{"id":3920,"date":"2008-08-15T21:36:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T04:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2008-08-16T06:52:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T13:52:19","slug":"my-blossoming-love-affair-with-flexmls-the-new-mls-system-adopted-by-the-arizona-regional-multiple-listings-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3920\/my-blossoming-love-affair-with-flexmls-the-new-mls-system-adopted-by-the-arizona-regional-multiple-listings-service\/","title":{"rendered":"My blossoming love affair with flexMLS, the new MLS system adopted by the Arizona Regional Multiple Listings Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/Story.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>is the F.Q. Story Historic District in Downtown Phoenix as rendered by the flexMLS MLS system recently adopted by the Arizona Regional Multiple Listings Service. ARMLS is 30,000 Realtors working in the fifth largest city in the U.S. &#8212; and the 14th largest market area &#8212; so this is a big MLS system by any measure.<\/p>\n<p>This particular map looks a whole lot better on the screen. I had to scale drastically to get it to fit here. Here&#8217;s the good news: You can see it for real, live, on a &#8220;portal&#8221; that I built for this post.<\/p>\n<p>Do this:<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/portal.flexmls.com\/pomswann\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Your user name is: Jack Swilling<\/p>\n<p>Your password is: demo<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t reset the password, or no one else will be able to get in. For all of me, I would make passwords optional, but that&#8217;s only because I hate them with the passionate heat of a thousand suns &#8212; no big deal.<\/p>\n<p>I built this search to show off just a little bit of what flexMLS can do. I&#8217;m not even a good tour guide on the subject. Cathy has a much richer base of experience than mine. For all the gee whiz technology we talk about around here, I am not an early adopter. The words you are most likely to hear from my mouth, when discussing new technology, are &#8220;mission critical,&#8221; and I won&#8217;t risk a mission critical function on something new until it is completely tested. I&#8217;ve been in love with the iPhone for 19 months &#8212; and I&#8217;m getting mine next week.<\/p>\n<p>But, even so, this software is cool.<\/p>\n<p>In the photo (or in the map view in the portal), you will see that I have defined F.Q. Story as three irregular polygons. Why? Because Realtors can&#8217;t spell. In principle, I should be able to use the &#8220;Subdivision&#8221; field in the MLS listing &#8212; but I don&#8217;t trust it. If the address is mapped correctly &#8212; and flexMLS makes it difficult to map a home improperly &#8212; it will show up in a polygon search.<\/p>\n<p>And because I can use multiple non-contiguous irregular polygons to define a search, I can base my search of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3920\/my-blossoming-love-affair-with-flexmls-the-new-mls-system-adopted-by-the-arizona-regional-multiple-listings-service\/#more-3920\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the F.Q. Story Historic District in Downtown Phoenix as rendered by the flexMLS MLS system recently adopted by the Arizona Regional Multiple Listings Service. ARMLS is 30,000 Realtors working in the fifth largest city in the U.S. &#8212; and the 14th largest market area &#8212; so this is a big MLS system by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","8":"category-technology","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3652,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3652\/new-flexmls-system-is-a-bold-stride-into-the-twenty-first-century-for-phoenix-area-multiple-listings-service\/","url_meta":{"origin":3920,"position":0},"title":"New FlexMLS system is a bold stride into the twenty-first century for Phoenix-area Multiple Listings Service","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my column for this week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link). \u00a0New FlexMLS system is a bold stride into the twenty-first century for Phoenix-area Multiple Listings Service Metropolitan Phoenix got a brand new MLS system this week. 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