Worthington real estate

 

 

Irina from Pasadena (Irina Netchaev an ActiveRain member) Twittered about Squid Zipper from the Keller Williams Family Reunion...Irina's tweet:  

Seth Godin announces free svc www.mayorofyourzipcode.com. free website to build info on your town. 07:41 AM February 12, 2008 from web

(Twitter is microblogging 140 characters...)  

so I built a Squid Zipper "lens" for my ZIP code, 43085 the day Irina twittered about Squid Zipper.  I had trouble publishing my Squid Zipper lens for 43085 for some reason so it was not published until 2/19/2008. I probably forgot all about the Squid Zipper lens for a week... but I published it.  It's had one view.  Me? 

Tina the Columbus blogger who writes Green Buckeye emailed me Seth Godin's 2/21/ 2008 post the other day....

Advice for real estate agents (quit now!) 

to paraphrase Godin, there's a plan A and a plan b...

Plan A: You should quit selling real estate.

Plan B: this is where Squid Zipper comes in...

Gee if those are our choices maybe I need to take this Squid Zipper thing more seriously.  I went back and edited and added some info to my Squid Zipper lens.  Links to the municipalities in the ZIP code and the school district.  The rest of it did come directly from the Squid Zipper questions, prompts.  I also went and read on Wikipedia what it said Squidoo is. I have another Squidoo lens there somewhere... I started a lens looooong ago.  Squid Zipper is easier, it is more organized than just "add a lens."    Squid Zipper adds stats, a pie chart (I love stats and pie charts but I have no idea if the stats for an an area like this mean anything...) weather, restaurant ads, ebay ads and more ads...

My Squid Lens for Columbus Ohio 43085 

I don't really like building content that plasters on ads for other real estate agents, brokerages... but that's the reality of web 2.0 unless it is your very own site isn't it?  On Squidoo at least I believe the income on the pages is shared, unlike all the splogs that steal the content from my (your?) blog and make money off of it while advertising your competitors with my (your) content.

Questions for the Squidoo Gurus on ActiveRain:

Anyone else done a Squid Zipper page? 

Are you the mayor of your ZIP code?

Anyone who has had a lot of experience with Squidoo.. do you get a lot of spam on it? Do you have control over the lens and are you able to remove spam easily? 

How do you see Squidoo different than Localism on ActiveRain?

How do you see Squidoo different than sharing the same info on your own blog? 

Columbus Ohio 43085 ZIP code (Worthington Ohio.)

A great map that shows the area of the 43085 ZIP codes is on ZIP Code MAP but you will have to feed in the 43085 ZIP code n the 'Key Zip' box at the top to see the map of 43085 and the surrounding ZIP codes. The website says:

"The USPS considers zip codes to be delivery routes instead of areas. There may be differences between this depiction and actual zip code mailing address."

ZIP code means Zone Improvement Plan. A ZIP code is not an area, it is a route... a mail route.

ZIP Code 43085

If your home or work ZIP code is 43085... you live or work in:

Worthington Ohio

OR

Columbus Ohio

OR

Sharon Township

OR

Village of Riverlea

OR

Perry Township? earlier today I thought some of Perry Township was in the 43085 ZIP code... now I am not so sure... I knew of an address in Linworth which was in Perry Township which was not annexed into Worthington although all the other Perry Township addresses on the street had been...but that was 12 years ago.... Properties just a smidge northwest of this property are in Sharon Township.

Perry Township (?) Perry Township properties in the Worthington School District may be in 43235 ZIP code only now (ZIP codes change) properties are annexed.

Does it matter what ZIP code a house is in? Not that much in Central Ohio... your residence can be in the city of Columbus, in the Worthington School District and have a Westerville mailing address.....

Does it matter what municipality you live in? Very much for services.

For example Worthington Trash Pick UP vs. Columbus Trash Pick Up (a subject near and dear to my heart, I blog about Trash Pick Up on Discover Columbus all the time... ) I believe all of the 43085 ZIP code that is in the City of Columbus is NAVY. Another example would be to compare Columbus police and Worthington police service with information provided by those two municipalities.

Almost all.... but not all of the 43085 ZIP code is also in the Worthington School District... Not all of the Worthington School District is in the 43085 ZIP code.

If you want to visit the City of Columbus website say good-bye before clicking the link in the next sentence, you can seldom use your back button to return from that site to another page. Worthington Forest Condominiums is in the Columbus School District. Theoretically there could be more residences along the edge of the 43085 ZIP code that are in other school districts... Links to some other Central Ohio Public School Districts

The Franklin County Auditors site gives what school district and municipality each residence in Central Ohio is located in. Better to check that than make assumptions based on a mailing address or ZIP code.

And can ZIP codes change? You betcha!
From ZipSkinny.com for 43085:
43085 Weather... or maybe this is strictly Worthington weather...

 

Worthington, OH Current Weather

 

Compliments of Maureen McCabe Real Living HER Worthington