Announcements  4/9/2009

*** ATTENTION: YOUR LICENSE MAY BE INACTIVE AT DRE ***
Attention all REALTORS, your license may have been inactivated by the Division of Real Estate (DRE). Follow this link to check your license immediately!
http://eservices.psiexams.com/search.jsp

The Division of Real Estate recently conducted an E&O insurance audit and compared their licensee list with the list provided by three insurance carriers. If a licensee’s name did not appear on any of the three insurance carrier lists, the licensee received a deactivation email; about 6000 emails were sent. The email required the licensee to contact the DRE to prove he/she had insurance.

Please do not contact RSC or PPAR to resolve this issue. Instead complete the following steps:

1. Check your license status at DRE at the above website.

2. If you are shown as inactive, verify that you and your company have a current E&O policy. If you had a break in time with no coverage, you need to apply for re-activation with the proper application and fee. Follow the directions on the change-of-status application. Only checks and guaranteed funds are accepted; not cash or credit. Do not fax forms that require a fee.

Link to change of status application:

http://www.dora.state.co.us/real-estate/application/broker/REC-LA.pdf

3. If you are shown as inactive and have had continuous insurance coverage, fax a copy of E&O insurance cover page to DRE at 303-894-2683.

4. Check with your employing broker. If an employing broker is inactivated due to E&O issues, the entire office is inactivated.

If you have any further questions, you may reach the Division of Real Estate at 303-894-2166.

PPMLS AREA BOUNDARY CHANGES:  Remember that the boundary lines for BLK-Black Forest, and FAL-Falcon changed in January.  A large section of BLK was carved out to a new Area called FAN-Falcon North.  A large section of FAL became a new Area called MRK-Marksheffel.  Please ensure that you have incorporated these changes into your Saved Searches or Prospects, and remember them when you create new searches.
El Paso PPMLS Area map.

DETERMINING LISTING DATE FOR PPMLS LISTINGS:

  • Use the "Begin Date" of the listing Period when it matches the date the Seller executed the listing agreement.

  • Use the latest date on the listing agreement when the date of the Seller's signature is later than the Begin Date of the Listing Period.

  • Note:  Use these dates as the Listing Date in the PPMLS system even if the Seller has requested that the date the listing be submitted to the PPMLS is later.  The PPMLS uses the date that covers the contract period, not the date the Seller wants the listing to be disseminated to the PPMLS.  The DOM is calculated on the contract Listing Date.

PLEASE HELP THE E-MAIL GET THROUGH TO CLIENTS!
From time to time, Internet service providers like AOL put the MLS system on their bulk senders black list, temporarily preventing MLS-generated e-mail from reaching your clients.
To help keep the MLS system off these black lists, it is very important that you do not “Mark as Spam” or “Mark as Junk” any MLS e-mail messages that you send to yourself or any notifications that you receive regarding undeliverable mail. To remove MLS-generated messages from your Inbox, please Delete them instead.
Additionally, please keep your contact list up to date and frequently review your saved searches to help ensure that e-mail is only being sent to current clients. Non-clients who continue to receive MLS e-mail are much more likely to mark messages as spam and perpetuate the black-listing problem.
UPDATE  4/15/09
During the recent issues with AOL, mls email was blocked, white listed, unblocked, and blocked again multiple times. In the end, Marketlinx found that the reason mls email was being repeatedly blocked is that AOL has a percentage threshold for Spam/Junk Mail reports. If a sender passes that threshold, they are blocked, even if they have been white listed. Marketlinx was receiving over three times that many reports over threshold. More and more since the Spam/Junk Mail buttons have been made so prevalent in most email programs, people are hitting those buttons instead of unsubscribing or requesting to be removed from emails. Even worse, Marketlinx found that a large percentage of the reports were coming from agents who were Copying themselves on all their prospect emails and then reporting them as junk mail instead of just deleting them or removing themselves from the prospect emails. If you do not want prospect email, please configure your prospect so you are not sent a copy.

ADDITIONAL PPMLS CLASSES AVAILABLE:  Remember that in addition to the Intro to PPMLS Class, RSC also offers classes and online tutorials on Custom Search/Reports, and Prospect/Client Web.
Call the RSC office at 719-635-5040, or go to http://www.pikespeakrsc.com/participants/fptrainingclasses.asp for the class schedule.

RSC POLICY ON "COMING SOON" SIGNS

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