A new twist on CL, view the ads for your pocket areas easily

I was getting tired of having to scroll through & read practically each ad on Craigslist to find those in my cash buyers targeted area. While Google-surfing around I tripped over this nice little gem of a site. Here's how to use it

Start with opening a tab going to your Craigslist area site of choice, click through to the real estate for sale listings. At the top of the page there is a search area. Select the number of bedrooms you want. We'll use "2" for this example and then click search again. When the results have loaded up, go into the address bar of your browser and copy the full url (address).

Now, open another tab and go to: http://www.earthify.org/ and paste your CL address you just copied into the box under "Option 1:Form" and then click on Submit.

After a few seconds...

This will take the listings from your CL search and map it on google maps. On the left under "mappable listings" you have your CL ads, click on each one and the description will come up on the map pointing to the corresponding place marker. Click down the list until you find the areas you're interested in and view the listings. You can zoom in/out on the map with your mouse wheel.

There may be a way to number or letter the listings so it's easier to correspond them to the map but I haven't found it yet.

Don't forget this is based on our 2 bedroom search example. You can play around with the different search criteria to get different listings mapped out. For example you could search for 3bd, real estate - by owner (drop-down menu) and others. Just remember to copy the address and paste it into earthify after every time you execute a different search.

Have fun!