Saxton Real Estate reported today that they’ve had two instances where someone has called the office claiming to be a out of state agent wanting to see listed property. In these cases, the callers used license numbers and phone numbers for legitimate out of state agents. They were seeking the codes to access HUD homes on combination lockboxes. Please be careful when dealing with any callers seeking access to homes. An extra phone call for verification may be inconvenient, but will help you protect yourself and the property.

https://new.columbusrealtors.com/alerts/default.aspx

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04/05/2017

A system update for Realist is scheduled to be installed early morning on Tuesday April 4th.  Realist may be unavailable for several hours between 1:00 AM and 5:00 AM during the installation process.

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04/03/2017

CoreLogic will be performing system maintenance the early morning of Sunday, April 2, 2017 beginning at 1:00 AM through 4:00 AM the Sunday morning. Realist may be intermittently unavailable during this maintenance period.

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03/30/2017

Louise Potter,  HER, Realtors®, reported that over 40 HER associates, mostly female, have received a Contact Request on their websites from someone by the name of Ian Barr, barr.i@yahoo.com, who is asking to “talk” with a REALTOR®. The same message has been left in each instance, “I saw your profile on the HER Realtor site. I’d like to schedule time for us to talk. Please reply to this email if you are interested.” The phone number googles to a person by a different name in TN. So, not sure if this is a vendor or just a creep, but HER’s Customer Care department has alerted their associates and wanted to give other REALTORS® the heads up about this suspicious individual.

For this notice and more, click http://www.columbusrealtors.com/alerts/default.aspx

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03/28/2017

Larry Stewart, RE/MAX Connections, reported that he had received a call from a lady in Westerville who had received a post office notification that her change of address request to 646 Elizabeth Street (a vacant property listed by Larry) had went through. She did not make this request, found out that Larry had the property listed and called him. Larry went to the property to check the mailbox and found two credit cards for two different ladies (the lady who initially called him and a lady who lived in Clintonville) with $25,000 lines of credit and $5,000 – $6,000 available cash. Both pieces of mail had the same markings on the envelopes and both ladies have filed reports with the post office and police. It takes 10 to 14 days to reverse a change of address, so Larry took the mailbox off the house to immediately stop any additional fraudulent mail being left at this property. He asked that we make agents aware of this criminal activity and if it happens at one of their vacant properties, they should immediately make the mailbox inoperable.

For this notice and more, click http://www.columbusrealtors.com/alerts/default.aspx

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03/27/2017

FBS reports that the issue causing slowness and errors on Flexmls has been resolved.  If you are experiencing issues, you may need to clear your cache.

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FBS has reported that Flex is experiencing some slowness and errors.  This is being researched by FBS.  We will update this headline when this issue is resolved.

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03/24/2017

3/38/17 Note – Website appears to be up. We did not receive a follow-up message from the Recorder’s office.

We’ve just received a notice from the Franklin County Recorder that their online website is unavailable and they wish to pass along to the membership/public this information:

“Our main website is down at the moment due to internal Data Center issues, however our search page is still available for your membership to do document searches (via this link)? https://countyfusion5.propertyinfo.com/countyweb/login.do?countyname=Franklin   We are not certain when the main webpage will be fully functioning but until then this link should give them the access they need.”

The Franklin County Recorder is available by phone at 614-525-3930.

Note from MLS Staff: This outage does not affect Flexmls, Realist, RPR or Data Co-Op in any way.

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03/23/2017

William Bradley Salt – President in 1971

Aug. 20, 1922 – March 17, 2017

William Bradley Salt, 94, of Sarasota, Florida, formerly Bexley, Ohio, died at home March 17, 2017. He was a World War II Navy veteran, who served in the Pacific theater. Brad graduated from The Ohio State University. He was a co-founder of Salt Brothers Hardware in Columbus, Ohio, and later the owner of Brad Salt Realtors in Columbus. Brad served as President of Bexley City Council and President of the Columbus Board of Realtors. After coming to Sarasota he was a co-founder and broker of Stevens and Salt Inc. He leaves behind Shirley, his high school sweetheart and wife of 72 years, their three children, Bill (Susan) Salt, Cathy (John) Forman, Terri (Dennis) Costa, nine grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his brothers: Charles, David and Thomas Salt. Funeral services will be held Thursday, March 23, 2:00, at Sarasota National Cemetery, arranged by Toale Brothers Colonial Chapel. Memorial donations may be made to Tidewell Hospice.

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MLS and Technical Support will experience limited availability and delayed responses to email and support calls beginning Friday March 17 through Monday March 20. Please note, the Flexmls software, Realist and related software will not be affected by this move.

During Friday, March 17 and Monday, March 20, the best contact methods would be by email. Contact Technical Support at techsupport@columbusrealtors.com and then for any MLS listing issues or corrections, mlscorrections@columbusrealtors.com

Due to the renovation schedule, MLS will be moving to the first floor of the association headquarters on these days.  This will cause disruptions in the computer and telephone access to the MLS department including Technical Support.

During the move, there will be delays in reaching MLS and Technical Support staff by phone or email.  Please be aware that immediate phone or email response may not be possible during this time.  Calls and email will be returned as soon as possible after the staff is relocated to the new space.

We apologize for the disruption and look forward to serving you from the new MLS offices on the first floor.

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03/15/2017

12:22PM: From Realist:

Realist service has been restored.  The CoreLogic technical teams continue to monitor and will investigate root cause of the event. We thank you for your patience, and we sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you and your members.

11:21AM: Unfortunately, no change in status. Issue looks to be in place for ALL MLS’s that utilize Realist. This message just received this directly from Realist:

Realist is currently unavailable.  The technical teams are working to restore Realist service as soon as possible.  We will provide updates as they are available. We regret the inconvenience this causes you and your members.

Thank you,

Realist Support Team

11:10AM: At this time, we are seeing that the Realist system is unavailable. Attempts to load the Realist system will stall and then present a blank, white screen.For those attempting to Load Tax Record data on new listing entry, you will get errors. To proceed with listing entry, please do not try to utilize the Load Tax Record option.

Issue has been confirmed on multiple computers/browsers and internet connections. There is no action to take on your system that will allow the site to come up as it looks to be on Realist’s end.

We have reached out to Realist but have yet to receive an ETA for resolve. We will update this post with details as they are available.

10:45AM: We at Columbus REALTORS® began to see issues with Realist, we have not had any member reports of the issue as of yet.

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03/14/2017