Once upon a time, there was no real estate blogosphere for me to occasionally fit in with. There were about ten real estate bloggers, and I was the eleventh.

Or heck, I don’t know. I didn’t run a survey. Maybe I was twelfth — darn, that eleventh guy is so touchy I have to watch everything I say!

I do know that at the time my web site was pretty cobbled together. I was running RadioUserLand to blog. Also, I’d yet to create a database of listings of my own to play with, so when I wanted to publish listings, I used to upload custom CSV files for every type of listing, and instead of importing them into a database, I’d just parse the CSV files and display them.

Looking back on it now, it’s a wonder I didn’t stir coconuts for electricity and close my car doors with duct tape.

Later on I created a listing database, and naturally that made things a lot easier.  This database became the core of such features as the maps and listing lists on SacramentoHomeShopper (see for example the listings-by-zip-code lists for Sacramento County, Placer County, and El Dorado County). The same database also feeds the condo listings section, the new homes section, and the foreclosure search page.  Etc. etc.

Now all that was well and good, but one thing that I never did get around to until this week was creating a database table for the original duplex listings. The table’s in place now, as code to import the data from Metrolist, so it shouldn’t be long before the completely old and long-in-the-tooth duplex page gets finally fixed (no, I’m NOT linking to it until it is) and gets a few new siblings, the triplex, fourplex, and everybody-plex pages.

Give me another couple of days to code it or so and I should have an announcement.

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