Archive for January, 2008

Further Leveraging IDX Feeds

By: Jonathan Dalton, DaltonsAZHomes.com
Posted: Wednesday, January 30th, 2008, 7:58 pm MST
Category: Wish List

As part of membership in the Arizona Regional MLS, each agent has access to an IDX feed for their website. It’s a basic search, based (painfully) in a frames format that can be dropped onto a page. The theory is someone can search for homes and if they like what they see from the rudimentary [...]

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 Gets It

By: Michael Wurzer, flexmls.com
Posted: Sunday, January 20th, 2008, 8:28 pm MST
Category: Bob Bemis, Video

Here’s a comment Bob Bemis, ARMLS CEO, left over on the FBS Blog following a post about video.  A new day has dawned when MLS leaders start talking like this:
Greg Kilwein’s quote is important. I’m convinced that MLSs need to reexamine their purpose, their definition, and their mission in the face of growing competition [...]

Wish List: Replicating the territory

By: Cathleen Collins, DistinctivePhoenix.com
Posted: Saturday, January 19th, 2008, 12:39 pm MST
Category: Wish List

I know we’ve been promised improvement in our ability to search by map. I hope this includes the ability to copy a territory that we’ve already mapped out into a new search. Quite often my buyer clients discover me because they are looking for homes in a particular vicinity of Distinctive Phoenix: certain historic areas [...]

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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