The Low Down
Delaware Real Estate Investors Association provides lending and education to those in the real estate investment business. They currently have a calculator set up on their site but you have to fill out an excel document and email it. I thought it would be helpful to make this web based.
The entire process needed to be dynamically updated throughout the entire page. If the customer updates the property price or fix up costs, it needs to update a number of different fields throughout the page.
Because these are custom calculations, the entire page required custom programming. We used extensive PHP and JQuery using POST and GET to give and receive data throughout the page without having to reload the page. We used change function to dynamically update fields / calculations as the customer typed.
Next we included 2 different API calls to Zillow for Zestimate (ARV), taxes, beds and baths, as well as Google location services to get the exact address of the property.
Last we added the ability to have this information email to the customer and DELREIA as a PDF or Excel document and this data is all stored into a database using MySQL to give DELREIA access to all the information on the backend.
Additional Details
Because there is quite a bit of information required to calculate Profit, it was to much to put on one page. Using JavaScript we created collapsible containers that display the sum of those containers in the container header.
In an attempt to keep the busyness of verbiage on the page, we created hover popups over areas that required more information.
This was built on our local server and once they’re ready will be moved to the customers website and eventually will be integrated into an App using complied REACT programming.
