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Cloud Agent Suite: Free until Feb. 2021

Amplify your Member Benefits!

As part of your Contra Costa Association of REALTORS® member benefits, you already get free access to the award winning Cloud Agent Suite tools – Cloud CMA, Cloud Streams, and Cloud MLX.

But to make sure you close out your year with a bang, the Cloud Agent Suite team has given all CCAR members an even better deal.

From October 26th up until February 2021, that’s right FEBRUARY 2021 – you can try the rest of the Cloud Agent Suite completely FREE!

Whether you want to add more contacts to your CRM, stand out from the competition with an interactive listing presentation, give your clients a fair shot in this competitive market with listing alerts sent via text, or search the MLS like you search Google, the Cloud Agent Suite can help.

Win more listings. Generate more leads. Create your free account today to get the most out of this offer.

Click here to get the Suite for FREE!

Help Educate Clients About the Value of the MLS

Consumers don’t understand the MLS

Research shows that only 24% of consumers have even a vague idea of what the MLS is, let alone how it benefits them. But as an industry, we rely on the MLS every day. It’s how we monitor what’s happening across the market, how we cooperate to get sales done, how we offer compensation. We know the value of the MLS, even if we take it for granted.

Help educate your clients

We need to educate consumers about how the MLS benefits them, and now there’s a new resource at your fingertips to do just that! CMLS has created a consumer marketing campaign to help you tell the MLS story in a way that enhances your value as a broker, agent or an MLS leader. Click here to access a variety of campaign materials that will help you help consumers understand the value of the MLS.

www.cmlsintheknow.org

Give to Bay Area Rescue Mission

Your Holiday Donations will Help Local Families in Need

For over 25 years, your generous Christmas contributions have made a meaningful impact on local families through the Christmas CanTree Event and the Bay Area Rescue Mission. Regrettably, despite our best efforts, the Christmas CanTree had to be canceled this year due to ticket sales not meeting the anticipated levels necessary to host the event successfully.

Instead, we invite you to make a donation directly to the Bay Area Rescue Mission to support their tireless work to provide shelter, food, and support to individuals facing homelessness and hunger in our community. Please don’t forget to include the Bay Area Rescue Mission on your Christmas gift list.

Request a receipt (BARM Tax ID# 94-6124054).

Floor Plans Subject to Copyright + Ad Restrictions

Legal alert

Floorplans posted with MLS listings are subject to copyright restrictions and truth in advertising guidelines

Adding floorplans to listing data has become popular among MLS Participants and Subscribers. But before you post, make sure they are accurate and that you get adequate permissions to copy and publish.

Just as there are copyright restrictions limiting use of photos in the MLS, so too are there similar legal and ethical ramifications for posting floorplans. Best Rule of Thumb:

– Be sure to get permission to use floorplan images from architects/image copyright owners.

– Be sure the floorplans reflect a current and accurate representation of actual property, dimensions and layout.

For virtual floorplans, also be sure to include a legend (notation of square footage/

measurement source) and precision disclaimer similar to the following:

“Disclaimer: This image is a computer generated rendering based on square footage as reported via_____________ (preferably a third-party source such as public records). As such, this floorplan may not completely and accurately depict the true measurements and scale of the property and neither seller nor listing broker has/will investigate or verify the accuracy of the measurements nor the relative scale of space rendered. If exact acreage or square footage is required the property should be measured by an independent third-party.”