Jennifer Pollock discovers Denver.
Is Denver Metrolist system an MLS of choice?
by Jennifer Pollock on February 11, 2010
As a current member of the Denver Board of Realtors, I am posting my thoughts on the changes happening in the real estate community of Denver.
For many years the Realtor community of Denver had only one avenue to promote and sell Denver homes online.
This system is called Metrolist. Since I became a Realtor almost 8+ years ago we did not have options on where we could post and sell our homes. We all used Metrolist in Denver.
Welcome to 2010 and things have opened up in terms of promoting homes for sale online.
Currently in the Denver marketplace there are two options to promote our homes online.
These two competing entities are called Metrolist and IRES. We finally had a choice as to which MLS system us Realtors could choose to pay for.
I was introduced to the IRES model around 1 year ago and found it an incredibly powerful tool to provide to both my buyers and sellers here in Denver.
I love the way IRES offers me a program to have my buyers receive listings three times per day as new homes come on the market. This allows me and my buyers faster access to the best homes quickly. I have many happy homebuyers because of this system.
Additionally, IRES has a new CMA (market analysis) program that is efficient and produces beautiful documents for me to deliver to my sellers to discuss how to price and sell their home. Metrolist currently does not offer the Cloud CMA program.
Cloud CMA is easy to use and offers a beautiful electronic/print format CMA program that meets my needs as a busy, active, full-time realtor. There are many more features that IRES offers but I will not bore you with all the details here.
I chose to subscribe to the IRES MLS service for a full year in December 2009. After making this decision and paying up front for a full year I have been told that I must subscribe to a $38 per month fee to belong to Denver's Metrolist.
Metrolist does not offer me as a broker at a large real estate firm the option of paying a small fee to appease Metrolist while I continue to access all my data on the IRES system.
By being a willing subscriber to IRES and an unwillilng subscriber to Metrolist I am essentially paying almost $900.00 per year to access the same data on two different systems.
All I want to do is subscribe to the system that I choose without being punished and forced to subscribe to a system I don't like and won't use other than to input listings so they look good on the Metrolist system and receive IDX feeds to my website.
I would love to get comments from other Denver Realtors, friends, business owners on this practice and your thoughts on the Metrolist subscriber issues.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Pollock, Happy IRES subscriber.
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