LISTING ENTRY CHANGE

Effective Monday, May 9, 2011 there will be a change in Listing Load.

In our Listing Load the Post Office field is a text field where you type in the Post Office for your listing. While not a problem in the past, lately, this has become an issue with the post office names being entered incorrect or misspelled. When our/your listings are sent to the internet this error is sent along and the listing post office is displayed incorrectly as the property address. It does not portray the listing agent, listing broker or MHMLS in the best light. As an example, the post office Poughkeepsie is spelled in 35 variations; Hopewell Junction is spelled in 24 variations.

The Post Office field in Listing Load will be converted to a drop down for you to choose the appropriate value. The available Post Offices will be generated by the County selected. We will maintain Post Office drop down boxes for our primary areas (counties) being Dutchess, Westchester, Putnam, Ulster, Orange and Columbia. Listings that are entered in the area (county) Other the Post Office field will operate as it does now, a text field.

While we make the transition, you will find some of the Post Offices may not appear in the drop down. In this case contact me at MHMLS. I will verify the missing post office and program it into the database to make it available in the drop down box.