I've been using Hot Property for almost a year now. I would say that in some regard, all of the previous reviews are right. The product is decent out of the box, as is the Mosets Tree directory product made by the same company. Customization takes some digging into the Php and CSS, and there IS an advanced fields search (but you have to know where to find it and set it up).

The product is decent and the users in the forum, certain people in particular, can be very helpful and offer some good hacks. You will need this as the customer support is, from my experience, really poor. This is the biggest criticism I would have, as well as the documentation could be improved. Many users are passionate about the product and improvement suggestions have been made over and over, so I won't recount them here. But there is little constructive response from the developer who seems quite aloof from and unconcerned with his customers. There ARE moderators on the forums, but with poor communication skills.

To this date there is not even a definitive notice or news item on site as to the plans for Joomla 1.5. Discussions and rumors abound in the forums, but the developer snoozes.

The product has immense potential, but I am leery as to my future with it because of this lack of real communication from the developer.