Spark vs Quicksource hands free MLS imports?

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

All of these import systems are about to be obsolete when the new forms are introduced. Why waste money on a short term use?

 

[Surf Cat]

All of these import systems are about to be obsolete when the new forms are introduced. Why waste money on a short term use?

I don't think they're going to want to lose their market share.... they've been working on it since the uad 3.6 has been announced....

 

[cpursley]

All of these import systems are about to be obsolete when the new forms are introduced. Why waste money on a short term use?

Seems to be moving in that direction - if the new form software is hooked up to pubic data and MLS it would save a lot of time from double entry.

 

[JTip]

Seems to be moving in that direction - if the new form software is hooked up to pubic data and MLS it would save a lot of time from double entry.

It's not that easy. Besides the human error, aka agents with fake data, the big problem is there is no uniformity with either MLS or public data. Take the word 'bungalow', that word does not exist in the three MLS I belong to. But other MLS use it. Front one county to the next, each with unique proprietary systems and data displays that don't work well with other systems (think Apple and Android, like oil and water).
Same with MLS, Bright won't data share with other MLS providers (like Navica or Flex). Bright participants sold all their current and future data to Bright and they WILL NOT share.

Unless the govt takes over the whole real estate system, capitalism will prosper.

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

Seems to be moving in that direction - if the new form software is hooked up to pubic data and MLS it would save a lot of time from double entry.

The ACI marketing strategy that recently included a promo for Spark is confusing IMO especially because the ACI "Workbench" functionality seems to be based upon the link you mentioned that presumably would also link on the upside with the appraisal forms. All that potential would be wasted if the link to MLS wasn't based upon the user's ability to query MLS for the market data needed to populate subject, competing, and neighborhood property info. [Meanwhile, inquiring minds still search for a politico to represent the downtrodden national appraisal rank n file...]

 

[J Grant]

MLS mis reports property types , calling a 2 story condo a townhouse ( fee simple ), over stating sf living area by including the garage and so on. But public records can also be off, for various reasons. True computers are less error prone with street address or folio numbers and the like.

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

It's not that easy. Besides the human error, aka agents with fake data, the big problem is there is no uniformity with either MLS or public data. Take the word 'bungalow', that word does not exist in the three MLS I belong to. But other MLS use it. Front one county to the next, each with unique proprietary systems and data displays that don't work well with other systems (think Apple and Android, like oil and water).
Same with MLS, Bright won't data share with other MLS providers (like Navica or Flex). Bright participants sold all their current and future data to Bright and they WILL NOT share.

Unless the govt takes over the whole real estate system, capitalism will prosper.

...reminds me of an assignment in 2024 when the lending client issued me a condition that required me to define the subject improvement [legal duplex with legal ADU} as a "TRIPLEX," although I wasn't able to find a formal, universally-accepted definition of that concept, which became evern murkier [?] when the municipal Planning chief advised me in writing that a Triplex could only be comprised of a 3-units in one building. [If anybody is wondering about the outcome, I finally caved in and grudgingly agreed to define the improvements as a Triplex, in the absence of a formal definition that would have prevented me from doing do--classic example in my constained perspective of the type of "business decision" that viritual AF mentor Glen often mentions...

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

MLS mis reports property types , calling a 2 story condo a townhouse ( fee simple ), over stating sf living area by including the garage and so on. But public records can also be off, for various reasons. True computes are less error prone with street address or folio numbers and the like.

JG, wondering if in your opinion MLS is accurate more so than assessor when a discrepancy between those two sources exists?

 

[KHS445]

I think the most commonly used definition would be: A triplex is a three-unit residential structure with a single owner, akin to a duplex or fourplex. While a triplex is made up of three separate residential units incorporated into one structure, the units usually share one or two common walls.

Per the Oxford Dictionary: Dictionary
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tri·plex
/ˈtriˌpleks,ˈtrīˌpleks/
noun
1.
NORTH AMERICAN
a building divided into three self-contained residences.

While not a big deal, I would find your defining a duplex with a separate ADU as a triplex as misleading. It does not define what is actually there. Hopefully your pictures and improvement description accurately represented the existing improvements.

 

[J Grant]

JG, wondering if in your opinion MLS is accurate more so than assessor when a discrepancy between those two sources exists?

each situation is different but overall imo assesor information is usually more accurate.