Comments on: Google Street View – Great For House Buyers

By: Squawkfox » Halloween Costumes, Recipes, and Frugal Fun Oh My!

Squawkfox » Halloween Costumes, Recipes, and Frugal Fun Oh My! — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:54:52 +0000

[...] Google Street View – Great for home buyers (and for planning a trick-or-treat route) | Four Pillars [...]

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Weekly Roundup: Become a Frugal Dad Fan Edition | Start Living Frugal — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:21:13 +0000

[...] Google Street View – Great For House Buyers. We have been entertaining the idea of relocating here lately and have found Google Street View to scope out a number of properties in other cities. (@Four Pillars) [...]

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Weekly Roundup: Become a Frugal Dad Fan Edition | Frugal Dad — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:02:13 +0000

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Under the Weather Roundup — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:01:54 +0000

[...] Google Street View – Great for home buyers. @ Four Pillars. I find Google’s street view option very handy for finding places I’ve never been before. Four Pillars shows you how to use it and suggests how it can be applied if you’re in the market for a house. [...]

By: DAvid

DAvid — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:02:23 +0000

Geez, I used to live 2 blocks north of the intersection you chose! The house appears unchanged!

DAvid

By: Canadian Personal Finance Blog » Blog Archive » Random Thoughts on Gobblers

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:57:46 +0000

[...] Four Pillars point out that the new Google Street View is Great for House Buyers it’s also very useful for thieves, home repair scam artists, and voyeurs of all genres (but [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:30:35 +0000

I use it to find free parking downtown. I look for side streets and such so I don’t have to pay if I’m going to be their all day.

By: DavidV

DavidV — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:02:01 +0000

The house that I purchased in August shows the old owners moving (literally you can’t see the front of my house directly on since there is a moving truck there). So I think some of the photos are done in August.

By: Four Pillars

Four Pillars — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:46:06 +0000

I read in the Star that when the “Google cars” come to town – sometimes artists will follow the cars around and try to get noticed. Not sure how that works – I guess if you are in front of the CN tower when the photo is taken then you might get seen by quite a few people.

By: guinness416

guinness416 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:24:54 +0000

For people like me with a very poor sense of direction, it’s good to be able to actually see the office building/school/pub before you head off there – saves 20 minutes of walking the wrong way and back out of the subway station!

You can clearly see the Dublin sticker on the back of my husband’s car in our driveway, which I’m pleased about. I also think it’s interesting that the pictures were taken during the strike – torontoist.com has a bunch of highlights, but I wonder how city/tourism people are reacting to the piles of garbage and the picketers in the images of christie pits, lakeshore west, etc.