8/25/2011 MLSLI.com Site Redesigned With New Brand & Quick Search

MLSLI.com has been redesigned to reflect the company?s new brand and offers an improved user experience.  MLSLI.com now offers visitors access to a Quick Search feature placed on the home page, which allows consumers to search for a home or search for open houses quickly and easily. Visitors can now enter a town, or multiple towns, in the search box right from the home page on the Find a Home and Open House sections of the site. Results are now just one click away!

The new MLSLI.com incorporates the elements of the new MLSLI brand that was created in 2010. By applying the specific range of colors and fonts created for MLSLI, we insure that our website is consistent with our new corporate identity.

8/8/2011 New Listing Fields Added In Stratus

New listing fields in Stratus were installed for Add/Edit and listing reports in the legacy Stratus system and NEW Stratus that included the following:

1. MBR 1st Floor for Residential, Condo, Rental (new field)

2. Parking (Y/N) for Condo, Rental (new field)

3. Pet Type (Dog, Cat) for  Condo, Rental (new field). This is a multi-select field where you can select 2 choices.

4. Total Taxes for Residential, Condo, Commercial, Land (new field) is auto-stored by adding Taxes and Village Taxes.

Note: A conversion was done for all existing listings where Total Taxes has been populated by add the sum or Taxes & Villages Taxes.

5. Rental Type on Rentals is now a multi-select field where you can select up to 6 choices. i.e. Memorial-Labor, June, July

6. Green Feature Desc for Residential & Condo has been replaced with new fields:

• Green Certification - Y/N
• Certification Type - Select 1 choice. Choices include Energy Star, HERS, Leed Gold, Leed Platinum
• Certification Year

7.  Energy Efficiency - This is a multi-select field where you can select up to 20 choices including:

• Energy Star Stove Energy Star Refrigerator
• Energy Star Dishwasher Energy Star Washer
• Energy Star Dryer Energy Star Water Heater
• Geothermal Water Heater Solar Water Heater
• Tankless Water Heater Double Pane Windows
• Insulated Windows Tinted Windows
• Triple Pane Windows Energy Star Windows
• Storm Doors Insulated Doors
• Energy Star Doors Foam Insulation
• Cellulose Insulation Blown Insulation
• Programmable Thermostat Low Flow Showers/ Fixtures
• Low Flow/Dual Flush Toilet Gray Water System
• Energy Start Furnace Geothermal Heating
• Energy Star A/C Energy Star CAC
• Geothermal A/C Solar A/C
• Solar Pool Cover Windmill

8. For Land, for the following fields a choice of P (f or Pending) has been added as a choice along with Y and N:

• Board of Health Approved
• Building Permit
• Planning Board Approved

9. For Land, the field City Water has been change to Public Water.

8/1/2011 MLS Charts & Graphs Market Generator

The Multiple Listing Service of Long Island Inc. is pleased to offer MLSLI subscribers the first-ever in-house market report generator. Market reports for Nassau, Suffolk, and Queens can now be generated by town, zip code, or county. Report comparisons are available with one month and year to date comparisons for indicators that include closed and pending sales. All report results are compiled using current and historical MLSLI system data.

With the new Market Generator Reporting tool, MLSLI subscribers can generate a variety of housing activity reports that will allow consumers to see how the housing market is performing in their area. Additionally, generated reports can be saved, printed, emailed, or posted on facebook, twitter, or other social media outlets.

LIBOR members can access the new report generator from www.LIRealtor.com by clicking on the Reasearch & Data link.  

4/27/2011 Single Sign On Installed For Stratus & LIRealtor.com

Single Sign On has been implemented for both Stratus MLS and LIRealtor.com.  Now when you log on to Stratus, you can switch to LIRealtor.com and access the secure pages of that site without having to log in again.

Same thing when you log in to LIRealtor.com, you can switch to Stratus MLS without having to log in again.

3/21/2011 Listing Photos Increased To 20

Increased listing photos from 12 to 20 on Stratus.

3/9/2011 Stratus Timeout Increased From 30 Minutes To 60 Minutes

Timeout for non-activity on Stratus has been increased from 30 minutes to 60 minutes.

10/20/2010 Open House Start/End Time Now Includes Option for :15 & :45 Hour

When entering the start and end times for open houses, you can now select 1/4 hour or 3/4 hour times such as starting or ending at 8:15 or 8:45. (Before the start and end times were limited to on the hour and half hour).

7/27/2010 FORGOT YOUR PASSWORD Link On Login

There is a new link on the Stratus Login screen, Forgot Your Password.

If you forget your password, click on this link and you will be prompted to enter your User ID. If your User ID is valid, you will receive an email to the email we have on file for you with instructions and a link for resetting your password. The link will remain active for 24 hours.

If your User ID is not valid due to suspension or termination, you will not be able to reset your password. In that case, please email customerservice@mlsli.com or call 631-661-4800 ext. 11.

The Forgot Your Password link is also available on the login screen for lirealtor.com and libor-store.com.

11/9/2009 Stratus Enhancements Installed Monday 11/9

The following enhancements were made on Stratus:

1. For any of your saved CMA?s that are about to expire within the next 15 days, you will now receive a RED Alert at the bottom of Info Center, ?# Expiring CMA?s?. When you click on the link, you can either extend them for another 190 days or delete them.

2. For any of your saved Prospect Matches that are about to expire within the next 15 days, you will now receive a RED Alert at the bottom of Info Center, ?# Expiring Prospects?. When you click on the link, you can either extend them for another 6 months or delete them.

3. For My Personal Listings and Office Inventory, LSC (Last Status Change) has been added to the Active Listing one-line report.

4. When you email a map to a consumer, they can click on a house icon and get a pop-up summary about the property and also link to the consumer report.

5. ?Saltbox? has been added as a choice in Style for Residential and Rental properties.

6. ?Inn? and ?Bed N Breakfast? has been added as a choice in Business Type for Commercial properties.

11/4/2009 New LSC For PBA and BOM Installed

New LSC for Short Sales Now in Effect
To help clarify the status of short sales to both Realtors and the public the changes outlined below are now implemented in Stratus.

The Stratus procedures for listing agents to follow for a short sale property are as follows:

1) Enter "Y" in Short Sale when listing the property or using the Stratus Edit Listing function.

2) Once a contract is signed and is forwarded to the bank for approval you will go th Status Change and select "Short Sale UC/PBA". Enter the date in Short Sale UC Date" and submit. (This is only an option if Short Sale ="Y")

3) After the Status is changed to "Short Sale UC/PBA" the LSC will now automatically become "PBA" which stands for Pending Bank Approval.

4) When LSC = PBA the words "Short Sale Under Contract - Pending Bank Approval" will be automatically included in the Property Description field. This is so the public will know the true status of the listing.

5) The listing will remain as Status = A (available) so it will come up on an available search. Once the bank approves the deal the listing should be put under contract.

6) If the bank does not approve the deal go to Status Change and select Back on Market. Enter the date in "Short Sale CC Date" and submit.

7) The LSC will now be BOM which stands for Back on Market.

When a contract is cancelled you will now select Back on Market in Status Change. Contract Cancelled and the LSC of ?CC? is changing to BOM (Back on Market).

On a listing which is Pending Bank Approval ( LSC = PBA), the listing will expire unless extended. This is different than an Under Contract listing which will not expire while under contract

New LSC (Last Status Change) added

PBA (pending bank approval)

BOM (back on Market)

New Status Change options

Short Sale UC/PBA (under contract/pending bank approval)

Back on Market (replaces contract cancelled)

9/9/2009 Stratus Enhancements Added

The following updates were implemented on Stratus:

1. When adding Contacts, an additional email address has been added.

2. In Office Inventory, when the office is the Selling Broker on a listing (and not also the listing broker), the listing will now appear in their office inventory report in the Under Contracts section. Two new columns have been added to the inventory report, List Broker and Sell Broker, so office can determine the sides their office participated in on the Under Contract.

3. In My Personal Listings, when an agent is the Selling Agent, the listing will now appear in the Personal Listing report in the Under Contract section. Two new columns have been added to the report, List Agent and Sell Agent, so the agent will know which side they participated on the Under Contract.

9/3/2009 Add/Edit Listing Changes - Reports & Searches

1. On Thumbnail and Medium reports, Broker Phone has been replaced with Status/Show phone.

2. New listing fields added:
July-August Rental Amount – added to Rentals
Virtual Tour 1 Desc through Virtual Tour 4 – added to all classes
Gated Property – added to Residential, Condo, Rentals
Doorman – added to Condo, Rentals
Front Exposure – added to Residential, Condo, Rentals

3. The following fields which were on Condo have now also been added to Rentals:
# Floors In Building # Floors In Unit
Unit On Floor # Bylaws Attached
Amenities Auxiliary Rooms
Approx. Interior Sqft Cross Street
Detached/Attached Development
Dining Room Elevator
Garage + Garage Type Model Name
Building New Construction
Tax Unit#

4. Broker & Consumer Open House added to Rental & and Commercial.
Plus Consumer Open House Note expanded to 250 characters.

5. Short Sale select box now includes Unknown, No, Yes.

6. Short Sale and REO are now fields in Quick Search.

8/17/2009 Photo Slideshow Displays Photos With Panaramic Effect

When viewing listings in Stratus, there is a new button labeled, Slideshow, that will display a listing's photo's in a panoramic effect similar to a virtual tour. The button serves 2 purposes:

1. At Search Results, the slideshow displays the primary photo for all the listings in your  search results.

2. When viewing a listing's detail report, the slideshow automatically displays all the photos for that listing.

7/14/2009 Emailing Flyer Includes Link With Office Logo

When Emailing Listings using Flyer report, the link the recipient receives now shows the Office Logo.

6/1/2009 Stratus Enhancements

The following enhancements were made on Stratus MLS.

1. Office Inventory - You can now see your inventory in a Full Results view with all the functionality of Search Results.

2. In Search Results for Listings, Public Records and Contact, the navigation and control buttons now also appear at the top of the screen in addition to the bottom.

3. When Emailing Listings from Stratus, when you select a report format, Include Photo Gallery is now checked to be included with the report you chose.

4. When setting up a prospect, Email Client is now automatically checked.

5. For Rentals, Rental Type choices have changed to be consistent with the seasonal rental field:

a. August changed to August-Labor Day

b. Winter changed to Off Season

c. 2 Weeks has been deleted

6. Email listing is now available in Stratus Unplugged and allows you to email the Consumer Full With Address report to your buyers and sellers. (To access MLS data wireless on Stratus Unplugged, use your wireless device with Internet access and go to: http://unplugged.mlsstratus.com. When User Id and Password are requested, use your Stratus MLS login codes.)

7. For the field, Pool, the choice of Y has been eliminated from Add and Edit Listing. You will be required to enter either – Ag – Ig or N. However, Y remains as a searchable option for Pool for listings previously entered with a Y. When you edit a listing previously entered with a Y, you will be required to re-enter that field with either Ag, Ig or N.

Click here for more detail and samples of the Stratus Enhancements.

5/7/2009 Display Address On Internet Required To Enter Y or N

In Add Listing on the Remarks tab, "Do you want to display the address on the internet" is now a required field.  You now must choose Y (display address on the Internet search sites) or N (do not display address ).

Some statistics to keep in mind when discussing this option with your seller:

80% of buyers begin their search on the internet.

94 % of all listings across the country now display the address on the various real estate search sites.

4/29/2009 Stratus's Charts & Graphs Updated In Market Share

In Stratus MLS, updated charts and graphs to new software in market share reports. 

2/22/2009 LIRealtor.com - New LIBOR Web Site

Changed link on Stratus for Realtors Only to link to LIBOR's new website, lirealtor.com.  Check here for the latest info on news and events, purchase forms and supplies, get the latest legal and governmental affairs information.

2/9/2009 Public Records Geo-Coding For Map Placement Updated

Converted 1.6 million tax records in Nassau, Suffolk, Queens and Brooklyn to Microsoft Virtual Earth geo-coding for more accurate map placement when displaying public record on a map.  (Note: Listings were done June 2008.)

2/5/2009 Expired Listings Can Only Be Edited 24 Hrs After Exp.

Change made to Edit Listing to only only allow listings to be edited for 24 hours after the expiration of the listing.

10/16/2008 My Favorites Updated With More Information

There were many requests to expand My Favorites (on the Info Center) to show more information about the listing than just the ML#. To address this, My Favorites now takes you directly to the Search Results screen which has a one-line summary about each listing.   You can also delete listings from your Favorites from this Search Results screen.

10/6/2008 Set Default Signature For Email Listings

In Customize My Stratus, you can now set your default signature and email message for Stratus to default when you elect to Email Listings from Search Results.
From Info Center, click Customize My Stratus. Then at the bottom at Default Email Listings message body and signature: enter your signature and message.

10/1/2008 New Listing Fields Live In Add/Edit & Output Reports

The following data field changes have been made on Stratus.

1. New field, Green Features (Y/N) added to Res, Con, Ren, Com. If Green Features = Y, Green Features Description prompted to you to list any green features for the property.

2. New field, Horse Property (Y/N) added to Res and Ren.

3. New field, Rental Programs (Y/N) added to Ren. If Rental Programs = Y, Rental Programs Type is prompted for a list of rental programs acceptable to the landlord.

4. New field, Whole House Rental (Y or N) added to Ren.

5. To allow for seasonal rentals, new field, Seasonal Or Year Round Rental added to Rentals.

6. If Seasonal Rental is selected, the following fields are prompted:

a. MemDay-LaborDay Rental Amount

b. June Rental Amount

c. July Rental Amount

d. Aug-LaborDay Rental Amount

e. Weekly Rental Amount

f. Year Round Monthly Rental Amount

g. Off Season Rental Amount

h. Off Season Rental Amount Description

6. Compensation fields, Buyer Agency Compensation, Seller Agency Compensation & Broker Agency Compensation are now numeric only fields.

7. New field, Video URL added to allow you to enter the URL of your listing's video. (Note: If your listing has a Video URL, you'll see a video tab on the full reports when it is viewed in Stratus. From this new tab, the video player opens. If your video provider is not recognized, a link to view the video appears and is viewed in a new window.

8. Data field, Foreclosure has been changed to REO and is now a required field. If REO = “Y” the following will appear following the remarks: “REO properties are exempt from Rule 703.41, but listing Broker must acknowledge that they have received qualified offer.”

9. In Status Change the following fields have been added to Under Contract & Closed:

a. Selling Broker Acted As with choices Sellers Agent, Brokers Agent, Buyers Agent, Dual Agent. Select type of agency relationship Selling Broker worked under.

b. First Time Buyer (Y/N)

10. Both Broker & Consumer Open Houses now require a Start and End Time.

11. Style field has been increased from 12 to 16 characters. Note: Style of Mediterranean is now spelled out. The 2nd "r" was dropped previously.

12. Section/Area now included for Ren, Con, Com, Lan. (Was only in RES.)

13. Development field in Con increased from 16 to 24 characters.

14. Pets field, in Ren now a required field.

15. Model Name field in Con increased from 16 to 24 characters.

10/1/2008 Video Tab Added To Reports To View Videos

For listings containing a Video URL, a new Video tab has been added to full & medium output reports so videos can be viewed from the reports.  Users can now toggle betweent the report and the video tabs.

9/24/2008 CMA Search Limits Expanded To 500 Listings

In CMA when searching for comparable listings, the search maximum has been increased from 250 to 500 listings.

9/18/2008 MLSLI.com Consumer Site Gets Facelift

Implemented new MLSLI.com consumer site with new look and feel on home page, left and top navigation and new logo.

9/18/2008 Include Photo Gallery Report With Full Reports When Emailing Listings.

Photo Gallery report is now an option to add on when emailing listings using the full reports - Broker Full, Consumer Full, Flyer - so a user can send the Consumer Full and automatically attach after it the photo gallery report for that listing.

9/18/2008 Contacts - Search Result Changes & Search/Delete Contacts Added

In Contacts at Search Results now includes new features including:

• Display # records/page
• Mouse over contact and highlights record.
• Changed Search Contacts to Search/Delete so contacts can be deleted directly from Search Results in bulk.
  

9/18/2008 Contacts Can Now Be Edited When Viewing Full Report Detail

Contacts - When viewing detail of a contact in search, enable the contact to be edited.

9/15/2008 Do Not Call Field Added To Bulk Farming Download

Do Not Call flag field has been added to the Bulk Farming Download in Public Records.

7/21/2008 Google Search

Google keyword search feature added to Stratus so users can enter keywords and search across MLS/LIBOR and related real estate web sites for relevant information.

7/10/2008 Mixed Use Added To Rental Style

The choice set for Rental Style now includes Mixed Use.

7/9/2008 

Implemented new Sold Properties Search on MLSLI.com using Virtual Earth maps.  Allows consumers to search MLS sold properties for the past year.  Once Solds are displayed on the map, consumers can opt to also display the Available properties.

7/2/2008 Upload/Download Contacts (Outlook)

In Contacts, you can now Upload your Contact List from Outlook and pre-fill your StratusMLS Contact records with information from your Outlook or Outlook Express address book. Export the address book as a text file in comma separated values format (.CSV), and then upload the file to StratusMLS Contacts.   

7/2/2008 Incl Photo Gallery Report When Emailing Full Reports

As you are aware, last month, a new Photo Gallery report was added to Stratus as a report option when viewing, printing or emailing listings. 

A further piece has now been added that enables you to include the Photo Gallery report when emailing listings using the full reports (Broker Full, Consumer Full, Consumer Full-No Address, Flyer and Flyer-No Address).   When the consumer views the listing, they will get the full report followed by the photo gallery report.

6/8/2008 Listings Geo-Coding Updated For More Accurate Map Placement

Converted listings to Microsoft Virtual Earth geo-coding for more accurate map placement when adding a lisitng.

6/7/2008 Search Maps Points Of Interest Search Added

6/3/2008 Selecting A Listing Report Format

• When viewing listings, you can Select A Report Format from listing detail screen. For example, you can now view listings in Broker Full format and then switch to Thumbnail view without returning to the Search Results.

• In Reports, ML# Search, you have the option to Select Search Results Format prior to submitting the search. This enables you to choose any of your Custom Report one-line formats to view your Search Results.

6/2/2008 Photo Expand To 12 Per Listing + New Photo Gallery Report

1. Upload Photos has been expanded to allow up to 12 photos for each listing.
2. Photo Gallery report has been added displaying listing summary information & all its photos.

6/2/2008 Map Search Changes

The following enhancements have been made to Map Search:

•  From the pop-up when viewing a house on the map, you can now Add To Favorites and view them from the InfoCenter – My Favorites.

•  In Map Search, under More Options for search criteria, # Families has been added as a searchable field.

5/28/2008 MLSLI - Added Map Search & Rental Properties

The following updates have been made to the consumer site, www.mlsli.com.

• MLSLI searches have in Find A Home and Open House Search have a new look and feel.  The search templates have been updated and streamlined for the consumer to use and both the summary and property detail reports have been enhanced.  
• A Map Search has been added to MLSLI.com using Google Maps, enabling consumers to search for listings using interactive maps.  They can Pan, Zoom and View the maps in Road, Aerial or Hybrid views. 
• Rental Properties Search has been added to MLSLI.com giving your listings added exposure. 

Note:  If you want to display the address, check Y in Add/Edit, at the question "Do you want to display the address on the Internet?” in the Remarks/Misc tab. 

5/28/2008 Contacts Enhancements

 In Contacts, the following enhancements were implemented:

• The old Salutation field is now labeled, Title. 
• Title field is included in the download when you download your Contacts.
• Title field has been added as a prefix to labels for both the two-up and three-up labels.
• The limitation of 2,500 has been removed from search results and is now unlimited.
• The limitation of 2,500 has been removed from downloading contacts & is now unlimited.

5/23/2008 Public Record Date Fields Are Now 10 Characters

Public record date fields will now default to 10 characters in columnar reports under Length to enable longer dates to be displayed corrected (i.e.  12/31/2008). 

5/12/2008 Info Center Changes

The following enhancements were made to InfoCenter functions:

• My Calendar can now display Consumer Open Houses along with Broker House Houses. You can set this up in Customize My Stratus by checking “Check here to show Consumer Open House in your Market Areas on your Personal Calendar.”  (Remember to Save your change.)
• News Headlines appearing on the InfoCenter now appear GREEN for 48 Hours After Entry. Older news items will continue to appear in BLUE. 

5/12/2008 MLSLI Listings Now Live On Trulia

All MLS listings are now live on Trulia.com giving more exposure to your listings.

4/23/2008 Edit Existing Map Location For Your Listing

In Add/Edit Listing menu option on Stratus, a new option has been added, "Edit Existing Map Location" where an agent can reposition their listing on the Stratus Maps to its correct location if the automatic geo-coding placement is off. 

3/27/2008 Rental Listings – Change Now in Effect

The compensation published is now the amount paid to the Listing Broker rather than the Renting Broker Compensation.

The Cooperating Broker will be able reach an agreement with its tenant as to the total broker compensation and forward to the Listing Broker their portion as set forth on the publihed listing.

All old rental listings should be edited by the Listing Broker to show the Listing Broker Compensation. Once that field has been updated the MLS staff will delete the amount entered in the old Renting Broker Compensation field (this field will no longer be accessible for edits, but will be displayed).

If the landlord is to pay the compensation an asterisk should be placed after the amount entered in “Listing Broker Compensation” and a notation should be added in the remarks section stating “compensation shown is being paid to Cooperating Broker by the landlord.”

The change to the rental compensation field will also

3/27/2008 ML# Search Resports - Option To Display Search Results Format

For ML# Search in the Reports tab, you have the option to display the search results in any of your customized report formats.

The following data field changes have been made

 

• Short Sale (Y or N) has been added to Res, Con, Land and Com
• The field name Owner Phone # has been changed to Status/Show#
• The Tour URL fields have been increased from 125 to 200 characters
• The Open House Start and End Times are now a drop-down list.

2/28/2008 Stratus Map Search - Now Using Virtual Earth

 Stratus Map Search has been updated to using the Microsoft Virtual Earth.  You can set your default location for searching, pan, view properties in Street, Aerial or Bird's Eye View.

1/18/2008 Suffolk Tax Maps Now Online

Suffolk Tax Maps online through a link on Stratus to First American.

10/5/2007 Listing Worksheet Requires Link To Public Records

Listing from a Worksheet now requires to link to public records.

Instanet Online Forms implemented with access from Stratus MLS

Instanet Online Forms feature enabling agents to fill out the listing using the online forms and then add upload the listing to Stratus MLS as a Worksheet where agent then completes Add Listing – eliminating duplicate data entry.

6/28/2007 Print Labels Directly In Stratus For Your Contacts

Stratus has added the capability to print labels for your Contacts from Search Results. When you click the Labels button, you can select either Avery 5160 (3-across) or Avery 5161 (2-across) label formats. With this new feature, you can elect to replace the contact’s name with a more generic term such as Dear Neighbor.

6/6/2007 ShowingVoice Activated

Activated ShowingVoice for agents to receive voice leads from consumers when requesting showing appointments through ShowingAlert.

Activated the feedback feature in ShowingAssist for showing brokers to provide feedback for showings requested to Listing Brokers through ShowingAssist

6/4/2007 Add Second Salesperson To Your Report Headers

For those agents who work with another Salesperson, in Customize My Stratus, you can select a 2nd Salesperson from the agents in your office to appear on Stratus report headers along with your name. Here’s a sample report header with 2 Salespersons names:

Prepared by John Smith & Harriet Blanco
XYZ Realty Inc.
5/31/2007 4:59:13 PM

5/31/2007 My Favorites

There is a new link on Info Center called, My Favorites, that allows you to save a set of your favorite listings.

• You can save up to twenty-one listings to My Favorites. Listings can be Available or Unavailable.
• Save selected listings from any search results or add listings by ML# at the My Favorites page.
• Delete listings at any time from My Favorites by erasing the ML#.

5/24/2007 Automatic Fines

Info Center contains a new link showing a list of automatic fines which may be imposed by the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island, Inc. Click on the links below for details and possible fine amounts for each infraction. Please note that the fine amounts range from $25 to $250. Failure to comply with the "MLS Request for Paperwork" could lead to a much higher fine. All Brokers and Agents should be familiar with these to avoid being billed for any violations.

Property Description Field
What is not allowed in this field

Inventory Clean Up – Off the Market
How and when listings must be updated when taken off the market

Inventory Clean Up – Under Contract
Listings must be updated immediately once under contract

Owner’s Name Must be Published on Listing

MLS Requests for Paperwork
Must submit Listing Agreements, Extensions, etc. upon request by MLS

Proper Listing Dates
What listing dates to use when relisting a property

5/14/2007 Miscellaneous Stratus Enhancements

1. In Public Records, when viewing a public record from Search Results, the default output report is now the Full With Photo.

2. In Update, when displaying the Update, a Print View button has been added that will allow you to print the update without having to go back to the entry screen.

3. In Search when you are at Search Results and click the Print View button, you are now given the opportunity to also include your Search Criteria on your report.

4. CMA updated as follows:

a. On Client tab, Email Address is now labeled Primary Email and a new field, Secondary Email, has been added
b. On Subject tab, fields, Adult Community, Minimum Age and Waterfront Desc have been added.
c. In Additional Search Criteria tab, Adult Community, Minimum Age and Waterfront Desc have been added.

5/1/2007 Listing Field Changes To Coincide With Agency Disclosure Law

The following were made to go along with the new Agency Disclosure Law to clarify what type of Agency is being offered:

• On Res, Con, Lan and Com Sales there will be now be 3 options for whom to offer compensation to; Seller Agency Compensation, Buyer Agency Compensation and Broker Agency Compensation.
• On Ren and Com Rentals “Agency Offered” has been added. The choices are any combination of Tenants, Brokers and Landlords.

• Wood Floors – new field on Res, Con and Ren
• Minimum Age (when the property is part of an Adult Community) new field on Res, Con and Ren
• CAC# Zones new field on Res, Con and Ren
• Broker Open House now has a start and end date the same as Consumer Open Houses so these may be scheduled two days in a row
• Owner Financing has been added to Res and Con

• Bulkhead, in addition to Res, is now on Con, Ren and Lan
• Docking Rights, in addition to Res, is now on Con, Ren and Lan. The choice set is Deeded, Assoc and N • Beach Rights, in addition to Res, is now on Con, Ren and Lan
• Remarks have been expanded from 275 to 375 characters
• Property Description has been expanded from 275 to 375 characters
• School District is now a required field. Community District 3, 4, 5, etc are the choice set for Queens.
• In Status Change when closing a listing there is a new field “Forced at closing to accept lower or no commission”. If answered “Yes”, “Commission Amount Lost” will be prompted. This information will be only available to staff and will be used to assist in pushing through the Commission Escrow Act

3/12/2007 Public Records Zip Plus 4 Included In Download

The fields, Zip Plus 4 and Mailing Zip Plus 4 have been added to the Download for Public Records. (Zip, Zip 4, Mailing Zip and Mailing Zip 4 are also included in this download.

1/12/2007 Database Field Changes

For Business Type on Commercial, Doctor Office and Dentist Office have been added as choices to the drop down list.

For Style on Residential and Rental, Mediteranean and Exp Cape have been added as choices to the drop down list.

For Waterfront Description on Residential and Rental, River and Prot Wetland have been added as choices to the drop down list.

For those using the MLS BRS Search Engine, you now have the ability to set a price range for visitors searching for listings. For example, if you only deal in affordable housing, you can may want to set a high range maximum. Or if you only deal in million dollar homes, you would limit the low range to 1,000,000 as the start price.

10/2/2006 Suspend Prospect Match Now Available!

For Stratus Prospect Match in Review Prospects or Edit and Delete Prospect, you now receive a Count of your Prospects and have the ability to Suspend a Prospect Match for a time period rather than expire or delete it.

To suspend a prospect: Select the Contacts tab then click Edit or Delete Prospect.
At Prospect to Edit/Delete, select the prospect you want to suspend.
Click Continue. Stratus displays the prospect profile.
At Check to Suspend Prospect, select the check box.
Click Save Prospect.

When you are ready to unsuspend the Prospect Match, just uncheck the Check To Suspend Prospect box. And if it expired, enter a new expiration date in the future,

9/21/2006 Upload Your Agent Photo on Stratus and More:

Using Customize My Stratus from the Info Center, Agents/Offices now have the capability to:

1) If you haven’t submitted it already, upload your agent photo right on Stratus so they appear on CMA’s and Flyers. Note: The preferred photo size is 225x300 and must be in a JPG format. Larger photos will automatically be resized by Stratus.

2) View an entire office roster with a flag signifying if there is a photo for each agent.

3) Add your agent website URL so there is a link from your name to your website. (Since your website appears on www.mlsli.com in Find A Home when consumers view your listings, this is something you want to take advantage of.

7/25/2006 Stratus Changes To Listing Fields:

The following changes have been made to the Stratus system:

• Adult Community (Y or N) has been added to Res, Con and Ren

• Smoking (Y or N) has been added to Con and Ren

• Virtual Tours - You are now able to link your Virtual Tour yourself through Add/Edit by entering the Tour URL. You may now link up to four Virtual Tours to each listing and the length has been expanded from 100 characters to 125 characters

Note: If there are multiple tours attached to a listing, after clicking on the Virtual Tour button a window will open which will have a link to each tour.

• Broker Open House Time field has been expanded to 16 characters.

• In Add/Edit the data field Taxes is now labeled Taxes (without exemption) to clarify that this is to be the total tax amount before exemptions entered in this field. The label remains Taxes on all output forms.

• Zoning, Sewer, Acres and Wooded/Cleared are now required fields on Land listings.

• The following mortgage and finance fields were very infrequently used so were removed to make room for other fields:

Mortgage Balance Equity Interest Rate% Assumable
Fixed Rate Owner Financing Principal, Interest & Taxes Years To Go

The next two changes were made to to clarify that you get paid one amount if you are working as a Sub Agent and the other amount if you are working as a Buyer Agent.

• Selling Broker Comm (SBC) has been changed to Sub Agency Compensation (SAC).

• Buyer Broker Comm (BBC) has been changed to Buyer Agency Compensation (BAC).

7/12/2006 Link In Add/Edit Listing To Order Interactive Photo/Floor Plan

Order Interactive Photo/Floor Plan from Floor Plan Online link has been added at the end of Add/Edit listing for Floor Plan Online.

6/13/2006 Tax Maps Now Available For Queens & Brooklyn

You can now link directly from the public records in Stratus to interactive tax maps for Queens and Brooklyn.

These tax maps, provided by Lot Info, can be accessed from Stratus by either:
1) Clicking on the Tax Map button at the top of the Full Report in Public Records or
2) Click on Queens/Brooklyn Tax Map Search link at the Public Records menu page.

The interactive tax maps offer the following options:
1) Zoom in or out on the map.
2) Identify any property on the map and display full details.
3) Search by address or block and lot.
4) Display all house numbers.
5) Turn on a color coded land use feature.
6) Show subway lines and subway stations.
7) Display all open permits.
8) Much, much more.

For a Lot Info Users Guide click here

6/7/2006 Interface For Ordering Virtual Imaging Slideshows/Photos/Tours

Activated link in Stratus for Add/ Edit Listing to Order Tours/Slideshows/Photos from Virtual Imaging Corp.

Virtual Imaging Corp has recently introduced a cost-effective alternative to a virtual tour – a Virtual Slideshow which starts at $24.95. The slideshows are created from the Photos and listing data you enter into Stratus MLS and include:
• Your MLS listing photos automatically are put into your slideshow from Stratus.
• Images zoom and fade
• You can upload your company banner, agent photo and contact info
• You can print brochures and postcards for your listings
• IDX / MLS compliant link - included
• Your slideshows are posted directly to Stratus and MLSLI.com – and you have the ability to send to other sites

Click here to see a sample Slideshow Tour.

Click here to view detailed instructions on how to order your Slideshow Tour directly from Stratus MLS.

6/5/2006 Free Inman Website Content Made Available

Looking for simple ways to increase Web traffic?
Want to offer visitors to your website good resources?

Integrate Inman’s award-winning real estate consumer news and advice, frequently asked real estate questions and real estate glossary into your own website and build traffic and trust with consumers for your business.

This is a FREE service MLS is offering to ALL MLS Participants and LIBOR Members. To register and obtain instructions to link to your website, click Inman News Content from Stratus Info center. For more information, click here.

To see samples framed within a website, click here.

6/1/2006 Showing Alert Integrated With BRS Search Engine

For those agents/offices who subscribe to MLS’ Broker Reciprocity (IDX) Search Engine and frame it to their web sites, you can now include Showing Alert button from Showing Time to give your site visitors a way to request showing appointments online. All email leads from your site visitors from this are sent directly to you – the BRS subscriber.

5/25/2006 Schedule A Showing Button In Broker Full

Schedule A Showing button now appears embedded in the Broker Full report next to Showing Instructions to try and get more exposure for Showing Time.

5/2/2006 Prospect Match Commercial & Land Changes

In Prospect Match's Daily Match Summary Report, the one-line report has been enhanced for Commercial and Land properties.

For Commercial listing summary report, Square Footage and Sale/Rent data has been added.

For Land listing summary report, Zoning and Lot Dimensions has been added.

Residential, Condo/Coop and Rental reports remain the same as they were.

5/2/2006 Co-Selling Agent Can Now Be Selected From The Firm

When entering an Under Contract or Closing and there is a Co-Selling Agent, you can now select a co-selling agent from the entire FIRM. (Previously you could only select from the office.)

4/17/2006 New Public Records Implemented

Stratus MLS has been upgraded with new Public Record data. Many new data fields have been added as well as some existing data names having been changed to make them easier to locate when searching or creating Custom Reports. For example, Town and Street Name are now Property Town and Property Street Name.

Some of the data enhancements are the addition of Subdivision Name, School District Name and 2nd Mortgages. Please Click Here for a list of data field changes and additions.

Some of the other enhancements to the Public Records are as follows:

1) Brooklyn/Kings County records are now included.
2) Updated assessment records with up to date taxes (current through last year, this years coming late spring)
3) More up to date deeds, mortgages and lis pendens with weekly updates.
4) You will now be able to search by District, Section, Block and Lot more easily because the leading zeroes are being stripped out. (i.e. Block 00089 will appear as Block 89)
5) A new field “Do Not Call” has been added to flag those PH#’s on the Do Not Call list. ***

Click Here for the complete public Records Data Dictionary.

2/24/2006 Prospect Match - Changes were made to the report sent in daily email for:

1.For Commercial/Industrial:

a. Under Style column, Property Type appears.
b. Under BR column, SF appears which is the label for Square Footage.
c. Under Baths Column, the actual sqft apears.

a. Under Style column, Land appears.
b. Under BR column, label Zn appears.
c. Under Baths column, value for Zone appears. (i.e. Res)

12/8/2005 When emailing listings to consumers from Stratus from the Search Results screen, the Properties of Interest emails have been enhanced as follows:

1) Email is now sent from a generic email: properties@mlslirealtor.com

2) The Reply To now goes to your preferred email on record with LIBOR/MLS. (It used to go to your @mlslirealtor.com email and you had to forward them to your preferred email, which is no longer necessary.)

3) An opt out link has been added to help agents comply with the CAN SPAM regulation requiring a way for the recipient to opt out of these types of emails

11/22/2005 The following enhancements were implemented over the two last months:

1) CMA: You can now Email Your CMA reports as a PDF to your customers. To do this, open your CMA & from the Presentation tab, click Email CMA.

2) Financials – On the Financial tab in Stratus, there are new links to 17 Financial Calculators and they are available in both English & Spanish.

3) For Nassau County Public Records, you can now link directly from the public record Full Report (with or without Photo) to:

• Building Footprints of the property
• My Nassau Property Assessment record where you can view Property Characteristics, Market Values, Comparable Sales and up to date School and General Taxes. You can also click on the link in My Nassau Property for, View Area Maps for a Satellite Image of the property.
• Actual Tax Map where you zoom directly to that parcel.

• All prospect match emails are now sent from a generic email, Prospects@mlslirealtor.com.
• But the Reply To: on the email is now your Preferred Email address MLS has on file for you. (This used to be your@mlslirealtor.com email address.)
•There is now an Unsubscribe link that the recipient can click to request that you discontinue sending them the daily Prospect Match emails. This will enable you to stay in compliance with the Federal CAN SPAM Act - requiring all email recipients a way to opt out. Be sure when you receive these requests, you remove your customer from the automatic emails Prospect Match sends out.

8/2/2005 Client Reports Name Changed To Consumer

Stratus MLS listing reports previously named Client Full, Client Full No Address, Client Medium and Client Thumbnail have been renamed to Consumer Full, Consumer Full No Address, Consumer Medium and Consumer Thumbnail.

8/2/2005 Listings Now Link To Sperling Schools By School Dist Name

When viewing a listing in Stratus, when a user clicks on Sperling's School Profiles, a change has been made. Now when there is a School District Name stored in the lisitng, instead of viewing the school information based on zip code, Sperling will be providing school information for the School District specifically for that listing. This is true for Nassau and Suffolk County listings.

The link remains the same by zip code for properties with no school district and for properties in Queens and Brooklyn

7/1/2005 Comparison - No Address New Report Added In Search Results

At your request, we have added a second Comparison report from Search Results – Comparison No Address. For the side by side comparison report available when you search listings, you now have a choice of either:

Comparison (this includes the address) or

Comparison - No Address

These new reports enable you to search for listings and then select those you want to compare side by side - without running a complete CMA.

6/24/2005 Neighborhood & School Profiles Now On Stratus

When you view a listing on Stratus, there are two new buttons.

1. Neighborhood Info - Gives you demographic profiles for the listing's zip code including: Neighborhood type, population, households, income, crime, housing, education, economy, health, climate and more.

2. School Profiles - Includes the following: Grade levels, # of Students, # Teachers, Pupil/teacher ratio, Expenditure per pupil, # Students in each grade, District Resources, more. You can view schools in the zip code for that listing as well as any school in the district.

5/31/2005 Stratus Unplugged - Access MLS On Your PDA Now Free!

Stratus Unplugged brings you info wirelessly on MLS listings. New version works cross platforms on newer Palm based devices and Pocket PC. Access Stratus wirelessly through your Internet Service Provider or via a WIFI connection. Stratus Unplugged is now FREE with no setup or monthly fees! Its functionality Includes MLS Listing searches, Updates, Prospect Match, Search Public Records, Offices and agents. If your PDA has a web browser and can access the Internet, test it by launching your web browser and going to URL: http://unplugged.mlsstratus.com/ For more information on Stratus Unplugged, click here. For a list of compatible devices with Stratus Unplugged, click here

5/26/2005 Stratus Enhancements Including Consumer Open Houses

The following enhancements have been implemented on Stratus MLS Wednesday, 5/25, evening:
1. Search Listings:

a. Side By Side Comparison Report has been added to Report Formats from Search Results. This new report enables you to search for listings and then select those you want to compare side by side - without running a complete CMA.

b. From Search Results, when you elect to email listings, you now have the ability to Email Any Public Report format.

a. The photo resolution we are storing for new photos from 320x240 to 480x360.

b. For those photos taken by the MLS Photographer (not uploaded by you) will now have sharpening process done for better quality images.

c. When viewing the 9-up photos, you can click on the photo to enlarge it.

a. In Add/Edit Listing in Stratus, there is a new tab for Residential and Condo/Coop listings for entering Open Houses.

b. In addition to scheduling Broker Open Houses, you can now schedule Consumer Open Houses.

c. Consumers search for your scheduled Consumer Open Houses on www.mlsli.com where a new search has been added, Open House Search.

d. Address will display – From the time to schedule a consumer open house until it has passed, your listing’s address will display for the consumers on www.mlsli.com. Once the Open House Date has passed, the address will be suppressed if you have entered N in Display Address On Internet. If you have entered Y, your address will continue to display for the consumer.

e. Consumer Open House report has been added to Report Formats from Search Results.

a. Contacts:

· Email address added to one-liner and now included when you download your contacts.

· You can now search your contacts and find up to 2,500. (Previously you were restricted to 100 on the Search Results.

b. The field, Ad Text, has been changed to Property Description with rules appearing on the screen in Add/Edit Listing. "Description of subject property only. May not include name, PH#, reference to listing agent or office, or status of property, etc."

c. Tour URL field has been expanded to 100 characters to accommodate longer URL’s.

d. Prospect Match now only sends matches on new listings and price changes.

e. Public Records now includes ability from Search Results to Revise Criteria.

f. CMA’s – When using an existing CMA, the one line entry screen shows the number of days until the CMA expires.

g. In My Personal Listings, we have added the listings you are the Co-Listing Agent. Now your listing that you are the Listing Agent and the Co-Listing Agent will appear.

5/6/2005 Prospect Matches Only On New & Price Changes Listings!

A change has been made to Prospect Match that will only find prospect matches for new available listings and listings with Price Changes. You and your Customer/Clients will no longer receive prospect matches each time an edit is done on a listing.

Also as part of this change Prospect Match will no longer find unavailable listings. When you set-up a new Prospect Match in the future, you will no longer have the option of selecting Unavailable listings - only Available. Existing prospect matches that include unavailable search criteria, will no longer find unavailable listings but WILL find new and price change listings. There is no need for you to edit existing propsect matches that include Unavailable search criteria

1/14/2005 Closed Listings Now Retained For 25 Months

Effective January 9, Closed listings will no longer be move to the Archived database on Stratus after 18 months. Instead, they will remain in the Unavailable database on Stratus for 25 months. At the end of that time, they will be moved to the Archives.

Since our current Unavailable database, only contains 18 months worth of Closed listings, it will take another 7 months until the Closed listings grow to 25 months. After that time, one advantage of this change will be be able that you can compare the current 12 months Closed to the prior 12 months.

11/9/2004 CMA Includes Ability To Include Private Sales

The CMA has been enhanced on Stratus and now includes the ability for you to include privates sales – not just those sold on MLS – in your CMA. You can not only use MLS Listings for your comparables but also add Public Records sales.

You can add public records at the Search Criteria tab at the new question, "Do you want to include Public Records in your CMA?" If you include public records, the sale price and date range you selected for listings are defaulted as your public records criteria. If you wish to include additional public record critera, click Edit/Enter Public Records.

When you include public records in your CMA, the search results will display two separate tabs – one for Listings and one for Public Records. You need to select your comparable properties from both tabs.

Note: Public Records have limited property characteristics. For the CMA, you can update the public record via Edits & Adjustments to add information about the Style, Rooms, BR, Bath, etc.

10/14/2004 View Your Preferred Email Address On Stratus

New function in Customize My Stratus where the agent can view their Preferred Email address and change it if not correct. Then the change is emailed to libormem@mlsli.com

7/26/2004 Showing Assist activated for all on Stratus

Showing Assist provides the capability for showing agents to request appointment showings electronically via email with listing agents directly from Stratus. Listing offices can setup showing schedules detailing when a listing can be shown through a new feature in Stratus’ Add/Edit called, Configure/Modify ShowingTime. This can also be done at the conclusion of Add or Edit Listing.

Initially, all listings are “turned off” for Showing Assist and you will have to go in to Configure/Modify ShowingTime to set it up. Showing Assist can be configured as follows:

• A single listing can be turned on via the Listing Setup tab.
• All listings for individual agents can be turned on via the Agent Setup tab.
• All listings in an office can be turned on via the Office Setup tab.
• All listings in an office can be turned on but selected listings can still be turned off via the Listing Setup tab.

6/3/2004 Stratus Unplugged - Wirelessly Access Stratus

Stratus Unplugged brings you info wirelessly on MLS listings, new prospect matches, the latest market updates, public records and more.

The new version works cross platforms on newer Palm based devices & Pocket PC. Access Stratus wirelessly thru the Internet or WIFI connection. Listings now includes photo & displays in color (if your handheld is in color).

If you can access the Internet on your wireless device, go to URL: http://unplugged.mlsstratus.com/. You can subscribe to Stratus Unplugged for $49.95 set-up fee and $14.95 per month. Click here for more info & how to subscribe once trial ends.

Release of the new Stratus Unplugged wireless product for newer PDA's - with color and listing photo.

6/3/2004 ADI - Showing Time Automatic Data Import

ADI Showing Time Automatic Data Import was developed for Showing Desk users so those subscribing offices no longer have to duplicate their data entry - in Stratus and then in Showing Desk. Now the data is periodically imported automatically from Stratus by the office.

6/2/2004 Print Labels Directly In Stratus For Public Records

Users now have the ability to print labels directly from Stratus in Public Records - 2 or 3 across.

6/2/2004 Locate Surrounding Properties In Public Records

Use the Locate Surrounding Properties feature at a public record for farming or to prepare your "Just Listed" and "Just Sold" mailings. The steps to do this are:

• Use a Public Records search to locate the property that you just listed or sold. (See Searching Public Records.)
• When viewing the public record(not the thumbnail format), elect to Locate Surrounding Properties.
• Choose the radius for your search from 1/8 of a mile up to 4 miles and specify if non-owner occupied properties should be included.

3/25/2004 Consumer Site Enhancements

On www.mlsli.com, enabled the consumer to search by a school district name. Now they can select either a Town or School District or both. Also added search capbility for Cul-De-Sac and Handicap Accessible.

1/16/2004 Stratus Passwords Required To Be Changed Periodically

All Stratus users are now be required to change their passwords every 90 days. They are given a warning 3 days before the expiration date – at the 87th date

1/6/2004 Listing Field Changes On Stratus Add/Edit

Effective Wed evening (1/7/04), the following changes will be made on Stratus.

1. The field, Condition, has been re-named Appearance.

2. The field, Square Footage, has been re-named Approx Int Square Footage.

3. For Rentals, Carpet is now a searchable field in Flex Search.

4. For Residential listings, you will be asked a new question at the end of Add/Edit Listing, “Do you plan to upload your own photo?” This is a required field.

Note: If you answer Y, MLS will not send the photographer to take a photo of your listing. If you respond N, MLS will send the photographer to take the photo. However, if you respond Y and have not uploaded a photo within 7 days of adding the listing, MLS will send the photographer to take the photo of your listing.

5. In Add/Edit for all classes, you will be asked a new question; "Do you want to display the address on the Internet?" This is a required field with a default value already entered of “N”. If you wish to display the address of your listing for consumers to see on www.mlsli.com, enter a “Y” for this question. If you respond with an “N”, the address of your listing will not show when consumers view your listing on www.mlsli.com.

6. A new field has been added to Residential and Condo listings called, New Construction. This field is required with a Y/N response needed.

1/6/2004 Nassau County Photos Available On Public Records

Two enhancements have been made on Stratus:

We have linked over 400,000 photos supplied to us from the Nassau County Assessor’s Office to their respective public record. You will note that these photos are not as high quality as the MLS listing photos, but still provide you with a good view of the property. When you view the public record, the report, Full With Photo, will now be the default report and will include those photos.

Previously, for Nassau, Suffolk and Queens, we linked over 160,000 archived multiple listing photos to their respective public record. If there is an ML# with a photo linked to the public record, that ML#'s photo appears on the public record instead of the Nassau County Assessor photo. Additionally, any multiple photos for that listing will be viewable in the public record.

Note: Only approximately 70% of multiple listings are linked to its public record. If you are not doing so, when you add a new listing, be sure to link it to the public record, so both the listing property characteristics and the photo(s) can be viewed on the public record.

6/26/2003 Training Mode Available & Open House Detail In Calendar

Two enhancements have been made on Stratus:

1. Training Mode Available
In Customize My Stratus, there is a new check box, for Training Mode. If you check this, you can make changes in Add/Edit to a listing and it will not save to the listing. It is a great tool for those office managers who want to teach agents in their office how to add or edit a listing. With this enhancement, you can now get through the task of Adding or Editing a Listing from start to finish without affecting the database.

If you have selected Training Mode, a red notation, "TRAINING MODE" appears in the upper left hand corner under the Stratus logo.

Note: Checking the TRANING MODE box, only applies to the current session. If you want to use training mode in subsequent sessions, you must sest it each time you log in in Customize My Stratus.

2.Open House Detail In Calendar
In Customize My Stratus, if you elected to show Open Houses in your market Area on your Personal Calendar, now when Open Houses are displayed on the Calendar, two changes have been made:

a. Past open houses won't appear.

b. There will be information identifying the Open House on the Calendar. ML#, Address, Town. (It used to just says Open House and you had no way to know which listing the Open House related to.

5/21/2003 See Thumbnails In Search Results

New features in Stratus added that allows you to view thumbnail photos of the listings from the search results. To set this up, click "Customize My Stratus" from the Info Center. Scroll down to the section for Thumbnails and check the box "Show thumbnails with search results" as shown below.

Thumbnails:

4/14/2003 Converting Private To Public Listings - Now Photos Convert Too!

An enhancement has been made on Stratus so now when you convert a private listing to a public ML#, the existing photos for that private listing are now automatically attached to the new public ML#. You no longer have to re-upload your photos

4/10/2003 Public Record Report With ML# Photo Linked To It

In Public Records, a new full record report, Full W/Photo, has been created that includes the public record data plus the photo (and multiple photos, if any) of the ML# linked to it. The old report without the photo, called Full, remains as a report option if you want to view/print the public record without the photo. But the new report with the photo is the default one when you browse public records.

Keep in mind that there are approx. 1.4 million public records and currently the listing photos only go back to 1999 so many of the public records will not have photos. But it is a start and as the time goes on more public records will have the photos.

4/8/2003 Select Co-List Agent From All Branches In Add Listing

Add Listing has been modified so now when adding a lisitng, you can select a Co Listing Agent, if any, from all your office as well as any of your branch offices

3/24/2003 CMA’s Now Purged After 6 Months Inactivity.

Stratus CMA’s will now be purged if they have not been added or edited within the past six months. Check your CMAs and be sure that for each one you wish to retain, the edit date is less than six months old. If there are any older than six months that you wish to retain, go into your existing CMA and just Save it again. Your edit date will be updated to today’s date and that CMA won’t get purged.

3/17/2003 New Stratus Look – Not Equal To Searching – More…

1. In Flex search, “Not Equal To” searching has been implemented. You can now search for Style “not equal to” Cape by checking the “Not” box and then selecting Cape. The search will find all Styles but Capes.
2. In listing searches when you view a listing, you now have the option to View History. History now also contains the photos.
3. If you are the listing broker for the listing, when you view it in search, you can click Edit Listing to go directly to edit that listing.
4. From Search Results, you can now click anywhere on the listing to view the full detail.
5. There is a new option in Customize My Stratus that enables you to Display Thumbnails in Search Results.
6. Street Maps have been updated and now include information on properties overlapping on the map and a more definable square around the property icon.
7. The Public Records tab now contains a link, CASS Forms For Bulk Mailing which enable you to print the Forms for the Post Office.
8. Info Center has been re-arranged and the buttons throughout Stratus are now in light grey and highlighted when selected.
9. New links on the Info Center include Current Tip, Tip Archives, Enhancement Archives and MLS Activity Reports.

For complete detail on the above enhancements, Click Here.

3/5/2003 Old MLS Listings Available On Stratus

Over 600,000 old listings that MLS had archived on tape dating back to 1991 have been loaded on Stratus. Included are old Expireds, Closings, Under Contracts (that never sold), Renteds and Withdrawn/Released. These listings are searchable in Stratus by selecting Quick Search for Unavailables and checking the box to include Archives.

Keep in mind that when you search the archives on Stratus you can only search one Town at a time. The old archives have also been linked to the public record, wherever a match was found, enabling you to get a better sales history of the property with the old MLS listing information shown.

3/3/2003 Stratus Search Results Download Includes Yr Built

From the Search Results, when you select Download to download all the database fields, the obsolete field, Age has now been replaced with the Year Built field.

1/9/2003 Email Link Includes Multiple Photos

Search Listing Emails and Prospect Match Emails on Stratus now include the multiple photos. When you email listings to consumers, the link now includes the arrows for them to to view the multiple photos.

12/20/2002 MLSLIrealtor.com Now Includes Ad Text

In www.mlslirealtor.com for the consumers, new fields were added to the listing displays in Find A Home including Ad Text and Co-List Agent's name and email address. The listing reports the consumers see now also show full and half baths, school district name (no longer #), village taxes, handicap access, waterfront description and tennis court.

11/21/2002 Pay Your LIBOR/MLS Bills Online

You have just received your 2003 LIBOR dues bills in the mail. LIBOR and MLS now offer Internet Member Services at http://ims.mlslirealtor.com. This is a convenient way for you to to access your membership account and pay your LIBOR dues and MLS bills securely online. In addition, you can make a contribution to RPAC or view/modify your personal membership information. From the Stratus Info Center, click "Pay LIBOR/MLS Bill Here" to access your account. Read and agree to the "TERMS OF USE FOR REALTORS ELECTRONIC NETWORK". When prompted to log in, at Logon ID, enter your LIBOR Member #. At Password, enter your IMS Password (must be lowercase). Unless you change it, your IMS password is the same as your Stratus password.

11/21/2002 New Stratus Enhancements

Counts, Revise Search Criteria, Upload CMA Subject Property, Archives Listings, new listing fields, Print Broker Full after adding a listing, and more. Click here for complete details on these and all the enhancements.

9/23/2002 Display MLS Listings On Your Website – Broker Reciprocity

Through Broker Reciprocity (BRS), MLS Participants give each other permission to display their MLS listings on each other’s web site. Keep consumers coming to your web site for the latest MLS listings by subscribing to either the BRS Search engine or receiving a daily data feed. Click here for more info.

8/22/2002 Market Share Charts & Graphs

When in Stratus’ Market Share, if your Charts and Graphs are not displaying correctly, you need reinstall the Charting Software. To do this click here and follow the steps outlined.

8/20/2002 Consumer Leads Coming Your Way

More leads will be coming your way as a result of the new link on the consumer site, www.mlslirealtor.com. Now when your listing is viewed, the consumer can click, Request A Showing Of This Property. You will receive an email from them requesting more information about your property found on MLSLIREALTOR.com®. You will be given the MLS# and a link to view the property they are referring to. The consumer site receives over 5,800 unique visitors a day and over 17,000 sessions per day so you are bound to get some interest in your properties. To keep these valuable leads, remember to always answer your emails promptly.

Also, make sure LIBOR has your correct email address on file. To do this, from the Info Center, click Search Member. Search for yourself by your last and first name. When your member information is displayed, make sure your email address is correct. If not, please send us your correct email address to LIBOR at libormem@mlslirealtor.com.

7/5/2002 Stratus Build-It Yourself Web Sites

Are you in need of a new web site for yourself or your office? Stratus now offers Agent Office Web Page Builder where you can build your own web site. Features include 8 customizable web pages, a mortgage calculator, your listing inventory (running in real time from Stratus), an information request form to generate leads and much more. Add your picture, office logo Choose your own fonts, colors and templates to make your site unique. The good thing is you can try it for free before you buy it Create your site on Stratus and only when you are satisfield with it, purchase and publish it for consumers to visit. To try it, click on the Info Center link, Agent/Office Web Page Builder. For pricing information, click here.

6/4/2002 Private Listings Photo Upload Available

In addition to uploading photos for your multiple listings, Stratus now includes the capability to upload your own photos for your private listings. You can upload a primary photo and up to eight additional scenes.

To upload your own photos on Stratus, from the Add/Edit tab, select Upload Photos. This can be done at any time once your private listing has been entered and you have an ML#.

When a listing is displayed in a Search, the primary photo appears. This is also the photo that prints on the different reports, such as Broker Full, Client Full, etc. To view the additional scenes, click on the small back and forward arrows below the Primary photo. Currently, if you convert your private listing to a multiple listing, you will need to re-upload your photos. For complete guidelines to uploading your own photos, click here.

4/2/2002 LIBOR/MLS Online Store – Now Available

You will notice when you sign on to Stratus' Info Center, the new REALTOR Internet Store button. Click on this button to:

1. Order online your MLS/LIBOR Forms and Suppliesincluding Agency Disclosure forms, Purchase Offer Contracts, Listing Agreements, Binder Pads and Envelopes, MLS Signs and more.

2. Shop at LIBOR's new online Internet Board Store offering the largest selection of real estate marketing tools & supplies offered anywhere in the world including REALTOR Logo items, Business Card Magnets, Literature Displays, Calculators, Open House Tools, Signs, Videos, Real Estate Theme Clothing & Jewelry, Doorhangers, Client Cards, Books, Advertising Specialty Products/Items and much, much more.

3. Learn all about Supra Electronic Key Boxes. Download the Supra KeyBox Lease Agreement and find out about the Electronic KeyBox program including details of the KeyBox service, signing, transferring and terminating your KeyBox service.

To take advantage of these new services, click on the REALTOR Internet Store button from the Stratus Info Center screen. Or to visit LIBOR's Internet Board store directly, go to www.libor-store.com.