Mike Buls has been in the real estate business for many years, producing a monthly report that documents the status of the commercial sublease properties in Austin. Each month, he distributed spreadsheets to the commercial real-estate community, then collected, and summarized the results by hand. The process was time-consuming, labor intensive and inefficient.

Mike soon realized that he needed a database to generate his reports, and an online presence. He also recognized that a Web-based system for collecting information was vital to his ability to both maintain and grow his business.

During the development process, it became clear that this system needed to do more than produce reports on sublease properties, and BulsHodge.com was born.

We not only provided him with the tools he needed to streamline processes and an improved online presence; but we also developed a comprehensive broker service for bulshodge.com. Brokers can now manage information in the system about their listings as well as:

• Search the system for other listings
• Mail search results and individual listings to anyone
• Send broadcast mail to other members
• Download all broker information into a file that can be brought into a spreadsheet program or PDA
• Upload brochures and multimedia about their listings

The system is now regarded as the one of the most powerful and easy to use broker listing systems available on the Web and will be branching out to other locations nationwide in the near future.