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1 Northeastern Indiana Association of Realtors In In this issue: 521 Professional Way, Kendallville, IN In the Know. March 12, 2018 Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. M A R K Y O U R C A L E N D A R S March 13 Affiliate meeting, 11 AM March 15 Lunch n Learn, 11 am 1 pm. CANCELLED. Come out and support Trivia Night instead! March 15 Affiliate-sponsored Trivia Night for charity, Kendallville Eagles, doors open at 6 pm, dinner at 6:30, games start at 7 pm. Flyer on page 7 March 20 Live-streaming with Brian Buffini, 8:30 am 12:30. Flyer on page 8 March 21 Paragon training, 1-4 pm. See next page for details. March 23 to 30 AEI and vacation; Board office closed. MLS usage invoices will not be ed to principal brokers until April 2. No newsletter March 26. April 10 Affiliate meeting, 11 AM April 12 BOD meeting, 9 AM ~~~~ Seneca April 19 RPAC event, 11 am 1 pm. The Woods Too, 6500 S 1170E, Hudson Like us on Facebook at Northeastern IN Association of Realtors!! 2018 EXECUTIVE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ryan Jernigan, President 326auctions@gmail.com Mike Patka, President-Elect imbidone@yahoo.com Jessica Pineiro, Past-President jpineiro@cbrwg.com Daniel Orlando, Secretary daniel@danielorlando.com Mark Hansbarger, Treasurer mark@hansbarger.com 2018 Board of Directors Trent Curtis Kay Kunce Mark Pontecorvo Angel Baczynski Erica Amans Kelly Grimes Dawn Miller n i a o r m c h s i. c o m

2 MEMBER NEWS Welcome to Christina Friddle with Hosler Realty! The Board of Directors regretfully accepted the resignation of Andy Treesh as President-Elect and appointed Mike Patka to fulfill the remaining 2018 term as President-Elect. We are accepting items for the RPAC silent / live auctions to take place at the RPAC event on April 19.Your trash may be someone else s treasure. Individual as well as company donations appreciated! Contact one of the RPAC committee members (Khelley Adams, Cyndi Andrew, Kelly Grimes, Shala Hoover, Dawn Miller, Jessica Pineiro, or Ashley Skinner) or the board office to arrange for your donation to be delivered to the event. PARAGON TRAINING March 21, 1:00-4:00 pm. Denise will begin with basic Paragon for any new members or anyone wishing a refresher course. If you d like one-on-one training with her, please contact the board office to schedule your individualized training segment. Anyone who has set through one of Denise s classes will tell you that even though you think you know Paragon, Denise has helpful hints and tricks that can be beneficial! Training will be cancelled if there is not enough interest. Paragon 5.63 Deployment Downtime Notification Tuesday, March 13, :00pm-6:00am Central Time Updates to Paragon, including new features and functionality will now be applied to your MLS System via a downtime deployment on Tuesday, March 13, 2018 beginning at 10:00pm and concluding no later than 6:00am Central Time on Wednesday, March 14, During this time the Paragon MLS system will be unavailable for access. Also note, this means all Data Share, Parallel, and Membership Import tasks/processes will be disabled and reenabled at the conclusion of the downtime event, resulting in delayed data import/export availability. Hello Google Maps! Introduced with the Paragon 5.63 Release We are excited to announce that Google replaces Bing in Paragon and Collaboration Center with v5.63! Not only will Paragon Users and their Clients enjoy the benefits of more up-to-date maps, but as an added bonus, the Google Street View is included as a standard mapping feature. For more information, access to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and more, BK MLS created a dedicated website to showcase the powerful Google Mapping updates in Paragon and Collaboration Center.

3 The Upstate Alliance of REALTORS is offering our members the opportunity to attend their FREE training on RPR vs Realist. If you wish to attend, you will need to CALL them at to get the FREE training. Both systems are one-stop shops for all property information including Tax Data, School Information, Census Data, Mortgage Information, Demographics, Foreclosures, Mapping, Distressed Data, Flood Zones, Historic Data and Reports. Come and learn the differences between the two programs and how to leverage their power to enhance your business. Diamond Affiliate Member Diamond Affiliate Member IRMLS Change Requests to Water Related fields Black Knight has confirmed the water field changes will be added to the system on Tuesday, March 20 th and will be available to users by Wed. March 21 st. The changes and the new fields values are shown below. The new field rule will require users to enter Lake Type if Water Type = Lake. Residential/Investment/Lots & Land/Commercial/Resi-Lease/Farms & Ranch Class FIELD Changes Apply to: Water Type Look Up table Water Access Look Up Table Water Name Look Up Table Channel Frontage Float Range field Water Frontage Float Range field Waterfront Y/N Look Up field Water Features Feature Field Water Type Look Up Field Add New Value Other > map data from current value Spring to Other Remove Spring Creek Lake

4 None Pond River Other (New) Water Access Look Up Field Assoc Add Assoc value to Water Features Field map data from Water Access-Assoc to Water Features>Assoc > remove Assoc value from Water Access table Bayfront Boat Lot Add Boat Lot value to Water Features field>map data from Water Access>Boat Lot to Water Features>Boat Lot remove Boat Lot value from Water Access Channel Front/Canal Deeded Add Deeded value to Water Features Field> map data from Water Access-Deeded to Water Features>Deeded> remove Deeded: value from Water Access table Easement Frontage Lot Gated Lakefront - Add Gated Lakefront value to Water Features field>map data from Water Access-Gated Lakefront to Water Features-Gated Lakefront>remove Gated lakefront value from Water Access table Lake Front None Recorded - Add Recorded value to Water Features Field> map data from Water Access-Recorded to Water Features- Recorded> remove Recorded value from Water Access table Riverfront Waterfront - map date from Water Access-Waterfront value to Waterfront=Y>eliminate Waterfront value from Water Access Table Channel Frontage Change field name from Channel Frontage to Channel/Canal Frontage >Change field to optional Lake Type Change from Feature field to Look Up field to make searching easier *Add field rule to make Lake Type required when Water Type = Lake Access to Ski Lake Ski Lake Other Non Ski Lake LAKE TYPE is currently a feature category, listings may have no value selected, four values, or something in between. Please use the following schema to map the data from the feature category to the lookup field: 1. Keep Ski Lake if present, and drop any other values. 2. If 1 does not apply, keep Access to Ski Lake if present, and drop any other values. 3. If 1-2 do not apply, keep Non Ski Lake if present, and drop any other values. 4. If 1-3 do not apply, keep Other if present (meaning Other was the only value). 5. If 1-4 do not apply (meaning no values were selected), keep Lake Type field blank.

5 FIELDS AFTER CHANGES Water Features (Feature Field multiple values) Boat Docking Rights Boat Lot Pier/Dock Pier/Dock Available Private Beach Public Beach Walk to Lake Access None Access to Ski Lake Association Boat Lot Deeded Gated Lakefront Recorded Lake Type WATER TYPE (Look Up field one value only) Creek Lake None Pond River Channel/Canal Frontage- Y/N Water Access (Look Up one value) Bayfront Channel Front/Canal Easement Frontage Lot Lake Front None Riverfront Lake Type (Look Up field- one value) Access To Ski Lake Ski Lake Other Non Ski Lake REALTOR Party Mobile Alerts are a great way to stay in the know on the go. Get Call for Action notices and other important information while you are away from your desk. Subscribing is easy. Simply text the word REALTOR to on your mobile phone. If you haven t signed up, do so today! Join the REALTOR Party Online Are you posting, liking, tweeting or pinning? So is the REALTOR Party. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and YouTube to get the latest news, information and resources.

6 Collab Center Mobile Accessing Listing Categories Clients can organize new matches into several categories (undecided, favorite, possible and rejected). To access these categories on your mobile device, complete the following steps: Click on the icon that contains the downward arrow. Click on the Filter By option below and then select the category from the list. Click done.

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8 The broadcast will be live-streamed from Richmond to our board office. To attend, call Jennifer Fuller, Wells Fargo, at This event is no cost to members.

9 Why should I invest in RPAC? RPAC is the muscle behind NAR. RPAC represents more than 1.3 million REALTORS that members of Congress want as their friends. Recent legislative and regulatory successes include: New Condo Policies Singed into Law; Rural Housing Service Loans Streamlined CFPB Makes Clear Lenders Ability to Share Closing Disclosure in Proposed Rule Drones approved for Use in Commercial Real Estate SWithout Section 333 Waiver

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