Austin Board of REALTORS® Criticism Generates Results, Problems

Last week, I wrote a much talked-about article about the controversy surrounding the Austin Board of REALTOR®'s late launch of the new MLS tool, MLXchange. Top issues included:

• Numerous kinks and flaws set members back during these last few weeks of the holiday season.
• Mac users could not access automated home reports or personalized sites. Worse, agents were told the issue "may never be resolved".
• I wondered why ABOR limits access by consumers to MLS statistics and data that is provided in detail by Houston and San Antonio.

GOOD NEWS!

Although I didn't see a press release or announcement, my own tests showed that Mac/Safari/Firefox users should be able to see properties from MLXchange as of last Thursday. I was elated and felt that ABOR escalated the browser issue after the public made it clear that this fix could not be ignored or delayed.

MO' CONTROVERSY, MO' PROBLEMS

Jim A. in Austin sent an email on the 23rd about the domain pointer (AustinMLSonline.com) that I mentioned in the post about MLXchange issues.

Jim's said, "Dee, your use of the MLS acronym is against ABOR policies (and recent NAR policies as well). Please remove this domain, or I'll report you to ABOR."