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Does your MLS host CCR's & Plats and HOA Contacts on their servers?

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Real Estate Agent with Progressive Realty (Boise Idaho) www.Progressive-Realty.info DB-17066

I have recommended that our Multiple Listing Service start a new member benefit of hosting these documents and contacts.  Currently, agents get copies of the CCR's and plat maps from their favorite title company and then upload them for each listing (if they even bother to post them as associated documents).

I have suggested to our CEO that they get clean copies from a title company and upload them so agents just need to link to them in the future.  This way, we should have cleaner copies on file and save a lot of time redundantly entering the same CCR's and plat maps over and over and over again.

If they would track the HOA's, then there would always be the HOA contact data on file and current dues, transfer fees and set up fees on file.

I would love ActiveRain member feedback on this so I can share the results with our CEO if this idea makes sense.  Even if we had to hire a college intern to get this set up the first time, it wouldn't take too much to keep up to date as new communities are approved and added and then each year, we would just have to touch bases with HOA's to update their fees accordingly.

I welcome your thoughts and input!

Comments (4)

MichelleCherie Carr Crowe .Just Call. 408-252-8900
Get Results Team...Just Call (408) 252-8900! . DRE #00901962 . Licensed to Sell since 1985 . Altas Realty - San Jose, CA
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I wish that ours would do this for HOA info & docs, we do have for plat maps.

Jul 16, 2018 10:45 PM
Chris Ann Cleland
Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA
Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

Who would be in charge of the input?  The way the MLS works, by definition, is the agents put in the data.  As far as that goes, the info provided even on the listings, is only as good as the data they put in.   

Jul 17, 2018 08:20 AM
Jim Paulson

Great question Chris Ann Cleland I suggest this being a staff function.  In todays automated world, there is a very underutilized thing called "conditional logic".  Think of it as the old "if / then" flow charts, etc.  If this address (goes to look up table) then that school; if this subdivision, then insert plat and CCR's; etc. 

Jul 17, 2018 02:04 PM
Anna "Banana" Kruchten
HomeSmart Real Estate - Phoenix, AZ
602-380-4886

Jim that would be a masssive undertaking for our area as it's huge. Not sure MLS would even consider the idea. I like it thou....

Jul 17, 2018 08:45 AM
Jim Paulson

Anna Banana Kruchten CRB, CRS 602-380-4886 it would take a little it of time once upfront and then updated annually.  For my immediate area, in Ada County (Boise, Id) there are 571 subdivisions noted in our MLS.  If I was extremely slow, I should be able to still drive to the title company, have them print them, have me scan them, and I would still be done in a week.  However, if I logged into their website, downloaded them, re-uploaded them, I bet I would be done in two days.

Jul 17, 2018 02:11 PM
Myrl Jeffcoat
Sacramento, CA
Greater Sacramento Realtor - Retired

I don't believe our local MLS does.  It would certainly be a benefit if they did however.  But, I also agree with Anna's #3 comment.  It would likely be a huge undertaking to include it.

Jul 18, 2018 12:24 AM