Hidden behind this page is The PropertyClubPro Property Bank. You will experience for the very first time a new technology that will absolutely change your thinking and the way you do business today. The Piggy Bank is the aggregation of commercial real estate properties harvested from the World Wide Web and transformed into "pure" data, unencumbered by static web pages or hidden away in propietary relational databases. The only word to describe the difference between all the other property listing services and what you are about to encounter here is "Liberation!" And with Freedom comes Wealth as represented by our URL favicon symbol the talisman for Health, Happiness and Wealth.

In a few simple steps, you will come to assay why ClubPro is not just another web site, but rather a strategic business application you will want to integrate into your daily operations. The Piggy Bank is the perfect analogy, easy to understand without much explanation required. Each property in the bank is a digital asset that is easy to access, manage and reuse. Our storage of “pure” information from different Web sites in the same data model, can offer a unified view on the “pure” information regardless of its many origins. Ok, so I lost you on that last statement.

Alright then, today you are Googling for a certain type of real estate investment and as the search engine churns you come up with dozens of sites that are only potential finds however you still have to visit each web site, drill down and look at the particulars. It's 4:00pm and you still have not found that gold nugget yet so you decide to try your luck with a listing service that has millions of listing. It is now Friday afternoon and you have been working all week to qualify candidate properties for consideration and due diligence. The results so far are not going to impress the boss or your client. Here is the solution to your mundane life and lack of productivity.Sample Screen Snapshot .Sample Screen Snapshot 2

The 1st thing you are going to need is a powerful extensible Web Browser called Firefox. You can quickly download and install this wonderful product in just minutes. Start it up the first time and take it for a test drive on the Internet.

The 2nd item you are going to need is a FireFox Extension from MIT called Piggy Bank. You can think of an extension as something like an add-on assessory to a power tool. For a browser it is a modular plugin. It greatly enhances the power and usefulness of the Web Browser and is the reason why we say Firefox is extensible. This step will probably be a 2 step process for most folks because the install might prompt you to install the Java Plugin first. Not to fret though, you will be easily guided through the process. The installation instructions for Piggy-Bank are located at http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Piggy_Bank_Installation for your reference as well as a link to the required Java Plugin. In case you do not see the link at the top of the Installation Instruction page, here it is Java Download for the PC If you are running Firefox on a Mac you can skip this step since Java is already available.. The Firefox security feature will likely prompt you for your permission to install the Piggy Bank extension. You will notice this as the first screen shot on the linked Installation page cited above.

Piggy-Bank is your Browser within a Browser. It can be activiated when you wish to visit any of our Property Banks including the Sample Bank hidden on this page. After installation and restarting your browser, Piggy-Bank will take a moment to initialize. With Piggy-Bank comes its own local Bank for saving ClubPro assets locally, a huge time saver. You can even share your own local bank with your associates. In order to view the PropertyClubPro Bank on this page, you will notice a small "coin" a blue triangular button in the lower right hand corner of your browser window. Left click on the "coin" and in a few moments you will open up a whole new world of exploration. You will immediately see the Piggy-Bank user interface. Each property has its own attributes and features yet keep in mind these come from all over the world. International properties for sale or lease as well as those in the US. You will not be required to create or invent multiple criteria searches or boolean "and" "or" word and phrases. The unique ability to filter toward your goals quickly narrows down the result sets Piggy-Bank returns for you. It gives you the perspective of examining investment properties as business cases even though the listings are not originating from the same broker, agent or seller. Once you have found an asset that meets your requirements, you will be able to quickly link back to the originating source and in most cases will be the representative or agent web site. Many of the resources may also be brochures or documents that go into the details.

You will be capable of achieving and finding a new level of value from data. Gone are the days when you have to post your listings in a dozen different listing services in hopes of being found or getting exposure. Our Public and Private Banks allows data to be mixed more easily and re-purposed for each person’s needs regardless of where the information comes from or how it is originally shown. Piggy-Bank will enrich the user experience without one having to leave the comfort zone of the Web browser.

In Conclusion, realize that if you have properties available for sale or lease, no longer will there be a need to spend time keeping your listings fresh on multiple listing service bulletin boards. You can either keep them updated in 1 of 2 places, your own Web site or with us at ClubPro to be included in the bank. For Investors, it is our belief that by making it infinitely easier to locate properties and navigate to them based on their conceptual requirements or analytics and removing the query mentality, Investors will find the best values in the marketplace and brokers will obtain leads to close deals more easily and quicker as a result of people empowered with precision data from PropertyClubPro.