BrokerIPTV: Today we are talking with Terrell Williams, the Managing Broker of Western Home and Land and Metrolist board member, Terrell welcome to the show.
Terrell Williams: Thank you Dan pleasure to be here.
BrokerIPTV: Thanks for being here. Today we are talking about metrolist they made some big news recently.
Terrell Williams: Yes.
BrokerIPTV: Got some people nervous that all of a sudden a couple of systems are going away. MyMLS and the legacy system are no longer going to be provided is that right?
Terrell Williams: As of September 15th we are retiring the older systems.
BrokerIPTV: Now it doesn't bother me because I am a techy guy and I have been using Prime Access but I know some of the older realtors who have been using a legacy system for years and MyMLS you know changed kind of creates little stress what have you heard?
Terrell Williams: It does. Well we have heard from some of those folks that they are worried about the transition, they are worried about losing their favorite features, worried about losing their favorite functionality pretty much though that's been limited to a handful of people not anywhere near the response that we had feared as a worst case scenario that's gone very smoothly.
BrokerIPTV: All right so inevitably the next question to come out of their mouths are why are you retiring them?
Terrell Williams: Of course the answer is simple it was time. The older systems were based on technology that was literally decades old. All technology has a life cycle MLS systems are no different Prime Access is based on the latest dot net technologies that allow us to have functionality and flexibility into the future and frankly the older systems were dragging us down, they were keeping us from doing things that improve Prime Access to allow it to move forward.
BrokerIPTV: Now I am sure some brokers say well I use virtual office I use Wildfire those work with MyMLS what's going to happen to those products?
Terrell Williams: Not a thing. We are committed Metrolist is committed to supporting third party vendors. Wildfire, Virtual Office and so on as well as IDX solutions all of these things will continue to be supportive through the web interface.
BrokerIPTV: Now was there anyone out there like me that said that's okay because I didn't use those to begin with, I used Prime Access?
Terrell Williams: You know the newest brokers yes.
BrokerIPTV: Yeah okay.
Terrell Williams: I myself had an earlier career in technology and came to real estate as a second career and so my use of MyMLS was limited. I was introduced to Prime Access right from the beginning and so a lot of us have, cut our teeth on Prime Access and are very comfortable and familiar with it. So the transition has gone very well and we are excited about being able to move forward and add new features.
BrokerIPTV: Now there is certainly were some brokers that said "Hey that Prime Access is great; I will learn that somewhere down the line, but now they are going to have to get to love to speed a little quicker.
Terrell Williams: Well yes we assume that that's the case and as a result we have since the beginning of July, added many new training classes, our new office near at I-25 and Arapahoe has an expanded training facility to accommodate lots more people at one time but also we have added additional classes in terms of more higher frequency more often each month we have added classes at broker offices and added some online capabilities just that all of these are being used heavily and we assume that there will be even more of a rush in the next couple of weeks.
BrokerIPTV: Yeah I bet there will and last two weeks maybe little hectic for you, thanks so much.
Terrell Williams: Exactly.
BrokerIPTV: For the information I appreciate.
Terrell Williams: It's a pleasure, thank you.
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