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ColumbusRealtors.com Website Down – Not MLS Please be aware that the Columbus REALTORS website is currently experiencing issues and “server application” errors. This appears to be affecting only the association website. The MLS sites for Fusion, Tempo, and Realist do not appear to be directly affected. If you normally access MLS from the link on Columbusrealtors.com, please use the addresses below until the association website has been resolved. Tempo: http://cbrmls.columbusrealtors.com Fusion: http://cbrmls.fusionmls.com
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Kurio: New Map Search with Lasso Shapes Kurio has just added the ability to search by map using “lasso” searches. Lasso search is similar to the polygon map shapes available in Tempo/Fusion. Lasso searches are also used on mobile apps and websites like Realtor.com. As always, there is no app to install. Kurio is a website. To use the new lasso search, just login to your Kurio account using you MLS username and password at the address below.
cbrmls.columbusrealtors.mobi
You will see a “Map Search NEW” item at the top of the list. Kurio may ask to “use your location”. This is necessary for map search. Allow location services. You will see a red “lasso” button at the top. Use your mouse or fingertip on mobile to literally draw the shape on the screen. PLEASE NOTE: There may be performance issues on older phones. The oldest supported phone is iPhone 4S. Older iPhones and Android devices may experience slowness when using lasso map shape search features.
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MLS Downtime: Monday, July 15 – 5:00am-8:30am Please be aware that the MLS will be offline and unavailable Monday morning, July 15th from 5:00-8:30am. This is planned downtime to install the latest version of the Fusion/Tempo software. SCHEDULE:
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Land/Farm: Items Moved from Misc to Lot Char For the Land/Farm Category Only: There were duplicated entries found in the LND category in the Miscellaneous field and the Lot Characteristics field. Miscellaneous field: (Following 4 selections were REMOVED from Miscellaneous field) Lake/Pond (removed and mapped to Lot Char POND) Lot Characteristics field: (All listings with the above items selected in Misc should automatically have the following selected now) Pond IMPORTANT NOTE: Please be aware that saved searches may need the new selections manually adjusted. Staff has tested the searches appear to have correctly transferred the selections from Misc to the Lot Char selections. Please verify the correct selections for your client in LND category if you were previously using the Miscellaneous field. Any listings that had these selections in Misc should also be verified that they are now selected in Lot Char field.
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Realist Slowness and Sporadically Unreachable Realist is currently experiencing problems that cause severe slowness and at times can be completely unreachable. This primarily affects Realist 2, not old Realist. This Realist issue does NOT seem to affect auto-population of tax data.
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Realist: “Application Error”, Export Failure, Auto-pop duplication in Franklin Co. A recent Realist assessor (monthly) update for Franklin county created a large number of duplicated property records. This seems to affect only Franklin county. Symptoms include: 1) The duplicated listings will be visible on the Realist grid (list of matches properties). This has also affected the display of the Realist detail report (green dollar sign icon) within the MLS. 2) When attempting to display a Realist property detail report that has been duplicated, the user will get an error message on a plain white page that says “An application error has occurred.” 3)Attempting to export Franklin Co. listing to a spreadsheet in Realist may result in a very low number of actual property records appearing in the CSV spreadsheet that is generated. For example, if 300 properties are selected, only 5 may appear in the created spreadsheet after the export. This is caused by the damaged/duplicated records causing the export to fail midway through the process. 4) Realist auto-population of tax data may have problems for the listings that have been duplicated. When autopopping the tax data for a new listing, you may notice for some Franklin co. listings that 2 records appear for the address. You can sometimes determined the damaged/duplicated entry by the blank or clearly inaccurate information in the auto-pop entry for the damaged entry ($22 for taxes vs. $2481 in the undamaged record). Select the clean version that is correctly displaying the data from Realist for that property when auto-popping from Realist in Franklin Co. We will update this story when a resolution or ETA for correction is announced by the vendor.
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AOL Email: Spam/Junk Mail Issues MarketLinx received a report that starting on May 16th AOL was blocking some of our IP addresses, due to a spike in unfavorable e-mail statistics. Based on the latest information blocked email message are now being processed. From time to time, Internet service providers such as AOL put MarketLinx on their bulk senders black list, temporarily preventing system-generated e-mail from reaching AOL recipients. To help keep MarketLinx systems off these black lists, it is very important that users do not “Mark as Spam” or “Mark as Junk” any e-mail messages that they no longer want to receive, such as prospect email they’ve copied to themselves or any notifications regarding undeliverable mail. To prevent system-generated messages from being received in an Inbox, the messages should be deleted and never marked as spam or junk. You can read the story at the bottom of the welcome screen regarding the ongoing effort to keep Tempo/Fusion email from being blocked
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School District Changes: New Albany, Northridge, Hamilton…Others Please be aware that the ongoing school district renaming/relabeling has affected several school districts as of May 8, 2013. When searching, the old, now defunct school district names/selections will no longer function. The listings have been moved into the appropriately named new field. Each of the items below represented multiple schools and were mapped to the appropriate new school selection based upon county. The new fields with school district number and county included in the description should be used going forward. For example, the old, ambiguous “PLAIN LOCAL” school district selection was split into 2 new school selections “NEW ALBANY PLAIN LSD 2508 FRA CO” and “PLAIN LSD 7615 STA CO”. All listings in Franklin and Licking county that had “PLAIN LOCAL” prior to Wednesday, May 8 were automatically changed to NEW ALBANY PLAIN LSD 2508. Only listing in Stark county were moved into the PLAIN LSD 7615 school selection. Please be aware of this change and adjust your searches accordingly. The full list of affected “defunct” school selections follows: BUCKEYE PLEASANT and PLEASANT LOCAL were both automatically merged to PLEASANT LSD 5103
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Fracking: How Has It Affected Your Real Estate Business? The MLS committee is reviewing the disclosure of fracking and mineral rights disclosure on the MLS worksheets. We need your help and input. Tell us how fracking (hydraulic fracturing) has positively or negatively affected your business, your clients, and your transactions in real estate in central Ohio. Any information you can provide as to the benefits or liabilities of fracking disclosure will be helpful to the committee. Please email your experiences, recommendations, or warnings regarding fracking disclosure on MLS to Matt Warren – mwarren@columbusrealtors.com
Thanks for your input!
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MLS Policy: Build-to-Suit Photos The MLS Committee recently confirmed that the MLS photos designed exclusively for use with your Build-to-Suit properties cannot be used for any listings other than new construction withoutbuilding permits. Warnings and/or data maintenance fees will continue to be issued for those found in violation. New construction with a building permit is required to display the primary photo with the words “Not Actual Property” appearing in 36 point type or larger if the actual photo either is not (1) the current stage of construction or (2) the actual interior. Again … please do not use the Build-to-Suit primary photos that MLS provides for any listing other than new construction without building permits. Those photos serve as quick identification of vacant ground listings with a proposed house that is currently not under construction. Thank you for your cooperation.
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