About Peter & Drew

Both Peter and Drew are active real estate agents

who have tried everything and narrowed down what works on social media – and just as importantly what is a waste of time or money.

Peter Toner

Peter is a self acknowledged "techie" agent who uses the web to find buyers and sellers for his team. He was placed 8th in the US in a 2007 survey of real estate agents ranked by web visability by Esourceagent – click graphic for larger image.

Peter arrived from the UK in February 1997. Not knowing anyone in the US he started his real estate career trying what his Broker recommended; doing open houses and doing office floor time.

This did not sit well with Peter and it certainly didn't suit his style.

In 1998 he started building websites with a trusty copy of Microsoft Frontpage.

While toiling away in his cubicle another agent in his office asked incredulously "You want to meet people on the Internet?" to which his responces was

"OOhhh, yes please".

His first internet buyer soon found him and after that, there was absolutely no looking back.

Bingo! He had found his niche and has not looked back since!

Since the advent of blogging Peter has developed 2 real estate related blogs and is currently developing a 3rd. The first blog 

real-estate.SanDiegoRealEstateAgent.com 

was launched in 2004 (yes, Peter is always an early adopter). The second:

 foreclosed-SanDiego.com

was launched fairly recently, in November 2008, focusing on foreclosures. This site started getting traffic just a week or two after launch. Both rank well for targeted keyword search terms. Click graphic for larger image.

Drew Burks

Drew is an innovative real estate broker who has built a successful real estate brokerage in San Diego by providing his agents the newest resources & systems to increase their business.

Drew is a 3rd generation Realtor® and got into real estate in 2001 after spending his first 3 years in San Diego building a technology company that delivered high speed wireless internet to residential communities.

Drew decided to sell his technology company to pursue a career in real estate. He spent several years hopping around from company to company, he struggled to understand the business.

Then one day his Broker explained to him the importance of being an expert in a niche. He listened to his Broker and took immediate action to become an expert on the 2-4 unit niche market. 

Within a few short weeks had closed 8 transactions. Drew hasn’t looked back. Now that Drew understood how to generate leads and set himself apart from the thousands of Realtors® running around town, he got his Broker’s license and opened Dream Design Realty, with the mission to provide a better way for Realtors to succeed in Real Estate.

 His passion for helping others led him to build a Web 2.0 site for his agents. The site provides his agents an online control panel for easy access to all the tools & resources they need to efficiently manage their business.

The site also provides a private online forum so that all Dream Design Realty agents can communicate amongst themselves to share tips & tricks, to comment on each other’s listings and more.

After only 3 years as a Broker, Drew was awarded the prestigious Broker of the Year Award by San Diego Association of Realtors.

WebRealEstateTools.com is the evolution of the above site. Peter and Drew are now able to make all of our expertise available to fellow real estate agents.