SRCAR Connect

Smart Fax will be temporarily unavailable on Saturday August 7^th between the hours of 11pm to 12am. Users attempting to send faxes will receive a busy signal until the system is available after the changes have been completed.

MRMLS Matrix, Realist, Smart Trac, Pinpoint, Mercado and other MRMLS products and services will remain online during this maintenance.

You can stay updated with the latest tools by taking an MRMLS class.

These FREE classes will help you:

• Better understand how to use the MRMLS Matrix

• Improve your ability to service your clients

The best part is… The CLASSES are FREE!!!

SRCYPN recognized in the Wishes for Children Newsletter:

“In April, the Young Professional’s Network of the Southwest Riverside County Association of Realtors donated the proceeds of their social mixer to help pay for 36 abused and neglected children and their caregivers residing at Rancho Damacitas to go on a Disneyland Magic Carpet Ride!  That eve, Jack and Sue Kelly won a 42-inch flat screen TV (donated by TVC Pools and Granite Construction) and gifted it to the Allen Learning Center in Murrieta in honor of their generous support of families with financial hardships.”

This is a notification that your Commercial, Commercial Lease and/or Business Opportunity listing will be moving to the new CARETS Property Centric Commercial system.

The new CARETS Commercial system will import all commercial listings from the MRMLS Matrix database.

When MRMLS deploys the newCARETS Commercial system, you will no longer have the ability to access your Commercial listing within Add/Edit tab of MRMLS Matrix.  Instead you will need to modify, add and search for listings through the “Commercial” tab located at the top section of MRMLS Matrix.

IMPORTANT: If you currently pull commercial data from the MRMLS RETS server to populate your website or back office system, you will need to transition over to the new CARETS Commercial Web Service to prevent any disruptions.

Please contact MRMLS customer support for more information at 800-925-1525 or fill out your request at www.imrmls.com/SupportRequest.

TRAINING: Watch out for future training opportunities within the coming weeks.  Webinars will be held prior to the deployment date.

CARETS and ePropertyData have teamed up to create a new CARETS Commercial Property Centric system.  This new system will allow you to add your commercial, commercial lease and business opportunity listings directly into the system with the ability to view commercial listings through most of Southern California.

As with any new change we look for your input.   MRMLS values and needs the input of working professionals, such as yourself, in order to make our systems everything that they should be.

IMPORTANT: if you currently pull our commercial listings to feed your website or back-end office system you will need to transition over to the new CARETS Commercial system to prevent any disruption of services.  Please contact our customer support for more information at 800-925-1525 or fill out your request at www.imrmls.com/SupportRequest

Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more training and information on how to access CARETS Commercial.

At our Mid-Winter Board of Directors meeting February 4, 2010, the California Association of REALTORS overwhelmingly voted on a motion out of the Political Affairs Committee to Begin assessing every REALTOR the amount of $49 effective in 2011 for the purpose of funding our political activities.

At the urging of the Government Affairs Director sub-forum, CAR adopted the concept during our October 2009 meetings, directing legal staff to determine the most efficient way to implement the policy.

The determination, published as an Issues Briefing Paper prior to Januarys meeting, recommended a ‘political assessment opt-over approach’, which was ultimately the direction voted on by the BOD. The opt-over provision allows the member to determine whether the investment amount shall be directed toward the REALTOR Action Fund or ‘opted-over’ to an alternative account.

With over $19 million spent during the past year, NAR ranks as one of the top ten lobbying organization in the country and the #1 grassroots trade association lobby in Washington. Having achieved so much on behalf of our members and for our customers private property rights, we cannot abandon that position now. We’ve invested too much time and money to make it happen, we can’t simply walk away from the opportunity we’ve created for ourselves.

Since 2000 the CAR political action committees (PAC’s) have grown and shrunk based on membership numbers and the real estate market. In the 2001-2002 election cycles, the PAC’s were funded by $3.8 million of voluntary political contributions. By 2006-2007, the PAC’s funding had increased to $10.1. Million In the past three years those receipts have fallen to just$2.5 million for 2009.

As our organization faces increasing challenges at the local, state and federal level, that amount is simply not enough to keep us as a serious player in the political arena.

Please reply with any comments, questions or concerns. We’d love to hear from you.

The CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS^® and Los Angeles Times present the

Southern California Home Buyer’s Fair

WHAT: The Southern California Homebuyer’s Fair, sponsored by the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS^® and the Los Angeles Times.

Educational seminars will be presented in English and Spanish and cover a wide range of topics,
including:

• How to Find and Qualify for a Home Loan
• Keeping Score: How to Monitor and Fix Your Credit
• What to Know Before You Buy
• How to Buy a Short Sale, REO, or Foreclosure
• How to Save for a Home of Your Own
• Finding and Working with a REALTOR^®, and more!

WHERE: The Los Angeles Convention Center in Downtown Los Angeles, 1201 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015.

WHEN: Saturday, March 13, 2010, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, March 14, 2010, from
11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

WHY: This two-day event is free to the public and will include educational “how-to” seminars designed to help home buyers navigate today’s real estate market with confidence and peace of mind.

EXHIBITORS: The Southern California Home Buyer’s Fair also will feature exhibit booths, where
visitors can obtain information from industry experts about a vast range of programs pertaining to
homeownership and the home-buying process.

SPECIAL PROMOTIONS: Free movie tickets to the first 200 attendees each day(one ticket per person).

ADMISSION: FREE

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please visit www.homebuyersfair.com

Total number of votes – 403

YES on Proposal to amend Bylaws – 312 (77.42%)
NO on Proposal to amend Bylaws – 48 (11.91%)
ABSTAIN – Vote counts towards quorum only – 43 (10.67%)

With the votes in, counted, and verified, the ballot has passed and the Association Bylaws will be amended.

• No more reciprocal key programming needed,
• No need to travel to a neighboring association or MLS to have your key programmed.
• No additional cost to you!

All agents who are members of an Association in Riverside, San Bernardino, LA, Orange and Ventura, Counties that are part of CARETS are now on a new “Cooperative Server” and that means your key will open any box within the CARETS area.

The Coop server is set up to operate on a real-time basis. Therefore, when a key is added or changed it is immediately sent to the Coop server.

There are no extra steps.

Your MLS and CARETS have been working to accomplish this enhanced keyservice for more than a year and the task is now complete.

This is one more step in CARETS goals of giving our members the access they need to list and show properties within the CARETS areas, without having extra expense or extra work for either members or association staffs.

To view the areas that your key is set up to work in simply log into SupraWEB and click on the link for “Update Code”.

MRMLS Matrix is now pulling Open House information from the participating MLSs of CARETS–they include CLAW, CristNet, iTech and SoCalMLS.

MRMLS Matrix now provides YOU AND YOUR CLIENTS information on all Open Houses entered into the MLSs throughout Southern California from the San Fernando Valley to Temecula and from the Inland Empire & Foothills to the Pacific Ocean.

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