flexmls Web

My blossoming love affair with flexMLS, the new MLS system adopted by the Arizona Regional Multiple Listings Service

By: Greg Swann, BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Friday, August 15th, 2008, 9:45 pm MST
Category: ARMLS, Conversion, flexmls Web

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is the F.Q. Story Historic District in Downtown Phoenix as rendered by the flexMLS MLS system recently adopted by the Arizona Regional Multiple Listings Service. ARMLS is 30,000 Realtors working in the fifth largest city in the U.S. — and the 14th largest market area — so this is a big MLS system by any [...]

FlexMLS wish lists: You’re running into problems, so let’s share them and see about getting them corrected

By: Greg Swann, BloodhoundBlog.com
Posted: Tuesday, July 29th, 2008, 6:47 pm MST
Category: Conversion, Wish List, flexmls Web

I’ll have a positive column about FlexMLS in West Valley sections of the Republic later this week, but I’m sure you all know that not everything is sweetness and light in the MLS world of Phoenix just now.
Here are three issues we’ve run into, so far. I encourage you to document anything you’ve found, as [...]

FlexMLS Beta Testing Underway

By: Dru Bloomfield, AtHomeInScottsdale.com
Posted: Friday, May 9th, 2008, 4:00 pm MST
Category: flexmls Web

A group of us in the land of ARMLS have been testing away with an early version of our new MLS system. 
I used to write code for Bell Labs and others, but never made a living as a system tester, so it’s been fun to change seats and try to break the code.  It is [...]

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 [...]

See FlexMLS Live and in Person

By: Dru Bloomfield, AtHomeInScottsdale.com
Posted: Monday, March 31st, 2008, 8:29 am MST
Category: flexmls Web

I’m involved with the Scottsdale Area Association of REALTORS® and helping to organize a Technology Symposium schedule for the morning of April 25th. 
In addition to guest speaker Keith T. Garner,  Managing Director at the Center for REALTOR® Technology, the symposium will feature four breakout sessions, one of which is dedicated to a live demonstration of FlexMLS by Sheila Strunk. [...]

flexmls Web Preview

By: Michael Wurzer, flexmls.com
Posted: Friday, March 28th, 2008, 3:17 pm MST
Category: Video, flexmls Web

Here’s another video previewing flexmls Web.  The video provided earlier wasn’t loading well for IE users, so we’re tying this one out.  Let me know if you have any trouble viewing it.

What do we really expect from our MLS?

By: Craig Frooninckx,
Posted: Sunday, February 3rd, 2008, 1:42 pm MST
Category: Bob Bemis, flexmls Web

I’ve given a lot of thought lately to what I would like our MLS to be able to do for me and for my clients. And you know what, the more I think, the less I want them to do for me. Sure, I would like it if they created RSS feeds for [...]

Another Look at FlexMLS

By: Dru Bloomfield, AtHomeInScottsdale.com
Posted: Saturday, January 12th, 2008, 5:21 am MST
Category: flexmls Web

The Scottsdale Association MLS Committee met earlier this week, and Sheila Strunk, kicked off 2008 with a demo of FlexMLS.  She convinced Michael Wurzer from FBS that our team needed to see what a live system looked and acted like.  Only a few minutes into the 90-minute demo, we were bouncing off our chairs, throwing out  “Can it do?” questions left and [...]

Listing Syndication From The MLS

By: Michael Wurzer, flexmls.com
Posted: Thursday, January 3rd, 2008, 10:08 pm MST
Category: Listing Syndication, flexmls Web

Here’s a question for the brokers reading this blog: Would you like the option, which you’d control, of syndicating your listings to sites like Google, Yahoo!, Trulia, Zillow, etc., directly from the MLS system?
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E-mailing, Printing and E-mailing Printing

By: Michael Wurzer, flexmls.com
Posted: Thursday, October 25th, 2007, 4:27 am MST
Category: flexmls Web

I wrote a post over at FBS Blog today about some interface design questions that might interest readers of this blog, too.

Preview of flexmls Web

By: Michael Wurzer, flexmls.com
Posted: Wednesday, October 17th, 2007, 4:31 pm MST
Category: flexmls Web

Here is a link to a video I made previewing some of the functionality in the flexmls Web system. The video is just over a half hour long and focuses on functionality coming available in our fall release due November 1. The video definitely could be clearer but, as is usual, I [...]