We have received reports that members could be seeing suspicious emails that appear to originate from Centralized Showing. As always, please take caution with any email that you do not recognize or the email is asking for information that you do not feel safe in providing.

If you have specific questions regarding these Centralized Showing Service emails, please contact Centralized Showing Service at (913) 754-3080, or by email kchelpdesk@showings.com

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09/03/2015

The Office Exclusive Waiver Form must now include a copy of the Listing Agreement.  In addition, signatures of the listing agent, broker, and seller are required.  The Office Exclusive Form will not be processed until all required signatures AND the listing agreement are received by the MLS.

This policy change is effective immediately.  The Office Exclusive Waiver Form has been updated to reflect this change (Dated 8/15). The Office Exclusive Waiver Form and the Listing Agreement will be kept on file by the MLS.

If you have any questions about this policy please contact Bryan Dean at bdean@columbusrealtors.com.

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08/27/2015

Providing your MLS password to anyone is a violation of MLS policy.

MLS Policy specifically forbids providing your password to any other user.  There is NOT an exception for vendors.  Do not provide your password to a vendor who will then log in as you to run searches or reports in the MLS.  This is a $500 fine.  Vendors are not permitted to login as you.

In addition to vendors, no one else is permitted to login as you either.  Other agents, members of your team, assistants, and all other users must have their own login. They must login as themself, then “superuse” (do business) as you.  Password sharing is not permitted.

MLS POLICY:

1.08.01 – Providing Login Name/Password to Non-Member $ 500 Violation Fee

Your login name and password is highly confidential and is not to be shared with other agents, unauthorized technology vendors or customers or clients. Your login name and password shall not be shared, disclosed or knowingly allowed to come into the possession of any other person except your broker, manager and/or office administrator in your real estate company. REALTOR® will be assessed an immediate violation fee.

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CoreLogic will be performing system maintenance this weekend, Sunday August 9, 2015, beginning at 2:00am.  It is estimated the maintenance will take approximately 7 hours to complete. During this time Realist users may experience network connectivity interruptions.

Schedule for Sunday:
2am:  sporadic connection interruptions and inaccessibility
9am:  full functionality restored

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08/07/2015

CoreLogic will be performing system maintenance on the early morning of Sunday, July 19th beginning at 1:00 AM through 5:00 AM.   Realist and the corresponding Tax Information auto-pop information within Flexmls will be unavailable during this maintenance period.

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07/17/2015

Realist will be updating the latest version in the early morning hours of Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Realist may be intermittently unavailable between 1:00 AM and 5:00 AM during the installation process.

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07/13/2015

The field “SqFt Tax Record” must now be filled in for all MLS listings within 15 days of entry into the MLS.  This field can no longer be left blank.  In the coming weeks, agents who have nothing entered in this field will receive an email notifying them of the new policy.

The MLS committee and Board of Directors made this new requirement because there are quite a few listings in the MLS with no entry in the SqFt Tax Record field.  This causes inaccuracy in CMA’s and statistical reports.  This field was deemed very important to agents for search, as well as statistical purposes.

Below is the full text of the message to be sent to agents:

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MLS Policy requires the Sq Ft Tax Record field to be accurate for all listings. The listing agent must provide proof of taxable square footage from a professional source to the MLS within 15 days from the entry date.  You must provide this proof by email in PDF format or by FAX. You cannot update the listing’s Sq Ft Tax Record yourself.  The field is locked after initial entry.

You will continue to receive this notification for 15 days or until the field is updated by MLS staff.  After 15 days, the listing agent will receive a Data Maintenance Fee for late entry of Sq Ft Tax Record. This policy applies to all Residential and Res Rental listings.

PROOF OF SQ. FT. SOURCE DOCUMENTS:

MLS staff must update the Sq. Ft. Tax Record field for you based upon the source document you provide.  Acceptable source documents include county auditor’s record, appraisals, builder statements and floor plans provided by a builder, architect or licensed appraiser.  Please submit these documents to MLS so your listing can be updated immediately.  You may submit documentation as a PDF by email or FAX.

SUBMIT TO:

EMAIL:  mlscorrections@columbusrealtors.com
FAX: (614) 416-0258
QUESTIONS?  (614) 475-4000 (ask for MLS Corrections)

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07/08/2015

There have been 2 recent changes to the MLS:
1) Gated Community is now an optional selection in the Complex/Subdiv Amenities field for Residential and Res Rental
2) Late last week there was a change to make Seller Concession a required field. As of 6/30/15, this change has been temporarily disabled.

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06/26/2015

The MLS Committee completed a review of the Residential MLS reports in April in response to complaints that the Residential full report was too crowded and often spilled onto a second page when printing.

The following modifications/additions have been made to the Residential MLS Reports:
1) CR Full (1-Page) Report – Several modifications made to make the report fit on one page. These include:
– The name is the same in the print dialog box “CR Full Report”, but reads “CR Full 1-Page Report” at the top of the report itself.
– Move MLS number to the top of the report
– Address moved to the top of the report
– Contingency Reason field moved to top directly below Status field (when property is in Contingent Status)
– CDOM and DOM moved to the top
– Style moved to the top
– Approximate Complete Date field moved to right side below New Construction
– Complex/Subdiv Amenities field moved up to left of HOA/COA fields
– Listing Agreement Type, Addl Parcel Numbers, VT link, Windows, Interior Flooring all moved to CR Full 2-Page Report
– Sold Info will appear at bottom only for Sold properties. Otherwise it will be hidden.
– New fields added in the future will always be added to CR Full 2-Page Report.
2) Side by Side with Remarks – New 3-up style columnar report (Released earlier this month)
3) CR Full 2-Page Report – New report with designed to print to two pages.
– larger font size
– additional space between sections
– full A2A Remarks (CR Full 1-Page is limited to only 25% of the A2A remarks for space limitation)
– All additional fields will appear on the CR Full 2-Page report

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Realist service has been restored.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this caused.

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06/16/2015