I've built several real estate sites myself, have had some of the same
requests, and haven't found it to be a problem. My experience is that most
people don't see this as a unique category/subcategory system, but rather as a
general grouping. That is, there will be Industrial Land and there will be
Industrial Investment properties - most people won't find that confusing. This
is the way the MLS handles it as well (I work for an MLS company, so I have
some experience here).
I hope that helps to ease your troubled mind a bit.
- Sterling
----- Original Message ----
From: Micah Freedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: IXDA list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 8:16:41 PM
Subject: [IxDA Discuss] help with categorization/client relation
Hi,
I'm working on a commercial real estate site, and I'm having a bit of
trouble coming to agreement with my client on categorization. He wants
a two-level category scheme, which is fine. The problem is, he want
some terms at both levels of the categories, thus:
Commercial
Automotive
Mixed
Restaurant
Retail
Warehouse
Industrial
Flex
Manufacturing
Warehouse
Investment
Commercial
Industrial
Land
Office
Land
Commercial
Development
Industrial
Multi Family
Office
Office
Corporate
Professional
Warehouse
Basically, the problem is with the Land and Investment super-
categories, which have the other TLC's as their sub-cats (for the most
part). My instinct is that that will be confusing. (I don't mind
having Warehouse under both Commercial and Industrial, though.)
Am I being too rigid? Can anyone point me to any research on this
question? (I would imagine that there's been tons.)
TIA
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