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BrokerIPTV: Today we are talking with Terrell Williams, the Managing Broker of Western Home and Land and Metrolist board member, Terrell welcome to the show.

Terrell Williams: Thank you Dan pleasure to be here.

BrokerIPTV: Thanks for being here. Today we are talking about Metrolist they made some big news recently.

Terrell Williams: Yes.

BrokerIPTV: Got some people nervous that all of a sudden a couple of systems are going away. MYmls and the Legacy system are no longer going to be provided is that right?

Terrell Williams: As of September 15th we are retiring the older systems.

BrokerIPTV: Now it doesn't bother me because I am a techy guy and I have been using Prime Access but I know some of the older realtors who have been using a legacy system for years and MYmls you know changed kind of creates little stress what have you heard?

Terrell Williams: It does. Well we have heard from some of those folks that they are worried about the transition, they are worried about losing their favorite features, worried about losing their favorite functionality pretty much though that's been limited to a handful of people not anywhere near the response that we had feared as a worst case scenario that's gone very smoothly.

BrokerIPTV: All right so inevitably the next question to come out of their mouths are why are you retiring them?

Terrell Williams: Of course the answer is simple it was time. The older systems were based on technology that was literally decades old. All technology has a life cycle MLS systems are no different Prime Access is based on the latest dot net technologies that allow us to have functionality and flexibility into the future and frankly the older systems were dragging us down, they were keeping us from doing things that improve Prime Access to allow it to move forward.

BrokerIPTV: Now I am sure some brokers say well I use virtual office I use WyldFyre those work with MYmls what's going to happen to those products?

Terrell Williams: Not a thing. We are committed Metrolist is committed to supporting third party vendors. WyldFyre, Virtual Office and so on as well as IDX solutions all of these things will continue to be supportive through the web interface.

BrokerIPTV: Now was there anyone out there like me that said that's okay because I didn't use those to begin with, I used Prime Access?

Terrell Williams: You know the newest brokers yes.

BrokerIPTV: Yeah okay.

Terrell Williams: I myself had an earlier career in technology and came to real estate as a second career and so my use of MYmls was limited. I was introduced to Prime Access right from the beginning and so a lot of us have, cut our teeth on Prime Access and are very comfortable and familiar with it. So the transition has gone very well and we are excited about being able to move forward and add new features.

BrokerIPTV: Now there is certainly were some brokers that said "Hey that Prime Access is great". I will learn that somewhere down the line, but now they are going to have to get to love to speed a little quicker.

Terrell Williams: Well yes we assume that that's the case and as a result we have since the beginning of July, added many new training classes, our new office near at I-25 and Arapahoe has an expanded training facility to accommodate lots more people at one time but also we have added additional classes in terms of more higher frequency more often each month we have added classes at broker offices and added some online capabilities just that all of these are being used heavily and we assume that there will be even more of a rush in the next couple of weeks.

BrokerIPTV: Yeah I bet there will and last two weeks maybe little hectic for you, thanks so much.

Terrell Williams: Exactly.

BrokerIPTV: For the information I appreciate.

Terrell Williams: It's a pleasure, thank you.

ABOUT TERRELL WILLIAMS:

Terrell Williams is the managing broker of Western Home & Land Specialists, and Metrolist Board Member. He specializes in residential real estate in the Western Denver metropolitan area and Land Sales all over Colorado.

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BrokerIPTV: Today we are talking to Sandi Zimmerman, Chairman of the Board for Metrolist. Sandi welcome to the show, glad you are here.

Sandi Zimmerman: Yeah and thank you very much, it's nice to be here.

BrokerIPTV: Tell me about some of the advantages of Metrolist?

Sandi Zimmerman: We are the largest MLS in the region and we have 18,000 members.

BrokerIPTV: Wow.

Sandi Zimmerman: We also have our own website called REColorado, which is a great advantage to all of our participants. They love that it gives more exposure to both their sellers, as well as near buyers they maybe working with and what they are looking for.

BrokerIPTV: Wow. 

Sandi Zimmerman: We have 3800 people that have their own IDX sites. Now, another tool for us to get the recheck clients, whether they are seller or buyers or just the public that's out there kind of looking and saying "What's going on in Colorado?" In our inventory we have the largest inventory around here with 18,000 members that also helps their inventory, which helps us with our buyers and sellers, right?

BrokerIPTV: Sure. As a member though I didn't know about REColorado?

Sandi Zimmerman: Really?

BrokerIPTV: Yeah.

Sandi Zimmerman: Oh, that's awesome REColorado is our own website that we update in everyday. We are actually uploading our all of the listings to go automatically out there for you.

BrokerIPTV: As a member, what services are available to me?

Sandi Zimmerman: We have the state of art training room. If we have been at Metrolist we got a great training and another thing that we also do deal with our staff now is coming out to a lot of the broker offices and doing the training that we have going on right now too.

Our technical support I think support I think is fantastic. They are there 364 days out of the year. So, pretty much accept everyday, except the Christmas there. They are to help you if you have any problems and I think that's a huge advantage. I think our staff, we have a wonderful staff there. You talk to real people, that's one of the things I like whether it's the training or the staff, if you need help on any aspect, we got the courteous staff there that's helpful and if they don't know, they will find it out and get back with you. I think that's a another huge help that we have.

BrokerIPTV: And those classes are CEC credits?

Sandi Zimmerman: That's great too. Not all of them, but yes a lot of them are CEC credits and a lot of people don't know that. That's another thing that if you are needing that or one you think you are training and learning, as well as earning those credits, all in one.

BrokerIPTV: Yes. What are the tools are available to members?

Sandi Zimmerman: Well, we have a lot of different things that I... the most recent the Prime Access has just come out with its MS Virtual Earth mapping and that's fantastic. We are finding people just absolutely love the mapping. We also have showng assist, if your office uses showing assist or they may or may not even know about it, but that's another great way for people to use that and be able to setup appointments.

BrokerIPTV: I love Showing Assist, if I don't have to pickup the phone and I can just click and make my showing appointment, that makes me so happy.

Sandi Zimmerman: You are right, it is so easy. Just go online, set them up, set it for [Sign] comes back to you, you know...

BrokerIPTV: Its half of my time?

Sandi Zimmerman: Yeah, sometimes even a more of your time I think trying to track back down the lock boxes or some even maybe didn't call you back or something along those lines.

BrokerIPTV: Yeah and I like the mapping, because when I am look up all of my potential listings and I am going to go out and take a look at, I can kind of see in relation on the map how far apart they are from each other.

Sandi Zimmerman: Exactly.

BrokerIPTV: Helps a lot.

Sandi Zimmerman: And so many other things, I am not sure if you tried up. You know we now we have forms online, Instanet, as well as document management, the Instanet plus DocBox. That's another great tool that we have just come out with recently and we are getting a lot of really great feedback from that too.

BrokerIPTV: And all of this is available to me as a member for my normal monthly fee?

Sandi Zimmerman: We don't have any hidden cost, there is nothing there. All of this is free to you with that monthly fee.

BrokerIPTV: Sandi, thanks so much. Appreciate it.

Sandi Zimmerman: Thanks , it's a pleasure.