About Us

A top producing Realtor and an experienced business partner teamed up to create TextToKnow. The goal: to provide a service that will make you, the agent, more effective in the real estate profession. The result: a system designed to help you generate a higher income while operating more efficiently than ever before.

Scott Smolen has been a Realtor with ReMax from the first day he got his license in 1999. He was listed in Realtor Magazine’s “Top 30 Agents Under 30? in 2004 as his sales climbed over the $19 Million mark for the first time in his career. From that point, his team has sold over $40 million in residential real estate every year. Scott was inducted into the ReMax Hall of Fame in 2004. He achieved ReMax’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 after only 7 ½ years in the profession. Scott’s team is consistently one of the top producing ReMax teams in Maryland every quarter and he has earned the ReMax Chairman’s Club Award from 2003-Present.

Scott is respected among his peers in his marketplace for his innovative marketing ideas. He is consistently searching for new ways to improve his service so that his clients get the best real estate experience possible. Despite his business success and a tireless work ethic, every Realtor knows it is physically impossible to answer each inquiry that comes in 24 hours per day. Therefore he reasoned that a text on demand system bridges the gap of putting the information in consumers’ hands within a few seconds of requesting it no matter when the request is made.

Ed Brindley is an experienced businessman who has a deep technical background. Ed graduated from the University of Maryland with a Master of Science in Technology Management. Ed and Scott make a great team; their two entirely different backgrounds are a perfect complement. Ed has extensive experience in social networking and collaboration technologies. His management of large commercial and government projects prepared him to develop a functional and secure product. The simple basis for this system is bringing buyers and sellers together more efficiently than ever before. From that point, Ed and Scott began working on a system that would bring this idea to life.

TextToKnow helps bring buyers and sellers together better than any other in the industry. Scott uses this system today in his own business and has seen its benefits first hand. His sellers appreciate this approach as opposed to using “info tubes”, or other outdated techniques. Buyers enjoy the ability to get the price and details of homes nearly instantly when they are looking. This combination has led to more successful settlements than in the past.

  • Scott Says...

    In another sign that the housing market has hit bottom and rebounded the Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contracts signed in July, increased 3.2% to 97.6 from a reading of 94.6 in June, and is 12.0% higher than July 2008 when it was 87.1. The index is at the highest level since June 2007 when it was 100.7. 6 months of increasing contract activity shows us that there is a very good chance the bottom of the market occurred prior to this rebound. Nobody will know for sure until more time goes by, but the astute consumer should take note.

    • Ed Says...

      In only two years, the iPhone has dramatically transformed the mobile web. There's a tendency toward touchscreen devices for mobile web browsing; the iPhone has already claimed 50% of mobile web traffic. Google's Android OS was the only other platform gaining with 5%.Sadly, Palm continues its downward spiral. Scott needs something more modern and respectable - a BlackBerry, perhaps. Someone please pick him up off the floor![AdMob via mocoNews.net]