What is th best website for the money that is user friendly?

Have you looked into Realtor Biz Builder? It's low-cost, user friendly to visitors and easy to manage. Check it out here - www.realtorbizbuilder.com

If you have the time-- the one you create yourself :) -- I have heard good things about some of the mods/themes they have for Joomla and Wordpress.

i suggest to build it on your own using wordpress. From experience I think wordpress is user friendly and search engine friendly depends if you use the tools right

Listanza.com has a free widget where you post and manage your listings free on Listanza and the widget will show only your listings on your website. They also have a Joomla module of the widget. The widget and module are at http://inthelab.listanza.net

They also syndicate the listings to Google, Vast, and Trovit

I use wordpress and it seems to be pretty user friendly.

Open Realty

I am an Approved Vendor for a company called www.Ubertor.com. They have thousands of Realtors using their templated websites.

They are magnets for search engines, easy to update and affordable. Best of all the first 4 months are only $ 1.00 and subsequent months are $ 37.00 or $ 57.00 inclusive depending on the number of listings. There is no contract so your options are open.

Just my two cents.

Ubertor is too expensive. Make a Joomla website, update it regulary with fresh content and add new properties all the time. Content should be relevant and it will give You best results. Also, it is much cheaper and You are in control all the time.

I just finished setting up my new site in WordPress. I have no experience in website design, and I would recommend any agent using it. It's an easy platform to use if you're not familiar with coding (like me!). I bought an RE template I really liked for $150 then paid someone in Bangladesh $109 to customize it. (www.KaneoheRE.com if you want to check it out)

It's easy to maintain on the back end. I didn't want to rely on someone else when I wanted to update content. My goal is to eventually blog a few times a week (which automatically pushes to my tweets!).

I heard Joomla is good too, but I've never tried it. A few other people in my office have their sites set up in Joomla and they love it too. But for me, once I tried WP I was hooked!

[color:#3366FF] [/color] I looked at your word press and it looks really nice... Can you tell me more how you did it. I was thinking of getting Linkurealty.. Is your site searchable in the search engine. etc..

[quote=hula lady]I just finished setting up my new site in WordPress. I have no experience in website design, and I would recommend any agent using it. It's an easy platform to use if you're not familiar with coding (like me!). I bought an RE template I really liked for $150 then paid someone in Bangladesh $109 to customize it. (www.KaneoheRE.com if you want to check it out)

It's easy to maintain on the back end. I didn't want to rely on someone else when I wanted to update content. My goal is to eventually blog a few times a week (which automatically pushes to my tweets!).

I heard Joomla is good too, but I've never tried it. A few other people in my office have their sites set up in Joomla and they love it too. But for me, once I tried WP I was hooked! [/quote]

so like me everyone love Wordpress. I also own a real estate website and really WP is best CMS one ever can think of..Easy to design, easy to integrate are some features that make it best

remember to get decent hosting though too. Some of the less expensive hosting companies get their IPs tagged as spam and you can have trouble getting emails through. This caused me a great deal of embarrassment.

Joomla is best to start with for website.

It really comes down to what do you have time or money? If you have time and enjoy the process of making a site wordpress is great. If you have not made a site it will take you a lot of time and energy. Weeks and weeks of time.
In some ways, if you don't mind paying, you are better off to go with a good system. Lots of people on this forum make nice sites.

Most DIY sites are half finished and or full of boiler plate. Very few agent put time and energy into making a great site.