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Type free text messages from your PC

Being one who has never been good at the all thumbs entry for text messages I longed for a better way. If you are like me and can type faster from your PC and like the bigger keyboard here's your solution:

Just enter the cell phone number followed by the domain as the example shows 2145551212@teleflip.com

Enter a subject line and type a brief message. The message will be sent to the phone. It's free to the sender but the recipient will be charged for the text message according to his plan.

If a buyer that a realtor is working with is meeting them at a property and calls for the address while driving, just message his cell phone and he'll have the address record right in his hand and it's safer than writing while driving.

A nifty idea that's very easy to do.

 

Comments

That is a pretty cool tip.  Can the person on the phone text back to your emaiL?
Posted by Roswell Georgia Real Estate Agent - Nancy Rivera (RE/MAX Town & Country) over 2 years ago
Nancy, I think this service is a PC text to phone service. Ordinary texting is phone to phone. To do phone to PC I believe you would need a PDA/phone combo like a Blackberry that already takes in full email. Then essentiallly you are doing email to email, and not texting.
Posted by Gary Woltal - Associate Broker REALTOR® Dallas Ft. Worth (Keller Williams Realty) over 2 years ago
Thanks Gary.  That's what I thought, too, but needed to ask as I was not totally sure.
Posted by Roswell Georgia Real Estate Agent - Nancy Rivera (RE/MAX Town & Country) over 2 years ago
Nancy, I double checked on the Teleflip web site and if you set the service up to receive emails form Senders you approve you can read in blocks of 120 character inbound emails. So if you know Bob and you text him from your PC to his phone he can hit reply back to you and his text will appear in your PC's email. But you have to set it up ahead of time defining the email addresses. For impromptu stuff, the basic messaging is what you would use. Teleflip is like light version of  email on the Blackberry or Treo. Similar services are from Google and Yahoo but they have limitations like they can't work on Verizon.
Posted by Gary Woltal - Associate Broker REALTOR® Dallas Ft. Worth (Keller Williams Realty) over 2 years ago
Gary - I have regular cell service with Alltel and I don't have a Blackberry or Treo.  I can text a PC or another phone - I can also send photos from my phone.  All you need is a phone that is compatible with a text program.  One point - I can only send photos via phone to phone if the receiving phone is a camera phone.
Posted by Carol Smith (Concept Builders/Shamrock Valley) over 2 years ago
I will try to keep this in mind.  I normally call the agent to make sure they are coming before I set my way into to motion.
Posted by Gary Bland (Century 21 All Islands) over 2 years ago
This is sweet information because it's always easier to text on the computer if you don't have a "Smart Phone" with a keyboard... thanks for the insight
Posted by Cape Coral Real Estate Scott Slocum & Associates 239-340-1384 (Florida Future Realty Inc.) over 2 years ago

That's cool - if you want to send to a verizon phone it would be 10digit#@verizon.net

Though I could turn this into a rant about someone getting charged to receive text messages...

Posted by Matthew Rosov, Certified Mortgage Planning Specialist (Amerisave Mortgage Corporation) over 2 years ago
The Teleflip messaging service works on all the carrier phone networks (my understanding) so you wouldn't have to know which carrier they have. Yes, let's not rant about costs on the phone company side.
Posted by Gary Woltal - Associate Broker REALTOR® Dallas Ft. Worth (Keller Williams Realty) over 2 years ago
Gary, thanks for the tip.  I booked marked this so I can pass it on to others.  I will check it out and see if I can use it.  Have a great day!  :)
Posted by REAL ESTATE AMERICA - Ernie Cabrera, CEO over 2 years ago
I will try this today. Great idea. thank you for the tip.
Posted by GITA BANTWAL, REALTOR BUCKS COUNTY, PA HOMES (ReMax Centre Realtors) over 2 years ago
I don't text message but the tip may come in handy.
Posted by Denise Allen Realtor@ Chesapeake, Hampton Roads (RealEstate.com. Realtors) over 2 years ago

Great tip, I just tried it out on myself.  This will come in handy while having text conversations with my better half....

Posted by Rob Gerhart (Keller Williams) over 2 years ago
Cool tip ... love the idea. Thanks
Posted by Nancy Moeller (Seven Gables Real Estate) over 2 years ago
Gary, thanks for sharing. I am trying to text more. I have enough call that I can not get other work done in a normal day. Anything to free up time.
Posted by Frank Rubi Kenner/Metairie LA Real Estate (Frank Rubi Real Estate Licensed in Louisiana) over 2 years ago
I think with this new tip I'll surprise them today with a text message. They'll think I'm so smart, and how did I figure that out. Try it with your friends and clients too.
Posted by Gary Woltal - Associate Broker REALTOR® Dallas Ft. Worth (Keller Williams Realty) over 2 years ago
great idea!!
Posted by charito indrisie about 1 year ago

This is great information.  I have been doing it and it does work.  I thought I had a tool on aol that let me set it up but I don't remember if I had to do that first.  TMOBILE = 10digits@tmob.net

 

Posted by Rosemary Brooks -Mother & Daughter (866)-750-8282 (Patrick Williams & Associates - 866-750-8282) about 1 year ago

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