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[LIST-IT®
MLS System] |
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What's Different about LIST-IT? 
Solid Earth
offers a new approach to
providing Multiple Listing Service software and has
been tested and proven in markets across the country. The most important single piece of information Solid Earth would like you
to know about us is our managed-growth approach to our business.
Solid Earth intentionally executes
very few projects per year. This plan allows our development teams
to construct each system one-at-a-time and it is this formula that is the
primary secret to our success; when our project teams are allowed to concentrate
on only one system, a high level of quality and adherence to design
requirements are much more easily achieved. It is true that this
staggering of installation dates severely limits the growth rate of the
company but it also is the reason that Solid Earth has never missed a
cutover deadline.
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Industry News and Surveys
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Real Estate Software Industry consultants Clareity in their
Fifth Annual MLS Survey of 193 leading MLS systems asked each organization to score
their MLS vendors. Nine (9) MLS vendors were rated including
Solid Earth.
- 80% of Solid Earth customers
rated the company as "Excellent", the remaining 20% rated us "Good".
- All Customers in the survey
indicated that, given a chance to, they would select Solid Earth
again.
Click here for a link to the
Clareity site where you may request a copy.
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System Design,
Implementation and Staging
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Concept:
Solid Earth does not view an MLS system as a product but
instead as
a Project involving numerous professional services
including, ultimately, the publishing of the MLS system. Prior
to that point however, there are numerous tasks that must be
accomplished and there are many opportunities during this process to
solve MLSs problems and also to create them. Solid Earth can
help with each of these steps.
- First, Solid Earth
in most cases, acquires a copy of your existing data to study how it
might be imported into the new system
- Next, Solid Earth
holds an extensive design session at your site where we go through
the profile sheets and the reports to design your new system.
At this meeting, typically directed by Solid Earth's CEO, lessons
from the dozens of conversions performed by Solid Earth can be
shared to avoid problems and identify potential efficiencies in your
organization.
- After the design
sessions, Solid Earth begins an extensive period of customization
after which the client's test group is given access to the new
system
- After testing is
complete, training begins. In our experience, it is best to
first train MLS staff, then office staff and then the agents.
- At the completion
of training, the ability to edit data in the old system is turned
off by the outgoing vendor and turned on in the new system.
The performance of this switch along with the last importation of
data from the old system constitutes cutover.
Summary:
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A High Degree of
Customization
Each installation is
substantially customized, allowing the local Association to design the
system their members have always wanted.
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A Proven,
Fault Tolerant Software Foundation
LIST-IT is built
using a powerful, stable
management system, like most of the largest Internet data systems in
the world: the latest Oracle® Relational Database Management
System platform. This foundation provides a solid architecture
on which to build the interfaces that complete the LIST-IT system.
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An "Always
On" Off-Site Live Backup System Should there ever be a
problem with the live LIST-IT system, the users are simply directed to
a separate live backup system that is always on and available for use.
With two systems on at all times, downtime with the LIST-IT system is
exceedingly rare.
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System Features
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The LIST-IT System has
many features, this is a brief list:
- Quick Search
- Pro Search
- Inventory Search
- History Search
- Statistics Module
- Hot Sheet
- Integrated Geographic
Information System (GIS) for Digital Mapping
- Integrated Public
Records including Label creation
- Document Management
System with Automated Fax-in Service
- Integrated Prospect
Manager
- Automated email system
- Agent Roster with
Photos
- Instant or user
designed flyers
- Automated Seller Net
Sheet and Buyer Closing Cost Estimate Sheet
- Mortgage and
Amortization Calculators
- Integrated Consumer
Portal
- Wireless Access
through Wireless Access Protocol (WAP)
- Export to ASCII for
PDAs and remote databases
Highlights
Free Form Report
Design The LIST-IT System
comes with literally dozens of report templates but if the REALTOR®
wishes to design their own, they can with the LIST-IT Report Designer.
The Report Designer is a proprietary report design tool that gives the
users drag and drop field placement within the browser, there are no
downloads and no plug-ins required. Once the report is designed,
the report can then be saved with other agent's in the office or
company and the MLS staff may save reports to the entire MLS.
Industry
Leading Geographic Information System Integration
Perhaps no one in the
private sector of the economy has a better business case for the use of
digital mapping than REALTORS®. The digital mapping system in
LIST-IT is unlike anything you are likely to have seen before outside of
military or engineering offices. Each system includes the capability
of mapping not just properties but also of adding multiple overlays such
as flood zones, aerial photography and much much more.
A
Comprehensive Approach to Market Analysis Reporting LIST-IT
includes more than five CMA report options including several presentation style
reports and two analytical reports one of which allows for user
defined quantitative and qualitative marginal adjustments. The
other analytical report is a unique Automated Valuation Model or AVM
which instantly processes a computer assisted selection of properties
and estimates a value and a range of value. Two of the CMAs
auto-plot the properties on a map of the area.
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Means of Access
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- LIST-IT Enterprise
The browser based User Interface to the data warehouse at the core of the
MLS system. This is how 99% of the users will access the MLS data.
- LIST-IT
Desktop The optional offline module for accessing the database when you
cannot be online
- LIST-IT
Public Site The optional public interface into the MLS data
- LIST-IT Internet
Data Exchange (IDX) A set of solutions for sharing data on the
Internet in keeping with the Broker Reciprocity initiative
- LIST-IT Wireless
An application for accessing the MLS using Wireless Web
enabled cell phone
- Interfaces to Various Third Party Software
Applications In addition to these methods for
accessing the MLS data, LIST-IT cooperates with many other vendors to
allow for MLS data synchronization using methods such as RETS Version
1.5, Persistent FTP Push, Direct Database connectivity and others.
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LIST-IT®
Demonstration
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REALTOR® Associations and Boards may
receive an on-line demonstration of the system by calling Solid Earth at
800-335-0228. Or you may send us an email at
sales@solidearth.com. Before you leave, don't miss the
comments about us from our clients!
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LIST-IT®
Brochure (PDF
Viewer Required)
 Click here to download a 9 page
overview of the LIST-IT System
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