For Real Estate Agents

FOR REAL ESTATE AGENTS
The Greater Baton Rouge Home Finder
THE GREATER BATON ROUGE HOME FINDER IS YOUR REAL ESTATE RESOURCE FOR THE GREATER BATON ROUGE AREA. FIND HOUSES, LAND, TIPS FOR BUYERS, TIPS FOR SELLERS AND TIPS FOR REAL ESTATE AGENTS. The Greater Baton Rouge Home Finder covers the following Areas: Rouge, Ascension, Denham Springs, Walker, Watson, Baton Rouge, Livingston, Albany, French Settlement, Springfield, Gonzales, Prairieville, Central and the immediate outlying parishes.

Links to free software.
Don't buy any software for your computer yet. Below is a list of my favorite free software that will make your job much easier. There is everything from office tools to photo editing to computer security. There is everything a real estate agent could need.

OpenOffice
Open Office is a free open source clone of MS Office. It contains a Database, Spreadsheet, Presentation, and Word Processing programs along with a few others.

GIMP
GIMP is another Open Source software product. It is versatile photo editing program. It is very user friendly and there are hundreds of tutorials on Utube.

InfranView
Infranview is a great program for resizing, renaming and reformat photo individually or in bulk. You can also change size and manipulate color and exposure.

PortableApps Suite
PortableApps is a group of programs made to run from a thumb drive. There are many programs to choose from. OpenOffice, Gimp, Thunderbird Email are just some of the programs in the suite. You never have ton worry if the computer you will be using will have the programs you need installed because you have your PortableApps Suite in your pocket.

Inkscape
Use inkscape to to create mailers, flyers, business cards and more. It is an open source program that roughly equivalent to Freehand or Adobe illustrator.

PDFCreator
This is a great program too. PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into PDF format. It allows you to select PDFCreator as your printer, allowing almost any application to print to PDF. This will save you lots of paper.

Thunderbird
Thunderbird is a clone of Outlook Express. Very simple to use and set up. You can add extensions to Thunderbird, such as Lightning (a calendar and task list), to add functionality to it.

AVG Free Edition
AVG Free is a great anti-virus program. It is easy to use and update. I have been using it for 5 years without a problem. Only one thing , do not set it for automatic scanning. It slows the system down.

Ad-Aware 2008
This is the adware and spyware cleaner I use. It does a pretty good job.

C Cleaner
This is the ultimate system cleanup tool. You can repair your registry, get rid of all the cookies hidden on your hard drive, and remove unwanted programs.

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