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By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Monday, May 26th, 2008, 8:08 am MST
Category: General Information
Here’s a cute bug I just discovered last week:
When AAR updates a form, as it does with wanton abandon, you are obliged to download that revised form into ZipForms.
Hurray! Everything is always up to date!
With one exception….
Any standing templates you have prepared in ZipForms are not updated with the new forms.
You read that right. If [...]
The Foreclosure Blackhole So Dark Not Even Light Can Escape
By: Robert Nield,
HomeSearchByMap.com
Posted: Thursday, April 17th, 2008, 3:23 pm MST
Category: General Information
I’m a stats guy. I love crunching numbers, but sometimes it is difficult to comprehend what the numbers truly mean without a good visual representation . For the last couple of weeks I have been developing a foreclosure site using Google Maps. I’ve discovered some interesting things about the foreclosure market in Phoenix. This picture [...]
Now that ARMLS has its own weblog for the flexmls transition, how should The Phoenix Real Estate Technology Exchange refocus its efforts?
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Wednesday, April 16th, 2008, 7:36 am MST
Category: ARMLS, Conversion, General Information, flexmls Web
When we started this weblog last October, my own objective was to have a place where tech-savvy Phoenix-area Realtors could discuss technology issues, sharing that information with our less tech-obsessed brethren. The expedient impetus was the ARMLS transition to flexmls, but at the time we also discussed the deplorable state of ZipForms and the advent [...]
Single Property websites in Realtor Remarks
By: Cathleen Collins,
DistinctivePhoenix.com
Posted: Friday, March 28th, 2008, 11:41 am MST
Category: General Information
As Greg has already pointed out, we were perplexed with the new MLS rule against promoting single property websites in the MLS. One of BloodhoundRealty.com’s value propositions is our transparency… We are anti-hoarders of information. So moves like this new MLS rule seem antiquated, backwards to us. Give people as much information as they can [...]
No more web sites in the remarks section? ARMLS drops the hammer on the one little bit of the 21st century it was getting right
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Thursday, March 6th, 2008, 12:41 pm MST
Category: General Information
I read about the outlawing of web site URLs in listings on the “Welcome to Tempo” page of the Arizona Regional Multiple Listings Services (ARMLS), but I wasn’t certain it meant what it seemed to mean. Since I have been a Realtor, we have promoted our single-property websites in the remarks section of the listing, [...]
May the gods rain down their every blessing upon the head of Bob Bemis: ARMLS goes proactive instead of being endlessly reactive
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008, 8:42 am MST
Category: General Information
I saw this on the announcements page on ARMLS, but having the reality of the idea in my email inbox is much more powerful. Instead of dealing with the inevitable follow-up calls about listings that didn’t really close or expire, ARMLS is reminding Realtors to clean up their messes before they make them:
Wednesday, January 23, [...]
Introducing Craig Frooninckx
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008, 9:43 am MST
Category: General Information
We’re adding another new contributor today, Craig Frooninckx:
Craig FrooninckxRealtor, TechnologistCraigsArizona.com
In his own words:
For the past 15 years I’ve been involved with the design and development of very large database systems. I was struck with the Real Estate bug at an early age helping my father with his real estate investments. After moving to Phoenix, I [...]
Bob Bemis at ARMLS is looking for a few good geeks
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Friday, December 28th, 2007, 8:19 am MST
Category: General Information
This is email from Bob Bemis at ARMLS:
We’re going to do some focus groups in January as part of a long range strategic planning exercise. The groups are people with a specific focus (luxury housing, or technology oriented agents) or in a similar sales demographic (large broker, small broker, top producers). I’d like one group [...]
Introducing a new contributor: Dru Bloomfield
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Friday, December 28th, 2007, 8:12 am MST
Category: General Information
We’re adding a new voice today, Dru Bloomfield, a Scottsdale Realtor and life-long technologist:
Dru BloomfieldRealtor, TechnologistAtHomeInScottsdale.com
Speaking in her own behalf:
Having been involved in technology for more than 30 years (yes, I built 8-bit computers in college for fun), and armed with graduate degrees in business and computer science, I find myself in the midst of one of the [...]
Michael Wurzer Opines on theMLS
By: Jay Thompson,
PhoenixRealestateGuy.com
Posted: Monday, December 10th, 2007, 8:56 pm MST
Category: General Information
Michael Wurzer is the President and CEO of FBS Systems — the company that will be providing our MLS service come July 1, 2008.
Here’s Michael talking to Joel Burslem on Inman TV at the NAR Convention in Vegas a few weeks ago. In the video, Michael discusses the evolution of the MLS, MLS consolidation, [...]
Open MLS Initiative Dies in Maine
By: Jonathan Dalton,
DaltonsAZHomes.com
Posted: Wednesday, December 5th, 2007, 4:01 pm MST
Category: General Information
The details soon will disappear behind Inman’s subscription filter but the basic gist is Dave Barry has pulled the plug on his Open MLS initiative for lack of funds.
For those who had not heard of the initiative, here’s what I wrote 14 months ago on Active Rain about it:
But there is a dollar to be [...]
MLS Information Revolution
By: Robert Nield,
HomeSearchByMap.com
Posted: Friday, November 23rd, 2007, 7:04 pm MST
Category: General Information
The age of closed databases and outdated design is almost over. From someone who has been trying to crack the MLS map nut using Tempo and having to do some pretty tricky things to accomplish it, I could not be more happy with the changes coming. Let us usher in a time when the [...]
The mother of invention: Greg’s IDX
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Friday, November 16th, 2007, 8:52 pm MST
Category: General Information
Our IDX bill came due today. A boatload of money for the next twelve months, even though the system is going to break itself in eight months, when the new sheriff comes to town.
So: I said kill it. The leads we get from it have stunk, and the free ARMLS solution is adequate for now.
I [...]
“The revolution of the web involves us all individually and gives us an opportunity to participate in the revolution”
By: Greg Swann,
BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Friday, October 26th, 2007, 8:39 am MST
Category: General Information
Michael Wurzer at the FBS Blog:
The other day, I was cooking dinner and my kids were watching Hannah Montana or Suite Life or some other Disney show on the computer in our kitchen. I asked them why they were watching on the computer with a relatively small screen when they could watch it on the [...]
Open Nationwide MLS, It’s Coming With or Without NAR
By: Robert Nield,
HomeSearchByMap.com
Posted: Sunday, October 21st, 2007, 9:26 pm MST
Category: General Information
Dale Stinton (NAR CEO) alluded that NAR is working on a combined MLS database during Inman’s Real Estate Tech Conferance earlier this year.
Real Estate Video by - Real Estate Blogger
Does NAR have what it takes to create a nationwide MLS? Sadly, probably not. The real estate industry has been playing catch-up with technology [...]
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