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Real Estate Manager Documentation

In this article we will look at and explain the various fields in the Real Estate Manager Houses edit interface which are used when entering all Houses details manually.

Manual House entry in Real Estate Manager

To enter Houses manually in Real estate manager, go to Components > Real Estate Manager > Houses in the Joomla Administration backend, then click on the New icon in the top bar.

You will see the Houses edit screen (we will explain all fields below the screenshots):

Filling in the details is fairly self-explanatory, but here are the descriptions. On this screenshot you can find:

HouseID. This is the HouseID for your internal reference. Fill in your own internal HouseID here if you have set the option in Settings Backend for Auto-increment HouseID to NO. If you have set that option to YES, you do not need to bother with this field.

TIP about internal reference IDs (HouseIDs):

To make it easier for your internal administration, it is a good idea to use a numeric prefix for certain categories, for example all real estates in the category "Apartments" will have their HouseID preceded by "01", all houses in the category "Houses" will have their HouseID preceded by "02", etc.

Category. Select the category the House should belong to from the dropdown box.

Description. Enter the House description here.

Upload edocument. This point allows uploads the documents concerning this house. Real Estate manager upload supported most popular documents formats.

Edocument Download Link URL. You can add download link URL that users can download the edocument of this house, if they want.

Required fields

• Title. You can write full apartments title.
• Price type. Select type of house price negotiable or starting.
• Price. In this fields setup the price of house.
• Listing type. You may select the parameter foreclosure, house for rent, room for rent, for sale, now home, sublet.

On previous picture shown recommended to fill fields, they are explained below.

Address fields

• Address. Fill the address of location house.
• Owner. Were is owner of apartments.
• Latitude. Fill the latitude of location house or it automatically filled when you marked house on map.
• Longitude. Fill the longitude of location house or it automatically filled when you marked house on map.
• Click on the map to choose the house location. Moving the map with the hand-cursor find the house location and mark them.

Recommended fields

• Bathrooms. You can specify amount of bathrooms in this house.
• Bedrooms. You can specify amount of bedrooms in this house.
• Broker. You can specify who is a broker of this apartments.
• Listing status. Select the listing status in the dropdown box.
• Contacts. You can specify the contacts, by which the user can contact the seller.
• Property ownership. Select the property ownership in the dropdown box.
• Provider class. Select the provider class in the dropdown box.
• Built year. Choose the built year in the dropdown box.

Options

• Agent. You can specify who is agent of this property.
• Area. Specify the area of house.
• Expiration date. Specify the expiration date, click on calendar button and choose the date.
• Feature. You may specify features of apartments.
• HOA_dues. Specify the HOA_dues of houses.
• Lot size. You can write the lot size of real estate.
• Model. You can specify model of this apartments.
• Property taxes. You can the specify property taxes of this apartments.
• School. You can specify the number of school near the house.
• School district. You can specify the school district.
• Style. You can specify the style apartments.
• Zoning. You can specify zoning of this house.

Photo manage

• Upload main photo. To upload main photo click the Browse button, than select the necessary photo in your computer.
• Click to upload photos for house photo gallery. To upload other photos of house click the Add new photo > Browse buttons and select the photos in your computer.
• Select photos which are necessary to remove. You can select photos to remove.