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“Karen is an outstanding, intelligent and charismatic individual who is determined to succeed at anything she attempts. During her 11-year tenure at Real Estate Business Resources, she led a “start-up” company into a profitable and relevant business, serving the needs of real estate brokers and agents throughout Kansas and North America. We are very proud of all her accomplishments and heartily congratulate Karen on her new position with RPR. Her leadership talent will be missed at Real Estate Business Resources (REBR), however, we are proud to see that Karen will continue to serve all REALTORS® on an even larger platform at RPR,” said Sandy Green, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Real Estate Business Resources, Inc.

Karen’s new role with RPR will be focused building partnerships with local and state Associations and MLSs to expand training and communication programs designed to support RPR to NAR’s one million members across the country.

Prior to her employment with REBR, Karen served as Director of Governmental Relations for 17 years for KAR where she worked as the lobbyist for the association on legislative and regulatory matters.

RPR CEO Dale Ross, stated, “RPR is excited to add Karen’s extensive knowledge and background with Association training and leadership to its growing member support programs. RPR is committed to provide an increasing level of opportunity to its users in order to improve their efficiency and productivity with their clients and customers.”

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Anne Marie Matteo is CEO of Suburban West REALTORS® Association, which covers the southern and western suburbs of Philadelphia. She said, “We know that easy access to rich market information and innovative tools are a key part of making our members successful in their business. RPR is a tool that will do just that, while also further adding to the value of REALTOR® membership.”

 In addition to the Suburban West REALTORS® Association, the other Associations that launched RPR today were:

• Bucks County Association of REALTORS®
• Burlington Camden County Association of REALTORS®
• Gloucester/Salem County Board of REALTORS®
• Greater Philadelphia Association of REALTORS®
• Kent County Association of REALTORS®
• Mercer County Board of REALTORS®
• Montgomery County Association of REALTORS®
• New Castle County Board of REALTORS®
• Reading-Berks Association of REALTORS®

TREND, the MLS for the Philadelphia region, facilitated the transfer listings to help create a robust catalog of properties.

“RPR is extremely proud to partner with the Philadelphia area REALTOR® Associations and TREND to bring its member benefit to the 28,000 professionals in the area,” said RPR CEO Dale Ross. “RPR’s core mission is to ensure that the REALTOR® remains central to the real estate transaction by providing one-stop, high value search, analytics and reporting functions to brokers and agents to help them save time and money, be more productive, and create opportunities to service their clients and customers with the latest technology.”

RPR is a technology initiative developed by the National Association of REALTORS® for the exclusive use of its 1.1 million REALTOR® members.  For the MLS Partners map, visit here.

Weichert branding was integrated within the RPR Broker Tool Sets in conjunction with the recent RPR application launch to the more than 42,000 REALTOR members of the Metropolitan Regional Information System (MRIS) in Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and parts of Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia. In addition to the 56 Weichert sales offices in the MRIS market area, 49 other Weichert offices can access the RPR database in New Jersey and New York State, with an additional 88 Weichert offices pending launch in surrounding areas.

Weichert’s decision to adopt the Broker Tool Sets enhances its access to RPR’s robust national, parcel-centric database by allowing its Sales Associates to also leverage four distinct Broker Products: Company Branding, Affiliated Service Support, the RPR Chart Service and the RPR Data Tool.

“We are pleased to be able to offer our Sales Associates the additional resources that RPR provides,” said Jace Botti, head of residential sales for Weichert, Realtors. “There is no doubt that in today’s information age, there is a benefit to being able to quickly and easily provide homebuyers and sellers with the most up-to-date and accurate information available.”

RPR’s Broker Tool Sets are designed to help real estate firms leverage the large database of property information which RPR has compiled, including assessor and recorder data, multiple listing data, mortgages, foreclosures and pre-foreclosures, demographics, and geographic information. In addition, RPR will provide brokers with new ways to help promote their brand identity, consistency, and service delivery, and integrate their core services into the RPR product for sales associates which is delivered through each multiple listing service within their local REALTOR® Association.

Another enhanced feature within the RPR Broker Tools Set will be the ability to provide market trending tools that will assist with future business strategies and planning initiatives for brokers, owners, and managers.

RPR CEO Dale L. Ross stated, “RPR was created to offer Brokers and agents across the country the opportunity to be more productive by offering a one-stop source for valuable nationwide data on every property in the country. This no charge REALTOR®-only benefit saves time and money and will help to create more opportunities and value for sales agents with their consumers. It’s gratifying to see a company of Weichert, Realty’s stature in the real estate industry affirm that value and offer it to their Brokers, managers and sales agents.”

About Weichert, Realtors
Since 1969, Weichert, Realtors has grown from a single office into one of the nation’s leading providers of homeownership services by putting its customers first. A family of full-service real estate and financial services companies, Weichert helps customers buy and sell both residential and commercial real estate, and streamlines the delivery of mortgages and home and title insurance. Weichert leverages its customer website, www.weichert.com, one of the most visited real estate websites in the nation, to help families and individuals realize the dream of homeownership through quick and easy access to listing information and the services of its real estate professionals nationwide. For more information, Weichert’s customer service center can be reached at 1-800-USA-SOLD. Weichert franchised offices are independently owned and operated.

About Realtors Property Resource (RPR)
RPR is a technology initiative created in 2009 as one of the National Association of REALTOR’S® (NAR’s) Second Century Initiatives and was developed by the NAR for the exclusive use of its 1 million REALTOR® members. Realtors Property Resource, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary corporation of the National Association of REALTORS® with offices in Washington D.C., Chicago, IL and Irvine CA. For more information on Realtors Property Resource go to: blog.narrpr.com.

A few months ago we launched MyRPR.com; the site is aimed at documenting real stories of RPR users. Today I wanted to give a little “how-to” behind one particular story that agents keep talking about. It comes from Gordon Corsie, a REALTOR®, east of San Francisco.  Gordon needed to prep for a listing presentation quickly. He turned to RPR and prepared a report on the home, then used his iPad as the presentation tool.  His sellers loved it and he found it to be an effective and efficient way of organizing his presentation.

Since both the RPR website and mobile site will run on the iPad, loading reports is easy. But what iPad apps are best for the viewing experience? What if you don’t have internet access? What’s the best way to archive the report for quick retrieval later? Let’s take a look at 3 different techniques for displaying RPR Reports.

Here are a few of my favorite apps for viewing RPR Reports on the iPad.

iBooks is my first recommendation for anyone using RPR reports on an iPad.  For starters, iBooks will cache the files it displays; including PDFs. Meaning once you’ve loaded your RPR Report into iBooks, you will not need Internet access to retrieve and preview them with your clients….which is always a smart tactical move.

1. Either open the report directly from RPR using an iPad, or if you are working from a desktop computer email the report to yourself from RPR. If you’ve emailed it, click the “Open Report” link from iPad, and the report will open in Safari.
2. Press your finger in the upper-right select choose “Open in” and then select iBooks.

*If you like iBooks, you might also like Stanza

GoodReader made the list because it does a great job of archiving your documents.  You can also connect to a variety of useful services like DropBox, Box.net, Google Docs, and Mobile Me. Of course they’ll connect to email and Wi-Fi too. With GoodReader you can also organize your files in folders, rename, annotate, highlight and delete right from the iPad.

As referenced above, GoodReader can connect to a variety of sources. Of course you can follow the steps offered above with iBooks. The only difference is on the last step choose GoodReader. But you may choose to grab documents from DropBox, Google Docs and more. Those instructions can be found here.

If you appreciate the flip effect that books have on the iPad, you’ll like this app. Free in the app store; Perfect Reader makes scrolling pages visually interesting.  It also archives your PDFs, and allows for you to easily rename and send the files to other applications.

1. Either open the report directly from RPR using an iPad, or if you are working from a desktop computer email the report to yourself from RPR. If you’ve emailed it, click the “Open Report” link from iPad, and the report will open in Safari.
2. Press your finger in the upper-right select choose “Open in” and then select Perfect Reader.

*may also like Cloud Readers

Ok, so now it’s your turn. What app are you using to present RPR reports using the iPad?

According to MRIS President and Chief Executive officer David Charron,  “MRIS is committed to providing our customers with the tools and resources they need to advance their business.  RPR is just one of those tools and we’re looking forward to aligning with RPR to enable REALTORS® and MRIS customers access to this robust tool.”

“The REALTORS® in MRIS are used to being on the cutting edge of real estate technology,” said RPR CEO Dale Ross. “The launch of RPR in the MRIS markets will allow their REALTORS® to leverage RPR’s high-value search, valuation and reporting tools to create even more income opportunities.  In addition, the national footprint of RPR’s data and functionality will allow expanded access for REALTORS® to provide valuable information to their clients and customers.”

RPR is a technology initiative developed by the National Association of REALTORS® for the exclusive use of its 1.1 million REALTOR® members.  For more information on Realtors Property Resource, go to: blog.narrpr.com.

About MRIS

MRIS is real estate in real time™, enabling its customers to list and sell nearly $100 million in real estate each day and nearly $100 billion in listings and closed sales in 2010. A leading developer of real estate information technology, MRIS connects its customers with timely, accurate and actionable data with a growing portfolio of technology solutions, including broker and agent software products and an industry-leading consumer portal, HomesDatabase.com. MRIS also showcases unique homes and offers tailored community information through its online television network, mrisTV.com.  Behind the scenes, the CURE Solutions Group subsidiary of MRIS provides back-end technology to other MLS systems through CURE, a proprietary solution. MRIS serves nearly 42,000 real estate professionals spanning a 22,000 square mile section of the Mid-Atlantic region, including Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and markets located in Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia. Visit us at MRIS.com,  MRISblog.com or mrisTV.com, “Like” us on Facebook.com/MRISonFB, and follow us on Twitter, @MRIS_REal_News.

About Realtors Property Resource ® (RPR™)

RPR, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Association of REALTORS® incorporated in November 2009, is a nationwide database providing REALTORS® with extensive property data and analysis as an exclusive member benefit of NAR. RPR’s goal is to aggregate and deliver to its users a comprehensive database of information about all 147 million parcels of residential and commercial property in the United States. RPR is 100 percent owned, operated and controlled by the members of NAR. For more information about Realtors Property Resource, visit: blog.narrpr.com or contact Jeff Young, Senior Vice-President of Operations, 312-329-8255.

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