Where Real Estate Gets Its Dirt

Coming soon to MRIS, “coming soon” listings.

Coming Soon Listing Status is Coming Soon

“3. When you select the Coming Soon status for your listing, you’ll need to enter an Expected On-Market Date. This date can be no later than twenty-one days from when the listing is submitted to the MLS under the Coming Soon status. If the house is ready earlier than anticipated, you can change the status for your listing in Keystone.”

Coming soon listings are so yesterday, I’m waiting for “thinking about it” listings. ; )

Real Estate On Your Wrist

Real Estate on your wrist: Homesnap for Android wear

“How does Homesnap for Android Wear work? We leverage the location data from your Android phone using battery-sensitive techniques to keep you in sync with nearby real estate listings. Whenever you see a Homesnap card in your context stream, you can swipe through nearby listings to review photos and prices.”

Good luck with that.

Redfin Buys Walk Score.

Looks like Kelman couldn’t let 2014 go by without doing some acquiring of his own.

Redfin Buys Walk Score

“The acquisition is Redfin’s first and the reason for it is simple: We want to give folks a complete portrait of what it would be like to live somewhere new, within the house and in the surrounding neighborhood.”

I’ve been a bug fan of Walk Score for a long time. It was one of the first APIs we integrated in to Cloud CMA. Over the years when giving demos I would ask the audience if they have heard about Walk Score, at first I would explain it. But now they have done such a great job or working with MLS that I usually just get a lot of heads nodding.

Huge congrats to Matt Lerner and the rest of the Walk Score team.

SentriLock wins in Las Vegas

“4 years, 3 Leadership teams, 2 AEs and 1 beautiful signed contract!”

Nice win for Kim and Sentrilock. Congrats!

Full Press Release Below:

Greater Las Vegas Association of REALTORS® Partners With SentriLock, LLC
Greater Las Vegas Association of REALTORS® (GLVAR) has partnered with SentriLock, LLC, the official lockbox solution of the National Association of REALTORS®, to provide its members with SentriLock’s REALTOR® Lockbox System.

GLVAR is the local representative of the National Association of REALTORS® and the largest professional organization in Southern Nevada. GLVAR is one of the top 10 largest REALTOR® Associations in the United States. GLVAR serves more than 11,500 real estate professionals in the Greater Las Vegas area, providing local members with the highest level of education, training and political representation.
Heidi Kasama, 2014 GLVAR President, said, “After researching this issue, we chose SentriLock for this important service because we determined they were the most qualified and offered the best, most cost-efficient solution for our more than 11,500 GLVAR members.”

SentriLock CEO and founder Scott Fisher has led the company through 11 years of consistent growth to serve more than 280 REALTOR® Associations and MLS customers throughout North America.
“We’re extremely excited about partnering with a proven leader like Greater Las Vegas Association of REALTORS®, which is an outstanding organization with a great staff,” Fisher said. “I believe GLVAR recognizes that our 100% REALTOR®-focused company will be an excellent fit for their members. As with all of our customers, SentriLock is committed to providing GLVAR members with the best product and service available.”

Contact Information Greg Sheldon SentriLock, LLC. http://www.sentrilock.com (513) 618-5821

Pro Tip: Scotch Tear-by-hand tape

So here’s the situation, you are packing up the booth and putting everything back in their boxes. If your marketing team was smart enough they included packing tape so you could tape all the boxes up.

But then you need scissors to cut the tape. Not anymore! Enter Scotch Tear-by-hand tape! Totally works too.

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You’re welcome.

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Tanqueray No. 10 Imperial Shaker

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Wondering where this will fit in the office.

#want

Phil Tedesco takes top spot at Rhode Island Association of REALTORS

CEO Tedesco to lead Rhode Island state association

““It is with deep regret and mixed emotions that we accept Phil’s resignation. Since becoming our CEO, he has been instrumental in putting our association in solid administrative, financial and operational position. We wish him well in his new position,” said 2014 TAR President Steven Redmond.
The Rhode Island Association of REALTORS® is one of the largest professional organizations in the state. It has some 4,000 members in 600 offices who collectively closed 14,000 homes worth about $4.3 billion in sales last year. TAR has about 4,700 members who sold about 13,950 homes in 2013 for a total sales volume of $2.7 billion.

Sounds like a great gig for Phil. And still they say climate change isn’t real.

Down Payment Resource (DPR) launches in two new markets

DPR Blog:

“We’re excited to bring Down Payment Resource™ (DPR) to two new multiple listing services—Southeast Michigan’s Realcomp II Ltd. and Richmond, Va. based Central Virginia Regional Multiple Listing Service (CVR MLS).
DPR is now available to more than 335,000 real estate professionals through 20 multiple listing services and REALTOR® Associations.”

I really think this is a great resource for agents and consumers. We recently launched this as a report page option in Cloud CMA.

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See you in New Orleans!

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