March 2012
-Is Your Listing Being Missed? When entering a new listing into Paragon, please select all the features that apply. If you select just 2 car garage, for instance, and do not indicate attached, your listing will not come up as a match if a search is done for homes with a 2-car attached garage. Also, please do not use Call School District in place of school names unless the school district cannot provide you with specific schools. Again, if a search is done including a specific school, and you have Call School District entered instead of the actual school name, your listing will be missed. If you have not done so already, you may want to bookmark this helpful link to find school district phone numbers.
-Enhancement/Bug Fixes: – You can now switch to a birds eye view when setting the geocode for a listing. This allows you to by very accurate, as you can place the marker right on top of the roof.
-When viewing listings on a map, you can now click on the MLS number of a listing within the list to the left and it will set that listing as the center and recalculate the distance to that listing for all the other listings on the map.
-Load last search now works as it should within the HotSheet program.
-Using MLS Statistics in Marketing: If you use MLS statistics in your marketing, you must include the following to describe the data your representations are based on: A description of the type of property included (single family, condo, multi-family, waterfront, etc.),
The geography of the listings included (Dane County, City of Madison, All South Central WI MLS), The period of time covered (February 2012, 2011, 4th Quarter of 2011), and notice that the source of the data is the South Central WI MLS.
-The most recent updates to our listing profile sheets have been loaded to ZipForms. The current revision date is 3/2012.
– All members of the South Central Wisconsin MLS have access to MLS listings from eight other MLSs in Wisconsin via WIREX. There is no additional charge for WIREX. Currently, there are 83,000+ active listings in the WIREX database. WIREX covers all counties in Wisconsin with the exception of Florence, Forest, Iron, Langlade, Lincoln, Oneida, and Vilas Counties. Click here for a coverage map. To access WIREX, simply select WIREX on the drop down during Paragon login; or when in Paragon, click on the MLS Switcher link at the top of the screen. The search screens in WIREX have been set up to look very similar to the search screens in SCW Paragon, so you should feel very comfortable using WIREX.
-Listing Feature Changes
4+ Car has been added as a Garage feature selection within Single Family, and 3+ Car has been changed to 3 Car. If you have a listing with a 4+ car garage, you will need to modify that listing from 3 Car to 4+ Car.
Selections for 1 Fireplace, 2 Fireplaces, and 3+ Fireplaces have been added within the Fireplace feature for Single Family and Condo. Please modify your listings to include the number of fireplaces. If you have a double-sided fireplace, this counts as just one fireplace….not two.
Click here for updated profile sheets.