Board member of Metrolist Terrell Williams describes Prime Access as #1 Platform

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

Terrell Williams: Hi Dan.

BrokerIPTV: Well we have been talking about Prime Access and the news that Metrolist made that Prime Access is going to be their #1 platform, MyMLS and the legacy system will be retired.

Terrell Williams: That's right.

BrokerIPTV: So some people are nervous about they want to get some information out?

Terrell Williams: Sure.

BrokerIPTV: All right tell people what's great about Prime Access?

Terrell Williams: Well to me the single greatest aspect of Prime Access that is far and away better than what we had previously is power search. Power search has enormous capability, enormous functionality, especially with the addition of the map search tool within it as one aspect of the search tool, but to me it speeds things up, it allows us to save the searches in a way that that make sense, the searches that we do the most often. We can modify and customize them and especially using the map tools search according to a geographic constraint a polygon radius instead of being constrained by the old areas that sometimes may just lose something across the border or whatever.

BrokerIPTV: And that's my favorite tool on the whole thing and the reason being is that there are lot of times where I will type in the subdivision incorrectly.

Terrell Williams: Yes.

BrokerIPTV:There will be brokers that put the home in two subdivisions.

Terrell Williams: Right.

BrokerIPTV: And what if they lose this subdivision ahead of this one and then you don't get the results? So I just stopped using subdivision, I go right to the map feature, type in the address, they show me everything within half mile or a mile of this address and it works great for me.

Terrell Williams: Absolutely great example. I live in Wheat Ridge and do a lot of business in Wheat Ridge and the same thing happens there in little bit different way because we have three zip codes in Wheat Ridge too which are associated with Denver and so if we just put in Wheat Ridge, those properties on the Eastern edge are found and so I can create a polygon that describes Wheat Ridge and exactly the way you described it.

BrokerIPTV: Now people are using data in a variety of ways these days and they want raw data that they can use for something else in a different application for this.

Terrell Williams: Sure.

BrokerIPTV: And the thing that I like about Prime Access is you can export, export that data.

Terrell Williams: Sure.

BrokerIPTV: And use it for other uses correct?

Terrell Williams: Right you can download it in a couple of different formats whichever is convenient to you as a spreadsheet or text or whatever you want to do. So you do your basic search and you could be searching for all of the properties you know that are sold in the last few months in a given area same kind of search capability you had previously, but then as instead of sending it out as a report format to a customer just download it as into whatever format you like as a spreadsheet or whatever and then take it into excel or whatever your tools are at database and do those manipulations there.

BrokerIPTV: Tell me about the statistics tool as well.

Terrell Williams: Well the statistics is a powerful capability as well so that as you finished a search you can find out what the... what the averages were, what the commonalities were, how many they were according to all the different statistical parameters and, and that can sometimes help you decide well this was, the search was waited too heavily at the high end, at the low end and so there is a lot of new functionality and capability there as well.

BrokerIPTV: Oh I like them all, I use them all thank you so much for that information I appreciate you being here.

Terrell Williams: You bet happy to here, thanks.

Posted on September 03, 2009 08:57:31 by Blog Author