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Realist Downtime – Saturday Night 11:30pm Realist will be completely offline Saturday evening from 11:30pm until 1:00am Sunday morning. This downtime will include all access to Realist including auto-population of tax data for listings in the the MLS. Schedule of Downtime Saturday, March 30, 2013:
1:00am – Full access to Realist restored, normal functionality resumes Please schedule any listing entry using Realist auto-population as well as Realist tax record searches before or after this downtime. You can still enter a listing with tax information manually. Only the auto-population of tax data from Realist will be unavailable. No other MLS functions should be affected by the Realist downtime. This downtime is for routine preventative maintenance of the Realist servers.
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Boat Dock – Please Update on Add/Edit For Residential, Land/Farm and Res Rental property types, the item “Permitted Boat Dock” has been removed from Add/Edit and Search in the Lot Characteristics field. The name caused confusion and was determined to be frequently chosen mistakenly. The exact meaning of “Permitted” and what it implied in regard to the “Permitted Boat Dock” was unclear. This pick list item has been removed completely from Lot Characteristics and Add/Edit. A new item “Boat Dock” has been added as a replacement. The new item “Boat Dock” appears in the Exterior Amenities Field. The name is simply “Boat Dock”. You should select Boat Dock in the Exterior Amenities field if this item is part of your listed property. PLEASE NOTE: You must manually select “Boat Dock” for your listing. Because of the suspected inaccuracy of the previous item in Lot Characteristics, no listings will automatically have “Boat Dock” selected based upon the old “Permitted Boat Dock” item.
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Cluster/Patio Home Features – Please Update on Add/Edit For Residential and Res Rental property types, the item “Patio/Cluster Home Features” has been removed from Add/Edit and Search in the Exterior Amenities field. The name caused confusion and was determined to be frequently chosen mistakenly because of the word “Patio” in the name. The pick list item has been removed from Exterior Amenities. A new item “Cluster/Patio Home Features” has been added as a replacement. The new item “Cluster/Patio Home Features” appears in the Complex/Subdivision Amenities Field. The name has been changed to Cluster/Patio Home Features to help clarify that the pick list item refers to “Cluster home communities” with “Patio Home features”. If you have a listing that is considered part of a “Cluster home” community or has “Patio Home Features”, you should select Cluster/Patio Home Features in the Complex/Subdivision Amenities field. PLEASE NOTE: You must manually select “Cluster/Patio Home Features” for your listing. Because of the suspected inaccuracy of the previous item in Exterior Amenities, no listings will automatically have “Cluster/Patio Home Features” selected based upon the old “Patio Home Features” item.
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Contingent Escape Status – Contingency Reason Field is Now Unlocked If your listing currently has Contingent-Escape status, and “Sale of Home” is not the most accurate description of the reason for contingency, please update your listing now to a more accurate Contingency Reason. When changing a listing to Contingent-Escape status, the MLS system automatically populates “Sale of Home” in the Contingency Reason field. This has not changed. However, prior to March 2013, the field Contingency Reason was locked and could not be modified from “Sale of Home”, even if there was some other description for the contingency reason. This field, Contingency Reason is now unlocked and able to be modified for all listings that are currently Contingent-Escape status. This behavior is similar to the function of Contingent-Fin/Ins.
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Coming Soon Signs – Appropriate or Risky? Please review the updated article from CBR CEO Stan Collins regarding the use of Coming Soon signs. https://columbusrealtors.com/NewsDetail.aspx?article=57049088
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Clinton County Issued New Parcel Numbers Clinton county auditor has changed the parcel number format for all properties in the entire county. CBR staff will update all Clinton county MLS listings that are currently Active, Contingent, and Under Contract as of March 11, 2013 to the new auditor assigned parcel numbers. The new and old parcel numbers already appear on the auditor website. The old numbers were renamed “map” numbers instead of “parcel number”. Please be aware of this change and use the newly created parcel numbers, not old “map” numbers, for all new Clinton county listings. This will also apply to reactivated listings that were not Active or Contingent as of March 11, 2013. If you reactivate an expired or withdrawn listing that does not have the new 2013 parcel number, please contact the MLS department and have CBR staff update the parcel number for you (614) 475-4000. Announcment from Clinton county Auditor website:
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In Memoriam – Laurence Felsenthal Services to be held Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 11am. See Obit in Columbus Dispatch:
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Fusion Users: Rectangle Polygon Shape – Bug Causes Map Search Failure Fusion users who frequently use polygons should be aware that the Rectangle polygon search may cause problems and even search failure. Only the Rectangle polygon causes the problems. This does not appear to affect Multi-facet and Radius polygon shapes at this time. PLEASE NOTE: It is highly recommended that Fusion users AVOID using Rectangle polygon map shapes until this bug is fixed. Users can use the “Polygon Tool” to make a 4-sided polygon that is identical to a Rectangle polygon. The Rectangle Tool itself should not be used for map searching. If a Radius or Multi-sided (Multi-facet) polygon is combined with a Rectangle polygon shape, all polygons in that search may fail. The problem is magnified when the polygons are moved or edited. At this time, the Rectangle polygon shape bug does not appear to affect Tempo, only Fusion.
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In Memoriam: JoAnn Hall http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dispatch/obituary.aspx?n=joann-hall&pid=163012409&fhid=8704 Viewing – Wednesday, Feb. 13, 4-7 p.m. Service – Thursday, Feb. 14, 10 a.m.
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Interior Flooring: New MLS Field on RES and RNT A new, optional field “Interior Flooring” has been added to the Add/Edit listing entry screen. This field appears on Add/Edit screens only for RES-Residential and RNT-Res Rental. The Interior Flooring field has 8 multi-select options including Carpet, Ceramic/Porcelain, Laminate-Artificial, Other-None, Renewable Green (bamboo and cork), Stone-Solid/Composite, Vinyl, Wood-Solid or Veneer. This new field and selectable items are available now. Items selected in this field by the listing agent are displayed on Residential and Res Rental full reports including RES-A2A Remarks, RES-Buyer Full, RNT-A2A Remarks, and RNT-Buyer Full. CHECK YOUR LISTINGS: All RES and RNT listings that previously had Wood Floors – ALL or Wood Floors – PART selected in the Interior Amenities field should already have “Wood-Solid or Veneer” selected in the new Interior Flooring field. It is recommended that you verify that the selections are correct for your listings in this newly created field and make any additional selections that may increase the searchability of your listed property.
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