Archive for March, 2008

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.

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 [...]

Roll call of Third Party IDX providers

By: Craig Frooninckx,
Posted: Monday, March 24th, 2008, 3:02 pm MST
Category: Wish List

Okay, so I’m curious about the third-party IDX companies everyone is using.  I’d like to know who you use, who you’ve used?  What you like and don’t like about them.  I’d also be curious about those that you would like to use, but are not currently partnered with ARMLS.

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, [...]