Denver's Metrolist is not your Dad's MLS

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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 Metrolist here 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. <watch video>

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: In 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 assistant, 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 whoever there, it's a pleasure.

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Posted on October 03, 2008 01:34:54 by Blog Author