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MLS Policy Change – Data Maintenance Fee Assessment Process The MLS Committee and the Board of Directors recently made a revision to MLS policies regarding how data maintenance fees are assessed. This change affecting all policies was primarily made to ensure members address needed listing corrections promptly: Current Wording: REALTOR® will receive an immediate warning. There shall be only one warning per licensee during each six-month period (Jan-Jun and Jul-Dec). Additional offenses of the same identical data field occurring within the same six-month period (Jan-Jun and Jul-Dec) will be assessed an immediate data maintenance fee. (Jul’12) Amended Wording: REALTOR® will receive an immediate warning. First Data Maintenance Fee (DMF) assessment will be applied in the following manner if necessary: Warning, DMF, DMF, Warning, $500. The assessment is per licensee during each six-month period (Jan-Jun and Jul – Dec). Second and subsequent Data Maintenance Fee (DMF) assessments for the same identical data field occurring within the same six-month period (Jan-Jun and Jul-Dec) will be assessed an immediate data maintenance fee and applied in the following manner if necessary: DMF, DMF, Warning, $500. (Oct ’13) The typical timeframe between Warnings and each DMFs is 24 hours for members to make MLS requested data error corrections. If a member is believed to have intentionally violated policies on a consistent basis by refusing to make required correction(s) in the allowable 24 hour timeframes and then being assessed a $500 DMF, they would be subject to a phone call from the Chair of the MLS Committee or an ethics’ complaint filed by the Chair of the MLS Committee. A revised policy manual reflective of these changes will be on the CR web site soon. Please be certain your broker, office manager and all REALTORS® are aware of these important changes to the MLS policies that are effective November 1, 2013 … thank you.
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UPDATE: Error Generating Page – Issues with Tempo/Fusion UPDATE: Our vendor has stated that they believe the system issues have been resolved. If you are still seeing issues, please Sign Out of either Tempo/Fusion and close down your browser window. Once closed out, you may bring up a new browser window and try logging back into the system. ———————————————————— The detail view in MLS is currently not functioning correctly. The full detail view (A2A Remarks) reports in Tempo or Fusion are both effected. Either a blank page or a page with “Error Generating Page. try again later” will be displayed. This error will also prevent printing of the reports as well as print preview. The errors began appearing shortly before 10:30am this morning. The vendor has been notified and is currently working to resolve the problem.
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Windows 8.1 and IE 11 – Do Not Install Recommendation: DO NOT INSTALL Windows 8.1 at this time. Microsoft is expected to release Windows 8.1 including a new version of Internet Explorer 11 on October 17th, 2013. Until CoreLogic has certified that IE11 is fully compatible with its MLS systems, we recommend that Fusion and TEMPO users do not install Windows 8.1. (Windows 8 does not support earlier, certified versions of Internet Explorer, unfortunately.) Known issues with IE11 (vendor is working to resolve):
Note: Windows 8.1 is NOT an “automatic update” for current Windows 8 users that would be applied without the user’s action. For Windows versions prior to 8.0, users must purchase Windows 8.1 and upgrade their computer or purchase a new computer with Windows 8.1 already installed. If they do so, the only version of Internet Explorer they will be able to use is IE11 and they will encounter the issue above until they are resolved.
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Realist Downtime: Sunday Morning, Oct. 13 – 2am Realist will have a brief outage for maintenance on Sunday morning, October 13 at approximately 2am EST. The outage should last no more than 1 hour.
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Franklin Co. Auditor/Recorder – Outages – Oct. 12,13,14,19 Please be aware the Franklin County Recorder and Auditor’s offices will be closed for maintenance October 12, 13, 14, and 19. The building closure will also cause disruption to online services during this period. The affect on internet searches will range from sporadic unavailability to complete inaccessibility according to the schedule below: Schedule of Franklin Co. Auditor/Recorder Internet Downtime:
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Do You Want to Be on the MLS Committee? Ever think about serving on the MLS Committee? The MLS Committee is an elected committee with a limited number of seats determined by a weighted formula based on the MLS’s agents, listings, solds and offices. The number of seats available can change each year based on this formula or elected members whose term ends. Visit this page for more detailed information on this process. Follow these steps to throw your hat in the ring:
Your bio and resume will be presented to the MLS Nominating Committee at the Annual Business Meeting. The five selected Realtors® that serve on the Nominating Committee then meet in November to select candidates. A ballot is created for the December election where only brokers vote. Members who wish to volunteer their time to serve are very much in demand by the Nominating Committee and always appreciated. If you still have questions, please review the election information on the main Columbus Realtors® site, E-mail Mike Gautier in MLS, or call (614) 475-4000.
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RESOLVED-Detail Reports: Error Generating Page in Tempo/Fusion The issue with detail report display has been resolved as of 815pm Saturday night. If you are still seeing blank reports or “Error Generating page”, you may need to empty your cache or simply refresh the page, log out and then back into the MLS. ————— The detail view In MLS is currently not functioning correctly.The full detail view (A2A Remarks) reports in Tempo or Fusion are both effected. Either a blank page or a page with “Error Generating Page. try again later” will be displayed. This error will also prevent printing of the reports as well as print preview.The errors began appearing shortly before 5pm Saturday afternoon. The vendor has been notified and is currently working to resolve the problem.
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MLS Downtime: Wednesday, October 2nd – 1 a.m. The MLS servers will have routine scheduled reboot on the morning of October 2nd. The system will be unavailable to Fusion and Tempo users. All connections for 3rd party vendors will also be offline. The outage will last for approximately 30 minutes starting at 1 a.m EDT. Schedule of Downtime October 2, 2013:
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MLS TIP: No Showings? Recently the MLS has received several reports of showings not being allowed on active listings. Perhaps your client is having work done on their property which will prevent them from accepting showings for a week or having friends or relatives visit for a few days. Regardless of the reason or time, the status of the listing then needs to be changed to the Temp off Market status until such time as showings can resume. MLS policy states: 1.04.02 – Listing Submitted to MLS but Not Available for Showing $ 50 Data Maintenance Fee All property submitted to MLS and appearing in active searches must be immediately available for sale, lease or exchange and/or showing. Property listed and required in MLS but not available for showings must be filed with MLS on the proper form (Office Exclusive Waiver Form) found on CBR’s web site at http://www.columbusrealtors.com. REALTOR® will receive an immediate warning. There shall be only one warning per licensee during each six-month period (Jan. – Jun. and Jul. – Dec.) Additional offenses of the identical data field occurring within the same six-month period (Jan. – Jun. and Jul. – Dec.) will be assessed an immediate data maintenance fee. Changing the status is an easy click of the mouse and other REALTORS® will appreciate the notice. Thanks for your cooperation.
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Tempo/Fusion: Errors, Slowness, and Inaccessbility – Friday, 5pm Tempo and Fusion are both experiencing slowness and periods of complete inaccessibility as of 5pm on Friday, September 13. The vendor has been notified of the problem, but no ETA has been established for restoration of full functionality. Please check back frequently as full functionality may be restored at any time. UPDATE: Full service appeared to be restored at about 7:30pm Friday, September 13th.
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