assembled to easily create data sets in a variety of ways, from the individual parcel, street map, zip code zip code System of postal-zone codes (zip stands for “zone improvement plan”) introduced in the U.S. in 1963 to improve mail delivery and exploit electronic reading and sorting capabilities. or borough to every building, lot and developable parcel in the city. For the first time, current information on tax liens Tax Lien A claim imposed by the federal government to liquidate a persons property until owing tax and debt is fully paid. Notes: Tax liens can be purchased from the government in the form of an investment. , auctions, foreclosure sales foreclosure sale n. the actual forced sale of real property at a public auction (often on the court house steps following public notice posted at the court house and published in a local newspaper) after foreclosure on that property as security under a mortgage or , zoning, traffic counts, land use, lispendens, building permits, tax values, comparables and a host of other factors is now available at one location. MightyMap.com combines the best of information available from a wide variety of sources into one, easy-to-use subscription service. The more you know about real estate, the more you appreciate how MightyMap breaks this data down into logical categories. Supported by daily online training sessions and telephone support, MightyMap has quickly become a great tool for a growing number of real estate professionals. "As a commercial real estate broker and investor first and foremost, I developed MightyMap as a simple, powerful and essential information tool for the real estate industry," says Ruldolfsky. "MightyMap serves your strategic interest in having a clear, concise, affordable source of complete spatial information at your fingertips. Best of all, you can evaluate MightyMap for free." "I believe that our well organized approach and rich data environment will make MightyMap an essential tool for any serious real estate practitioner." |
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