When comparing the week of April 18 – April 24 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox increased 10.6% in Washington and decreased 11.6% in Oregon.
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Oregon
Archive
View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.
Here’s a quick rundown of upcoming real estate events and education for May in Oregon and Southern Washington. If you have an event that is not listed here, please let us know by commenting below. For future events, please send an e-mail to communications (at) rmls (dot) com.
RMLS™ Events:
Broker Education Series – May 18
Join RMLS™ for this educational event on March 18 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at The Kroc Center in Salem. Step-by-step training will show you how to successfully present, negotiate, and sign exclusive buyer representation agreements. This course provides great tools for qualifying buyers, negotiating professional service fees, signing representation agreements, and overcoming broker and buyer objections to exclusive representation.
Topic: Exclusive Buyer Representation Agreements
Speaker: Rick Harris, ABR CIPS CRS SFR
When: May 18, 2011 9:00am – 12:00pm
Cost: FREE!
For more information and to register, click here.
RMLS™ Reduced Initiation Fees!
RMLS™ posted its first listings in 1991! To honor our anniversary, we will be holding a special promotion of reduced office initiation fees during the upcoming months of April and May. All initiation fees will be reduced to $50. For more information on this promotion, you can email our Accounting department at accounting@rmls.com, or call them at 503-872-8003. Or, you can stop in to the nearest RMLS™ office. For more information, see this flyer.
Events around the region:
-May 3: East Metropolitan Association of REALTORS® presents a morning ZipForms training session from 10:00am to 11:00am and an afternoon training session from 2:00pm to 3:00pm at the EMAR office in Gresham. For more information, see here.
-May 5: W & R Studios presents two FREE Cloud CMA workshops at the RMLS™ Portland Board Room. For more information and to register, click the following links for the morning class or the afternoon class.
-May 5: Greater Portland Area Chapter Women’s Council of REALTORS® hosts its 8th Annual Spring Fashion Show: it’s a Fashion Fiesta! The event will be held from 5:30pm to 9:30pm at the University Club of Portland. For more information and to purchase tickets, please click here.
-May 12-13, 18-19: Earth Advantage Institute presents S.T.A.R. The Earth Advantage Broker Certification in Bend on May 12-13, and Portland on May 18-19. For more information and to register, click here.
-May 18: Portland Metropolitan Association of REALTORS® hosts the 2011 Portland First Citizen Banquet honoring Mercy Corps at 11:30am at the Governor Hotel. For more information, click here.
Also, if you are an RMLS™ subscriber, we have lots of FREE educational opportunities at a location near you; click the link for your area to view the May Training Calendar:
–Coos County
–Eastern Oregon
–Eugene
–Gresham
–Hood River
–Portland
–Roseburg
–Salem
–Vancouver
When comparing the week of April 11 – April 17 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox increased 1.8% in Washington and 0.1% in Oregon.
Washington
Oregon
Archive
View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.
When comparing the week of April 4 – April 10 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox decreased 7.8% in Washington and 1.5% in Oregon.
Washington
Oregon
Archive
View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.
Sometime during the last decade, the term “social media” grew more fiercely than wildfire. Social networking sites such as Facebook, Foursquare and LinkedIn were created. To go even farther, we began to see social media in the form of blogging (WordPress, Blogspot), micro-blogging (Twitter), online reviewing (Yelp), photo-sharing (Flickr) and smart purchasing (Groupon).
It’s difficult trying to keep up with the constant flow of new social media applications, trends and products that come on the market each day. Due to the fact that social media has started to play a more key role in the real estate industy, RMLS™ is making an effort at “keeping up with the Joneses.”
Here’s how you can benefit from our efforts:
Did you know you can check up on our Twitter feed, Facebook page and RMLS™ Updates blog, without creating an account of your own? Say there is an RMLSweb outage (which is not something we like to think about, but it has happened before) and you want up-to-date information, here is what you can do:
Twitter: Go to http://twitter.com/RMLSweb
This will take you to the RMLS™ Twitter account, where you can see all of our recent “tweets” and our Twitter profile (even if you don’t have a Twitter account of your own!). From here, you can choose to “follow” us if you have an account! We recommend you do so in order to stay current with our updates.
Facebook: Go to http://www.facebook.com/RMLSweb
Here, you will be directed to our Facebook page! A goal of ours for 2011 is to increase our fan base on our Facebook page. Since we’re on the hunt for new fans, make sure to “like” our page!
Blog: For those of you who may have stumbled upon a link to this blog, at any time you can access it by going to: http://rmlsweb.wordpress.com/
We plan on doing some cool contests and giveaways in the future for those following us on Twitter and Facebook. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to win some free stuff! Also, don’t forget to tune in for these weekly events:
Finally, if you are looking to become a more efficient social media user, check out tools such as Hootsuite and TweetDeck that allow you to view and post to your Twitter, Facebook and Blog feeds – all at once!
Happy social media adventures!
When comparing the week of March 28 – April 3 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox decreased 7.9% in Washington and increased 6.7% in Oregon.
Washington
Oregon
Archive
View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.
When comparing the week of March 21 – March 27 with the week prior, the number of times an RMLS™ subscriber opened a Supra lockbox increased 13.6% in Washington and remained approximately even (just eight opens less than week prior) in Oregon.
Washington
Oregon
Archive
View an archive of the Supra lockbox statistical reports on Flickr.
Here’s a quick rundown of upcoming real estate events and education for April in Oregon and Southern Washington. If you have an event that is not listed here, please let us know by commenting below. For future events, please send an e-mail to communications (at) rmls (dot) com.
RMLS™ Events:
2011 RMLS™ Trade Fair!
The 2011 RMLS™ Trade Fair will take place at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland from 9:30am to 4pm on April 21st, with a reception immediately following at 4pm and ending at 6pm. Attendee registration is now available, and registrants will have the chance to win one of two grand prizes! For more information and to register, see the Trade Fair website.
RMLS™ Reduced Initiation Fees!
RMLS™ posted its first listings in 1991! To honor our anniversary, we will be holding a special promotion of reduced office initiation fees during the upcoming months of April and May. All initiation fees will be reduced to $50. For more information on this promotion, you can email our Accounting department at accounting@rmls.com, or call them at 503-872-8003. Or, you can stop in to the nearest RMLS™ office. For more information, see this flyer.
Events around the region:
-April 7-8: Oregon Chapter Council of Residential Specialists presents CRS 206: Technologies to Advance Your Business. For more information, see here.
-April 8: Portland Metropolitan Association of REALTORS® presents its Law and Rule Required Course. For more information, please see here.
-April 13: Oregon Association of REALTORS® Young Professionals Network presents “Using Facebook and Blogging to Build Your Business” from 8:00 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. at the Salem Conference Center. For more information and to register, see the event flyer.
-April 13-14: Clackamas Community College presents its two-day Real Estate Continuing Education Seminar Series. For more information and to preregister, see the flyer.
-April 14-15: The 2nd Annual Southern Oregon Commercial Real Estate Marketing Conference is held at Seven Feathers Casino in Canyonville, Oregon. For more information and to register, click here.
-April 23: Earth Advantage Institute hosts its annual Earth Day Run! For more information, see here.
Also, if you are an RMLS™ subscriber, we have lots of FREE educational opportunities at a location near you; click the link for your area to view the February Training Calendar:
–Coos County
–Eastern Oregon
–Eugene
–Florence
–Gresham
–Hood River
–Portland
–Roseburg
–Salem
–Vancouver
One of the most common requests we have received in the past is to update Listing Load so that it is compatible with the Firefox browser. As a result, in early February the RMLS™ Board of Directors voted to make Listing Load enhancements and Firefox compatibility a top priority for projects to complete in 2011. Well, we are happy to announce the ability to use Listing Load with your Firefox browser is now available!
To clarify, this announcement is in regard to the compatibility of Firefox with Listing Load. While there are some features of RMLSweb that still are not functional in the Firefox browser, this release is a major step toward full compatibility. (For a list of the functions that are still not fully compatible outside of Internet Explorer, please see Document 1765.) We have tested and approved Listing Load with Firefox Version 3.6.16 and Version 4, and we have also tested it in the Firefox browser on both Windows and the Mac operating system!
Here are some items to keep in mind when using Listing Load in Firefox:
If you have any questions or run into any problems or issues, please feel free to call Help Desk at 503-872-8002 or toll-free at 877-256-2169 and mention that you are using Firefox.
RMLS™ posted its first listings in 1991! To honor our anniversary, we will be holding a special promotion of a reduced Office Initiation Fee during the upcoming months of April and May, 2011. In fact, all office initiation fees (branch, etc.) will be reduced to $50. This is a great opportunity for offices to join RMLS™ and experience the benefits of sharing with more than 10,000 Realtors® accessing your client’s listings.
Main Office Initiation Fee: Regularly $500, now just $50!
Branch Office Initiation Fee: Regularly $100, now just $50!
Affiliate Office Initiation Fee: Regularly $400, now just $50!
For basic membership information, visit www.rmlsbenefits.com. Questions? Feel free to email our Accounting department at accounting@rmls.com, or call them at 503-872-8003, or stop in to the nearest RMLS™ office.
Available in April and May, 2011 ONLY!
