News & Past Hot Tips

September 2006

Here are a few tips for marketing township properties:

Use the “Other Market Area” field. If you add what you think is the most appropriate bordering city or village as the Other Market Area, your township listing will come up in searches for that city or village on Paragon and on wisconsinhomes.com. You may want to consider location, school district or mailing address when making this decision.

Start your remarks with something like “Only 2 miles east of the City of Sun Prairie.” Most of the public websites, including just recently Realtor.com, include the remarks section of your listing.

If the street number of your rural listing begins with an alpha character, do not move the alpha character to the street direction field. The W or N before the street number is part of the street number, not a street direction. This is very important for correct mapping placement.

-If you work within a team and would like your team name to be included on the bottom of the customer full reports, email support@wisre.com with your team name. After we add your team name to your member record, you can customize the customer reports by clicking on Preferences, Views/Reports, and the Details tab. Open up the report you would like to change and scroll down to the bottom section in white. Double click on the white box to display the fields you can include. Select My Info – Team Name, which is located a little more than half way down. Highlight this field and click Add. Place a check mark next to the Team Name and next to No Label at the bottom and hit Save & Close. At this point, the Residential report is done. You will need to do this for each class of property. Your personal slogan can also be added in this same fashion.

August 2006

-You can search for upcoming open houses under the Search Program in Paragon. Click on Search, Property, and select the property class. Open up the Advanced Criteria section at the bottom to find the Open House Date search prompt.

June 2006

-The map on views/reports (i.e. customer full with map) can be adjusted to display a preferred zoom level. If you have access to add and change listings, you can find this adjustment under Listings, Maintain and Change GeoCode. Once you adjust the zoom level and save it, the map on views/reports will hold that zoom level.

-Two new listing features have been added to Paragon. Rental Allowed is now listed as an option under Terms/Misc for Condo listings. If you have an active listing that includes this feature, please edit your listing to include it.