Do you JING?

As you can tell by my photo, I'm not the most technically adept individual...but every once in a while I do learn a new thing or two.

This past weekend, I was going over some market data with a fellow real estate appraiser and he introduced me to free program called JING. Oh wow, is this program cool...especially for someone like me who doesn't do so well with many different types of programs which have data / graphs / charts etc that are not easily printed out or copied and pasted.

So, if you get a chance, take a look at JING. Essentially it is a screen capture tool that allows you to do whatever you need to without getting constrained by margins/formatting/scale etc. Based on the current appraisal of a Lake County successful restaurant, I was able to capture and reference graphs directly from the US Census website as well as FEMA (of course providing appropriate source references) but OMG...this program sure is easy and powerful.

if I did this right, they even have their own screencapture link where you don't have to send the 'media' can just send a link to minimize bandwidth....http://screencast.com/t/8icT01uGh

or you just cut and paste.....Voila:

ok, enough about a non-real estate topic...back to real estate

Michael Hobbs, PahRoo Appraisal & Consultancy