A recent industry-wide standardization of data fields (RESO) required a new format for several fields in the MLS.  Buyer Broker Tenant Rep (BBTR),Sub Agency (SA) and Listing Agreement Type were modified.

The new format for BBTR and SA is simply 3 fields for each.  Previously, BB/TR Amount and SA Amount were entered as “$3000” or “3%”. There will now be a discreet field for each.  The Listing Agreement Type field was split into 2 fields.  See details of the new fields formats below.

New Format for Buyer Broker/Tenant Rep and Sub Agency Fields:

Buy Brkr/Tenant Rep (Yes/No) – Yes will require entry of fields below.
BB/TR Amount (numeric only field with 2 decimal places)BB/TR Type ($/%)
BB/TR Type ($/%)

Sub Agency (Yes/No) – Yes will require entry of fields below.
SA Amount (numeric only field with 2 decimal places)
SA Type ($/%)

New Format for Listing Agreement Type field (New field added):

Listing Agreement Type (ERS and EA) – Required entry.
Listing Service (Limited Services and MLS Entry Only) – Optional entry.

The data for existing listings should have converted automatically to the new fields.  It is recommended that you review these fields to make sure the automated processes correctly transferred the selections in these very important fields.

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11/17/2015

Changes made overnight to several fields in the MLS caused some difficulty with listing entry this morning. Most of those issues have now been resolved.  Add/Edit should now function as expected.  If you delayed entry of any listing, please enter that listing or listing change at this time.

A recent industry-wide change (RESO) required a new format for several fields in the MLS.  Buyer Broker Tenant Rep (BBTR) and Sub Agency (SA) Fields as well as Listing Agreement Type were modified.  Those new formats were implemented last night.  It appears that the old fields still active this morning.  The Listing Service field was required when it should not have been.  There was also an erroneous requirement to enter data in both fields, regardless if “yes” was selected.

For a description of the field changes that prompted these issues, please read the full article on the MLS Message Board.

The new format is simply 3 fields for each: BBTR and SA.  Previously, BB/TR Amount and SA Amount were entered as “$3000” or “3%”. There will now be a discreet field for each.  The Listing Agreement Type field was split into 2 fields.  See details of the new fields formats below.

New Format for Buyer Broker/Tenant Rep and Sub Agency Fields:

Buy Brkr/Tenant Rep (Yes/No)
BB/TR Amount (numeric only field with 2 decimal places)BB/TR Type ($/%)

Sub Agency (Yes/No)
SA Amount (numeric only field with 2 decimal places)
SA Type ($/%)

New Format for Listing Agreement Type field:

Listing Agreement Type (ERS and EA)
Listing Service (Limited Services and MLS Entry Only)

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11/11/2015

Eligible members were sent a unique Member ID and PIN number on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015. This Member ID and PIN number are required to complete the online voting process and have nothing to do with your other association dues, MLS or forms IDs or passwords. If you did not receive this email, please contact vote@CRelections.com 

Votes may be cast from 12:01 p.m. Nov. 10 to 11:59 a.m. Nov. 17, 2015 at www.crelections.com.

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Election Timeline
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Read full story here:

http://columbusrealtors.com/NewsDetail.aspx?article=95977473

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If you are using Internet Explorer 11 to access Flexmls, it is possible you may be receiving an error message when trying to access various sections of the system. This is likely caused by your browser having Compatibility Mode turned ON for the Flexmls system. Flexmls has not ever needed Compatibility View turned on, but in some cases, your may have accidentially set your browser to work in this mode for the website. The error you receive will be:

Clearing your cache will not resolve the issue. The resolve is to remove flexmls.com from your list of Compatibility View enabled sites.

To do so, you can do the following:

1. Look for the gear icon that should be displayed on the upper right corner of Internet Explorer. Click on this icon.
2. From the menu, select compatibility view settings.
3. On the list presented under “Websites you’ve added to Compatibility View”, locate any address that contains the string of flexmls.com. Possible entries may be *.flexmls.com or cr.flexmls.com
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4. Highlight the entry and click on the remove button on the right. Repeat if there are more than one instance of flexmls listed. (You do NOT need to remove other sites from this list)
5. Once all flexmls entries are removed, hit the close button.
6. Close out of all instances of Internet Explorer. Once they are all closed, you can re-open a fresh copy of the program and try again.

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11/05/2015

Beginning Monday, November 2, email frequency for Subscription emails will change slightly.  No change or action is required by the agent or client.  All current auto-email subscriptions will continue to be delivered.  The change will only affect “Weekly” subscriptions.  ASAP and Monthly subscriptions will not be affected by this change.

The “Weekly” delivery schedule will now send any matched listings once per day instead of three.  The listings will typically be sent between 4-6am each day. The days of the week can still be selected when using the “Weekly” setting.

This change restores the original delivery schedule that existed with the previous MLS vendor prior to February 2014. FBS did not have an “ASAP” option in early 2014.  Our daily (now called “Weekly” delivery was changed from one to three times per day as a temporary fix.  When ASAP delivery (every few minutes), the three times per day option was to be removed.  That is exactly what will happen on November 2, 2015.

Agents who wish to have the MLS immediately send new or changed listing should use the ASAP option.  The previous “Weekly” three times per day option is delayed 8 hours between batches.  Agents who wish to give a “once-a-day” batch delivery of all changes for the last 24 hours will now have that option with “Weekly” delivery.

Summary:

1. Auto Email will still have the same 3 options: Weekly (now once per day), ASAP (every few minutes), or Monthly.
2. Weekly delivery will now be once per day instead of three times per day.
3. There will be stragglers until November 4^th. (auto-email that were already in the process). These will continue to send three times per day until the queue is cleared.   All “weekly” subscriptions should truly be once per day by Nov. 4.

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10/30/2015

Read the article here:

Online Rental Scams are a Major Problem

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10/15/2015

Update: TRID changes

From what we’re hearing:

• Don’t write purchase contracts to close in 30 days – unless your buyers have discussed this in advance with their lender.
• Your ‘state license number’ is one you received from the Ohio Division of Real Estate – not your Office ID number.

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10/12/2015

We have been aware that the Flexmls system has been down since at least 5:56 am this morning. We have heard response from our vendor, FBS, that they are aware and looking into the situation. At this time, there is no ETA of recovery. When we hear more or service is restored, we will update this message.

Update 1: Response from FBS – “Outage Identified – Routine maintenance this morning has lead to a situation where the flexmls system is unavailable to all users. We’re aware of this issue and the components involved and are working to restore service.  ”

Final Update: Response from FBS – All systems appear to be operational at this time. We continue to monitor the situation. Timestamped 8:40 am.

FBS (software vendor) Explanation below:

What happened?

In the early morning hours of Friday, October 9th, the Flexmls system became unavailable. The outage was caused by planned maintenance and lasted about 2.5 hours from approximately 5:00AM-7:30AM (Central). The database involved spans both our primary and backup data centers, so both were impacted by the outage.

What were we doing?

The work we were doing was adding an index to one of our database systems. Creation of an index can (and was today) be a long and intensive operation. After the index was created, services did not recover on their own and intervention was required. The benefit of indexes is that they help the system perform faster after they are in place.

Will this happen again?

We will be re-evaluating index creation procedures moving forward. We will also be working on an initiative to upgrade systems involved so that, when we do need to create an index, it won’t be such a long window of system unavailability. We know our users depend on our system to be available when they need it and we failed to deliver on that this morning.

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10/09/2015

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http://www.columbusrealtors.com/Alerts/default.aspx

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10/06/2015