Helping clients see the land in real time

How Lynn Butterfield uses LandGlide to guide clients across remote properties, show boundaries in the field, and bring parcel context into real estate conversations.

Lynn Butterfield, a real estate broker, photographed outdoors

Lynn Butterfield Real estate broker

A broker holding an unfolded paper plat map on a dirt road, gesturing at open rangeland below a mountain range, with a purple ribbon tied to an aspen beside a parked car

The challenge

Remote land is hard to explain from a plat map. In markets like Park City, Lynn often works with remote properties where directions can be informal and boundaries are difficult to understand on site. Before LandGlide, he described relying on plat maps and trying to match them to the land in front of him while clients asked where the property actually ended.

You will ask the listing agent, “how do I find your property?” They would give directions like “go this far down a dirt road and look for the purple ribbon on a tree.”

In the field

“See this dot?
This is where we are.”

With LandGlide, Lynn can pull up the property, show the client their location on the map, and walk them around the corners of the parcel. Instead of trying to interpret a static map, the client can see their position, the property lines, and nearby context while standing on the land.

Now with LandGlide, I can pull up a property and I say “see this dot? this is where we are” and then I will walk them around to the corners of the property.

A phone held up at the roadside, the app showing a parcel outlined in red with the location dot inside it

The walkthrough becomes clearer

Lynn uses LandGlide to help clients understand where the property lines are, how the land sits in relation to neighboring properties, and whether the parcel supports the view or layout they want. The product becomes a shared point of reference during the conversation.

Walking the corners

Clients can follow along as Lynn moves around the property, corner to corner.

See nearby context

The map helps show how the parcel relates to neighboring homes and surrounding land.

View & layout

Clients can better understand whether the property lines up with what they want.

Staying in the moment

The answer happens on site, while the client is still looking at the land.

A broker showing a parcel on a phone to three people on a hillside above a mountain valley

The outcome

A tool worth bringing to the whole MLS.

After seeing how much LandGlide helped his own business, Lynn brought it to the attention of the Park City MLS board members. Today, hundreds of realtors are using LandGlide through the MLS’s Corporate Account subscription.

LandGlide did because it is a great product and it is something that benefits everybody in the MLS.

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Read more stories about how people use LandGlide to understand parcels, answer questions, and work with land in the field.

Lucinda Striker, a realtor, standing outside a house she is showing

Helping clients see the land in real time

The challenge

“See this dot?
This is where we are.”