Matt Carter (As I’ve stated in the past, is doing some excellent reporting in the MLS world) posted another article on troubles plaguing calREDD, the California Association of REALTORS statewide MLS effort.
The article is called ” Another rocky launch for ‘California MLS‘ ” and focuses on some of the frustrations of Lake Country Association of REALTORS, which represents about 400 members and is calREDD’s latest victim customer. Some of this frustration has also been posted on Vendor Alley.
Here’s the money quote from the article:
“As of right now, we cannot see any other listings (of other Realtor associations) which are running calREDD,” said Lake County member Jean King, a Realtor with David R. Hughes & Associates. “We should have been told that it would not be available” at launch, she added.
Kucirek said that while calREDD made it clear to participating Realtor associations that they would not have immediate access to listings systemwide, not all of their members may have gotten that message.
King said that while she believes Realtors in general support a statewide MLS, she is frustrated with calREDD.
“They have not addressed our concerns in a timely fashion and (the calREDD system) certainly does not meet my needs,” King said. “I personally would like to see us go back to Paragon at least for the time being. What we have been given is a bare-bones program that cannot even accurately report days on market.”
So let me get this straight, the big value proposition is that calREDD will be a state-wide MLS system. But the system is designed so that each installation of a calREDD MLS system can’t search upon each others listing inventory????
Huh?
And just for the record, the reason why people think they should be able to see listings from other calREDD MLS systems is because you call yourself A STATE-WIDE MLS SYSTEM!!
You just can’t make this shit up.
Somebody should pull the plug on this now before it costs C.A.R. members any more money.