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In Memoriam: Karen Ramsey See full obituary here:
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Holiday Schedule: Closed for Memorial Day The Columbus REALTORS association headquarters will be closed on Monday, May 28 in observance of Memorial Day. The association will open for normal business hours on Tuesday at 8:30am. Schedule:
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Before you close out your listing…fill out Green Features Y/N It is highly recommended that you fill out the Green Features Y/N field immediately. If you do not complete the Green Features selection now, you will be forced to do so when you attempt to mark the listing as closed. This will be very inconvenient because all of the sold information you entered on the Closing window will be lost when you are forced to go back to the main listing edit screen and and make your Green Features selection. If you are unfamiliar with the new Green Features Y/N field, you can read the full Green Features story below. Original Green Features Y/N story: A new field, “Green Features Y/N – Form Required” has been added to the Residential property type. Because the field is brand new, it will take some time for the new field to be fully populated. Agents will be required to make a Yes or No selection in the Green Features Y/N field for all new listings. Existing listings will require a selection in the field the first time the listing is edited. If Yes is selected, then the Green Features Checklist form is required to be completed and attached as a PDF to the listing on the MLS. This Green Features Checklist can be used to detail the green features present on a Residential property. Items on the form include Energy/Green Certifications and Energy and Water Efficient Features. The Green Features Y/N field allows agents to search specifically for listings that have “green/energy efficient features” of some type. After searching, they can then review the attached form to see all green features present on that property. It is highly recommended that you immediately update your listing for this new field particularly if your listed property has energy efficient green features. Simply edit your listing and look for the new, required Green Features Y/N field. Do not forget to fill out and upload the complete Green Features Checklist to your listing as an attachment. Download the Green Features Checklist from www.ColumbusRealtors.com > Tools > Worksheets, Forms and Contracts page by clicking here.
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Looking for Auction Properties? The Auction Y/N field was added to the default Residential Quick Search in March 2018 to make it even easier to filter Residential listing as “auction” or “not auction”. Auction properties in MLS are included in searches for Active status properties. The Auction Y/N field makes it very easy for an agent to search for only Auction properties or even to specifically exclude auction listings from the search results. When a listing is entered in the MLS, the agent is required to make a selection in the Auction Y/N field. If Yes is selected, the Auction Date field will also be required. Additional Auction details such as type of auction can be selected in the Additional Acceptance Conditions field. The auction selections entered by the listing agent will appear on the MLS reports. The Auction and Auction Date fields will appear only on the private version of the reports.
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Showing Start Date – Can I change it if I made a mistake? The Showing Start Date (SSD) field cannot be “pulled back” after a listing goes live on the MLS. You should set the SSD to the minimum future date that you believe will be necessary. That is, if you think a repair will take 3 weeks, it would be in your best interest to set the SSD only 1 or 2 weeks in the future. If you need an extra week, the date can be extended into the future, but not retracted from the original date set. You will just have to wait until the 3 weeks pass. Just remember to extend the SSD BEFORE the date passes. You will not be able to extend the date after it has already passed. I made a mistake when I entered the Showing Start Date. Can I fix it? PLEASE NOTE: Even if MLS staff is notified of an SSD error within 24 hours, the SSD can only be adjusted to the next business day since SSD cannot be entered as a past date, even by MLS staff.
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RPR: What do you know about this great tool? Would you like to learn more about RPR? There are live and pre-recorded webinars available on the RPR blog. You can register for an upcoming live webinar or watch previously recorded webinars on a variety of RPR topics. There are even RPR Commercial webinars available. In addition to webinars, there is also a wealth of training and promotional information available on the RPR blog. Get going, get learning. Check out the RPR blog here.
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Flexmls Downtime: Scheduled Maintenance – April 30 – 4:30am *** Originally posted 4/26/18 at 5:05AM *** FBS will be performing scheduled maintenance in the early morning hours of Monday, April 30th. The expected window is 4:30am-5:00am while the software is being restarted. This could result in sporadic connectivity issues for some users accessing the Flexmls system. Please note that any such issues should be very short lived.
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In Memoriam: Joseph Crites View In Memoriam: https://columbusrealtors.com/memoriam.aspx
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In Memoriam: Robert T. “Bob” Taggart View full obituary: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dispatch/obituary.aspx?n=robert-t-taggart&pid=188829175&fhid=8704
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In Memoriam: Tom Augustus Read full obituary: https://www.columbusrealtors.com/memoriam.aspx
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