If you’ve ever moved abroad or to a city you don’t know much about, you know how difficult it is to find a flat in advance. If you haven’t, well you can imagine. The problems are - you don’t know what the areas are like, it’s difficult to compare prices and looking at a list of available properties doesn’t give an overview of where they are located. If it is in another country with another language it makes it even more difficult.

Cristian Suazo, a dear friend of mine, has been working on homein.com, a property rental and property sales site for quite some time which aims to solve these problems. I have known about it for quite some time but the other day I stumbled upon a Spanish article about it that made me have another look. It really is a brilliant service!

The unique feature is that all properties are marked on a map, so you can immediately see where it is located. Each property marker has a colour representing a price level, hovering the mouse pointer over a marker shows the price. You can set a filter so that only flats within your budget are displayed.

At the moment the serivice is only available for a handful cities in Spain, namely - Barcelona, Madrid, Mallorca, Marbella, Costa Brava, Sant Cugat and Sant Just. I hope they roll this out for other locations around the world. If this had been available for the cities I’ve moved to and within, it would have saved me a lot of time and money!

You know it’s true.

I just have to write this post right this now, it can’t wait because tomorrow it won’t feel like does now. You’ll know what I mean in just a few seconds, read on.

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I have a list of domains that are up for renewal. Most of them I haven’t used for anything, they’ve been parked since I bought them and are only costing me money. They are not very generic but good for what I bought them for, it’s just that I’ve never come round to implement the sites that I had planned to. I’ve learned this now, if I come up with an idea I no longer start the project by buying a suitable domain. The thing is, if the site is good and useful, the domain name isn’t really that important, people will find and use it anyway. I also don’t need a separate domain for each project. I will only keep the very good ones and make use of them, anything else is stupid.