Good morning everybody and welcome to today’s webinar on some additional search options in FlexMLS. In most of the FlexMLS fundamentals classes, we’ve looked at the quick search when searching.
So today we’re going to focus on four other search options. Before we begin, if you are attending this live, then you will see the option to use your GoToWebinar control panel. From here, if you have audio issues, make sure your computer’s speakers are on. If you have a bad connection or need to leave, we are recording this and we will send you the link. You don’t need to ask. And if you have any questions, use the GoToWebinar control panel, open it up, and type those questions in. We have both Anne and Amy on the line and they’ll be responding to those questions. If you have problems with GoToWebinar, there’s also a help option there. You can reach out to GoToWebinar directly for help, but remember we are recording this class. Now the examples I show today are going to be in the Fargo Moorhead MLS, but the things I show, the processes, will be applicable to your MLS regardless of where you’re at. And I will also make a few notes if there’s something that is optional that may or may not be included by your MLS. With that, let’s go ahead and look at the topics we’re going to cover. We’re going to begin with the MLS number search and after that we’ll look at the address search, the office and member search, and finally the quick launch in FlexMLS. This is kind of an omni search tool so we’re going to cover it last.
The MLS number search, this is the last slide before I actually move into my screens, you can enter a single MLS number, multiple MLS numbers, and you can also do a radius search while using the MLS number search screen. And I have a note on here in red at the bottom where my mouse is hovering. When is the best time to use this search? When you’re searching for multiple MLS numbers. So I’m going to illustrate that when we look at the actual search screen.
I’m just going to exit my full screen and I’m going to come over here into Flex MLS, go to my menu, and go down to my MLS number search. Now since we’re talking about it today, I’m just going to put a star next to it and pin that on my favorites bar at the top just so we can refer back to that frequently. So when we go to the MLS number search screen, you’re going to see a box at the top for entering in the MLS numbers and then you’ll see if your MLS shares data with another MLS, you can include those MLSs here. If your MLS does not share data with another, you may not see that option at all. And then of course the radius search at the bottom.
I am going to come over and I’ve got some MLS numbers pasted on another screen. So I’m just copying and pasting off screen right now. So I just copied some numbers. So if you have multiple MLS numbers and you want to look specifically for those, you can do that through the quick search, but it’s going to be more time consuming. On the MLS number search, I could take another document where I have these numbers and I can paste them in. So I copied those off screen and I pasted them in. Off screen I had them separated just by a space. You’ll notice when I pasted them in, it actually puts the commas in between them. So you don’t even have to really worry about formatting that. It’ll do that with the commas for you. So I’ve got, I think about six MLS numbers that I’ve pasted in and then I click on search at the bottom and it’s going to give me those six specific MLS numbers that I’ve included. So I have four closed listings and two active. It also puts them in the order that I had pasted them in from that previous screen.
So of course, just like on any search screen, even though it started me on the list tab, I could jump into the detail or the photos for any of the listings that I had found in my search results. So it’s a very direct search to use and it works great when you’re typing in multiple MLS numbers and I’ll just right click and paste them in again, again to show you what I did. Now if you’re looking for a single MLS number, there are multiple options in FlexMLS to do that. We’re going to discuss this quick launch bar at the top of the screen. That’s what we’ll look at last.
But this works great for a single MLS number, so I’ll just come in and put one in this bar at the top.
If I’m looking for a single MLS number, type it in or paste it in and I could go directly to that listing. So it works good for a single but this box at the top of the screen will not work for multiple and that’s why I recommend using that MLS number search screen if you have multiple MLS numbers. Now also from here, I’m just going to take a few of those off. You have the option to draw radius. So if you know the MLS number, you’ve got the miles, the distance here. The default is one but you can change that. The statuses that you want to include in the search results, you can select beneath. I’m just going to look at active and pending here. So one mile from this particular MLS number. Click on search and it’s going to present those to me in a list, but if you want to see where that radius is drawn, and I see there are fifty listings active and pending here, if I want to actually see how that was drawn, just jump over to the map and you’ll see everything. The active listings are in green. The pending ones are in that orangish color, and the center of that circle was drawn with that MLS number. That was a closed listing, so you’re not seeing it that listing itself included in the search, but it found the address, drew a one mile radius around it. The nice thing about this is if I use the MLS number search to draw a radius, I still have the option to go over to edit search and if I wanted to put in something like only residential listings, I have that option here. It was looking at residential and land. If I want to come in and add items to the search, for example, maybe I want to add in closed listings, I can do that after the fact.
Or if I want to put in a property subtype single family, I can add those to my search. So I can go in and modify that search when I use the radius option from the MLS number search screen. Now as I said, very straightforward search works particularly well if you want to enter multiple MLS numbers. You can separate them by a space or a comma and just use that search feature.
From here, we are going to move into our next search option, and that’s going to be the address search. So when we get to this screen, you’ll notice it only uses U. S. Postal address information. So if you have subdivisions or areas in your MLS, you will not find those on the address search screen. Only U. S. Postal address information is included on that screen. You’ll also see the street name. You can say street name begins with, contains, or ends with. There are some additional search options if you share data with another MLS, there’ll be a data share option there. Property types to include and statuses to include. And when is the best time to use this? And this is used best. One of the most common use cases I see the address search used is you want to pull up all listings along a specific street. Maybe you’re interested in seeing all active listings on Pine Street. The address search works really well for that. So I’m going to move into Flex MLS and I’m going to use my menu, go to my address search and I’m going to pin that up here to my favorites today since we’re talking about it.
Click on that address search and you’ll notice I have house numbers. If I was just looking for a specific house number, could enter in the specific range of from, for example, six six six seven to six six six seven. Just that house number. But if actually if you’re looking for just a specific address, this bar at the top of the screen works really well. But the limitation with that quick launch bar, if I’m looking for a specific address, it works great, but if I’m looking for everything along Lori Lane and I start typing in the word Lori Lane and I see, look at all these listings, five active listings on Lori Lane. It’s looking at the street name but it’s looking for a specific address. So it’s going with the top five matches. There may be more than this. It only lists the top five matches based on status and then spelling. So this doesn’t look at for for all the listings along a specific street. This is just giving me the top five that are on Lori Lane.
This if I want to look at all the listings on Lori Lane, come down to your address search. Street name. Does my street name begin with Lori? Does it contain the word Lori or the letters for Lori? Does it end with Lori? In this case, it begins with Lori. So if I said contains, it would look for the letters l o r I anywhere in the street name, but now I can just say begins with Lori and if I know if my MLS covers a wide area, I may want to limit that by city or county because if I have multiple cities in my MLS that have similar street names, it would be best to just kind of limit that down by city or something like that. So take that into consideration, especially if your MLS covers a very wide area with multiple cities in it. You may want to further narrow it down with these location fields. And remember, these are only U. S. Postal address fields: county, city, state.
You won’t see anything like area, subdivision, or even something like school district. That will not be included on the address search screen. You do see an option for show more. And when I look at that, I see property types to include. Maybe I’m only interested in looking at residential and possibly land. I can change my property types to include in the search results. Same thing with statuses. If I don’t specify a status, it’s looking for everything. But if I come in and say, well I only want to see active and pending listings or if I wanted off market dates or status change dates, I could come in and enter those dates as well. And then I do have another option here to see only my office listings or only my listings. So you will see that option here as well. Now I’m just going to look at active and pending listings along any street that begins with Lori. So when I click on search, it’s looking for all street names that begin with Lori. So you’ll see all of these street names have Lori, l o r I, beginning with.
And actually there’s only one Lori Lane in this particular MLS, so I don’t have to worry about getting something outside of West Fargo. If I want to see where these are mapped to see everything on Lori Lane, remember you’re on a regular search results screen. You can jump directly to the map. So I’ll be able to see whatever listing is highlighted, see it appear as a star on the map. Now I do see a couple of listings that are pending and they’re they don’t look like they’re actually on Lori Lane. Lori Lane looks like this little loop right here. So maybe the listing agent didn’t quite get those mapped properly or maybe this is a new development. If I go to satellite view, I see it’s kind of looks like a field. Maybe that’s an outdated satellite image. Maybe Lori Lane stretches back a little bit further now. So it’s not looking when I do the address search, it’s not looking at the map location. It is literally looking at the street name, Lori Lane. So anything with that Lori Lane, even though they may not be mapped quite on to Lori Lane, which is right up here, the street name for these listings, if I come down to one of these, you’ll see this one down here still has the street name of Lori Lane where my mouse is hovering. If I go back to my address search, I’m going to click on it at the top.
One of the common questions here is does it retain these settings that I clicked when I clicked on show more? And that actually resets between each search. So by default, it’s just pulling up everything unless you come in and click see more and start limiting what it’s going to display.
So if I were to do this search again and just type in street name contains Lori, but I don’t go in and set my statuses or property types, it’s going to include all property types and all statuses on Lori Lane. So I’ll see probably more search results right now because this reset between uses. So that address search, show more options, it resets every time. So when I click search now, I’m going to see forty eight listings.
And if I go in to look at that on the map, I see there is a Lori Lane right over here. That’s why my map is so wide. There’s actually a Lori Lane in Detroit Lakes.
So if I wanted to exclude those, say Lori here, city, West Fargo, and now it’ll only be looking in West Fargo for street names that begin with Lori or contain Lori rather. So I’ll come out here, thirty eight. Now if I go to my map, those are all going to be mapped in West Fargo. Now there are again some that are just a little bit out of the where I would expect to see that group right here, but those are also a few years old here. This looks like it was twenty twenty, so maybe it wasn’t mapped correctly. Maybe there’s another Lori Lane up there where it just didn’t have any active and pending listings when I did my initial search. But you’ll see I get a lot more search results because in between uses the show more options reset to include everything each time. So anytime you use this and want to restrict it, just click on show more, select the status, status change dates, and property types. And that’s the address search and that is probably one of the most frequently asked questions that people will say is, I tried looking up everything on Lori Lane in this quick launch bar and it only pulled up five listings. For addresses, this quick launch bar at the top just looks for single specific addresses. It doesn’t look all the way along a street unlike your address search which gives you that power. So show that off to everybody in your office, all the realtors that you know, they’re going to think you’re a FlexMLS genius when you tell them that. And from here, we’ll move on to our next search function which is going to be the office and member search. So for the office and member search, we’ll see separate options on the page to search for offices, members, or if your MLS also includes teams, there will be a separate team option there as well. So I’ll show you where that is at. There is a view listings option that I will show you today. Most MLSs include this for their members, although some do not, so when we get to that I’ll make a note, but you can actually look up an office or a member and say show me their listings directly from that search. Are a couple of filters to search by language or if there’s data shares that your MLS uses. And when is the best time to use this search? Well, when you’re looking up an office or a member and need contact information, phone, email, that sort of thing. That’s a great time to use the office member search. If I need to know something about another realtor in the system or office, pull up their contact information. If I’m looking for somebody who speaks a specific language, when you go into your profile in FlexMLS, there’s a quick profile maintenance at the top of the screen and you can select languages spoken. The office member search allows you to filter by those languages spoken. And then for those MLSs that allow it, and most do, it’s a fast way to bring up office listings or member listings when you use that search. So let’s take a look at that. I’m going to come over now into Flex MLS. I’ll go to my menu one more time and I’m going to use the office and member search. And again, I’ll just put a star on this since we are talking about it and I’ve got it pinned to my favorites. I’ll click on office member and on this screen, remember I said once we come to this screen, you can search for offices, members, or teams. There are links right at the top of the screen. Right now I’m on offices, so if I were to use the search, it would look for offices. I can jump over to members and do a search for specific members, and if your MLS uses teams, you’ll see a teams option. Now if your MLS does not use teams, you won’t see a team option. So from here, I’m going to go into offices and I’m going to look up park company realtors. So I’m going to click find an office, start typing in the word park, and it starts pulling up here. Now depending on the size of your MLS, you may have multiple offices with similar names. You’ll notice there is also the address next to the office so you can sort through those fairly quickly as you’re looking at that just so you know you’re getting the information for the correct office that you’re looking for based on the address, the city, that sort of thing. Now when I click on park company, I’m going to see the office contact information. If there’s a designated broker for the office, they’ll appear here. Phone numbers, the address, and you’ll also see three options at the top. Some may only see two options, office details and the next option, office members. I can get a list of people in the office. So I can see the realtors that belong to this office, and then I can also see right next to that this MLS makes sure to say their designation. Your designations may be different than the ones you see on my screen. Here in Fargo Moorhead, they will classify them as active on MLS for those active realtors, designated broker, and I could go in and look at one of those particular members as well. So you can jump to a member that way if you know what office they’re in, or you could go into the member search and type in the member’s name that you’re looking for. I’m going to go back to office and you’ll notice it retains my search criteria. That only stays for about ten minutes. If I come back ten minutes later, this is going to be showing all offices again, but if I want to reset that search, you can click the x in that search bar and then I have all offices. But the system will, for a few minutes at least, kind of retain your most recent search so I don’t have to type that in again if I navigate away and then navigate back. When I click on this, if your MLS allows it and most do, you can search for the offices or members listings. So right beneath that you’ll see view office listings. If you see that option, that means your MLS allows that. If you see it on a member’s page, our profile, contact information and see says see member listings, your MLS allows that. Most do, but just in case you don’t see it, some MLSs have different rules that they abide by. Now when I click on this, this is going to bring up, in this case, one hundred and eighty two listings. And I see many active and as I scroll down I see closed listings, pending listings, some more active listings. With these search results, what determines the statuses that are included and how far back does it go? Is this going back one year? Is it going back six months? Back to my office member search page, I’m going to close this, and there’s an option at the top of the page, and I can even close this just to kind of reset the screen. View listing options in the top right. If your MLS allows you to search for member and office listings from this screen, you’ll see this option. And here I can say, well I want to see when I click on view listings, if it’s the listing member or listing office in the case in our example that we’ll do, co listing. I could even include the selling sides if I want. So they weren’t on the listing side but in this case we’ll do the office again. We’ll include them on the selling side. So that’ll include more listings.
Statuses. Which statuses do you want to include? Maybe I don’t want to include all the statuses used by my MLS. Your MLS may have some other contingent statuses or something that you see under here. They’ll all be available, whatever normal statuses were on a search screen will be available here. And then I can say relative date ranges.
Last month, six months, year to date, or twelve months. Maybe I want to go last six months. That means it runs six months back from whenever I run that, or maybe I want to do year to date, and I could also put in a specific date range. You’ll see it’s x ed out. I have to actually select it to be able to type that in. But I’ll just say year to date.
So I’m going to pull up listings year to date for this office and I’m just going to select listing sides because this is a big office so it’s going to have a lot of search results here. So I’m just going to look where this office is in the listing side, Year to date. Click on save.
And now whenever I run a search and look for the listings for an office or member, it saves that so it’ll use those settings every time unless I go in and change it again. So let’s just demonstrate that with Park. Park company here, click on that.
We’re going to click view office listings and now we’re going to get, in this case, six hundred and fifty. You’ll see that at the top of my list, six hundred and fifty results. So I can, of course, start on my list tab. I could go into any of the other tabs while I’m viewing this. Now here’s a really neat thing that you can do if you’re looking up, you want to see what have I done this year to date or what has my office done year to date. I ran that search from the office member screen. I looked for active, pending, and closed listings year to date, and I can jump over to the compare tab, and on the compare tab, I see comparison statistics in the top row. Just to the left of that, search statistics. This is a really easy way. Now it’ll take a few minutes to compile this, but it will tell me how many currently active listings we have in this office, how many pending listings we have in this office, and how many sold listings we have in this office. And then it gives a graphical breakdown of it as well. So I can say year to date where this office is included on the listing or co listing side, there are four fifty eight closed listings. Currently seventy one pending, one twenty one active. I get average, median, and low prices for those right here, days on market information. So this is a really fast way to pull up stats for yourself or for your office for just what have you done this year so far or in the past month or past six months depending on what you have set in your office member search. So those view listing options, remember those save. They don’t reset. If I were to look at them right now, everything we selected last time is still going to be included whenever I do a search in the future. I have to manually change that because it has a save option right here. So a great way to pull up office information or member information, a convenient way to find those listings, view those listings, and I threw in that for free. It wasn’t even in the class description. On the compare tab, search statistics, it just breaks down all six fifty listings here once those numbers compile. And this page, don’t be alarmed if it takes a few minutes just depending year to date. We’re almost at the end of the year so it takes just a little longer for an office this size to compile and display on that page. But it’s a nice way to break down what we have sold, pending, active, currently, closed for the year. Great way to have access to that information.
From here, we are going to move into our last search type which is going to deal with this quick launch bar, that bar at the top. And I’ve pointed out some limitations with it already. I’ll review those, but let’s look at what the quick launch can do. It can find your saved searches, your recent searches, and draft searches. You can search for another office or members directly from here. I can look for contacts or listing collections that I’ve saved or if I’ve saved a CMA, it’ll be available there as well. I could find menu items. And lastly, it’s good for looking for a specific address. Remember, not looking for an address everything along a specific street, but a specific address, really fast search tool. A specific MLS number, not multiple, just one MLS number at a time, very good for that. And I can even put in basic search criteria.
So let’s take a look at some of these functions here. So I described this as a sort of omni search tool. This quick launch bar at the top of the screen looks for so many different things. If I click in it but I don’t type, it gives me the past five searches that I’ve run it, but it’s only including saved searches here. So I see an hour ago I ran Megan’s demo search. A month ago I ran Becky’s residential search. Justin’s residential search about a month ago. So it just gives me the past five searches and also any items that I’ve typed in there recently, there’s that quick launch history. Now this is also a fast way. If I type in the word draft, it’s going to give me the past five searches that I ran but did not save. So you’ll see I’ve run a few searches here. Twenty three minutes ago, I ran a draft search. I can click to open that in this screen. It also allows me to open that in a new tab. So if I was doing something on our original tab but wanted to see this search that I was working on twenty three minutes ago, I can just open that in a new tab, and I’ll you how to open in a new tab again if you missed that, but here was one of the searches that we ran previously. So you can always find draft searches if I go to my menu and I go down to saved searches. I have a draft search section that shows me my past three draft search, and those draft searches remember are just searches you ran but did not enter or did not save, excuse me. But if I type the word draft, I get the past five. So I get more draft searches here. It tells me when it was run. So if you were in the middle of a search, navigated away accidentally, you can always just type in the word draft and pull up those searches that you were running recently that did not save. So quick way to access your draft searches.
Now I can also search for a specific member or if I’m looking for a specific office, so maybe I want to look at that park company office, and you’ll see it’s looking for listings that have the word park in that Lake Park, Minnesota. It’s looking in the city here. Start a new search and it’s looking for something that might begin with park when starting a new search. In this case street name, Parkers Prayer or City of Parkers Prairie. Members that have parks somewhere in their name or it looks like they belong to Park Company. Or I can go to the office here, Park Company Realtors. So you can look for members. I could type in somebody’s name. I could type in an office name, and I can jump directly to that office in this example. It takes me to the office member search screen, but a nice quick shortcut to get there if I’m looking somebody up. I can also I’m gonna exit from here. I can also go to a menu item. So maybe I didn’t have hot sheet on my favorites. And so rather than clicking on menu and then scrolling down to find hot sheet right here and going to my twenty four hour hot sheet, you can find menu items by just typing in what you’re looking for and you’ll see it labeled as the menu item section hot sheet. Takes me then to my twenty four hour and custom hot sheet screen. So I can find menu items there. I could look up my contacts. So if I want to look up Megan, I have a contact named Megan Phillips. I have a CMA saved for Megan, so it shows me CMAs with the name Megan in. I have a contact named Megan. So a nice shortcut getting to my contact.
And it will load those contact details for Megan. I’ll click here to close, but just showing you a shortcut way to get there.
Now I also pointed out that you can find a specific address. So remember when we used the address search and I pulled up all the listings on Lori Lane? Here, if I start typing in Lori Lane, it is just looking not for all listings there.
It pulls up it uses an algorithm to search by status, spelling, most frequently clicked on, that sort of thing, and it gives me the five best matches according to that algorithm for specific addresses that I’m looking for.
So if I wanted to search for something specific, it would be best just to type in six six six seven fifty fourth Avenue as I start typing that out. It’s great for looking for a specific address. It’s great for looking for a specific MLS number. So if you have an MLS number that you want to type in, I could type in that. Now in this MLS, they use that prefix.
Your MLS may or may not use a prefix in front of the MLS number. You’ll notice if there’s something with a dash in front of it, that’s just a prefix that gets added. But I could look up a specific MLS number here. Now I tell people it works great for a specific MLS number, but not good if you want to type in multiple MLS numbers. If I have five that I want to cut and paste in here, it’s not going to work. That’s when you would use your MLS number search, the first search that we started off with today. And the reason why is it’s going to start inserting commas there and once you start inserting commas between numbers, it starts looking for a price. This can actually function as a shortcut to using your quick search. So even though I said we weren’t going to focus on the quick search today, when I start typing in search criteria here, it will function much like a quick search. So I’ll type in, for example, a price range. I can type in all the zeros or I might just say four hundred to six hundred and rather than putting zero, I can say k. It tries to be intuitive. There is a certain logic behind that so you can kind of play around with what you can type in and it starts asking me, do you want to use one of these quick search templates and these are the top three templates used by this MLS.
The top three in your MLS will pop up here and in this price range. I can even further narrow that down. Maybe I want to say four bed, I could type in bed, bedrooms, BDS. Again, it tries to be predictive with that language. I could type in three bath, and maybe I just want city of West Fargo. And so you’ll see it’s asking me. Do you want to start a residential, multifamily, vacant land and lots? Those are the first three search templates that are available in this particular MLS. That’s why they pop up. And again, if I want to open this in a new tab and if you multitask, this is a good tip to know. I just move my mouse all the way to the right before I click and click on new tab. So we still have our original screen back here on our dashboard, but I opened up an entire new instance of FlexMLS that is showing me four hundred to six hundred thousand, four bed, three bath, in this case the city of West Fargo. So I can come in and I see there are active listings that it’s searching for. If I want to modify this search, this makes a great place to start a search, but you can always jump. It starts me on the list if there’s more than one results. It starts on the list. I can always click just to the left of list and click edit search and I see it. So I got that quick search template, residential, price range, city, everything we typed in in that quick launch bar previously. But I could also come in here and start narrowing that down. Say I want to make sure that everything included in the search results are single family Or I want to add in your built or square footage. I can go in and modify that search after we’ve already looked at it on the list.
So it makes a great place to start a quick search. Now I’m going to also give you a few more things that it can do when I’m using it as a quick search. You may or may not know it, but you can actually do a radius search from here. So we looked at how to do that from the MLS number search, but I can type in the word near and then put in an address or I could put in an MLS number if I would like. So I could say near twenty one dash five eight eight five. And the word near in that quick launch will show two mile radius from here. So just I’ll open this in a new tab. We can see what that looks like. I see there are fifty listings. If I jump over to the map, I can see the drawn radius here. Now it’s looking at active listings as I come in here. It’s just using that residential search which defaults in this MLS to active listings. I could always come back, edit the search, and include those off market. Maybe I want to add in pending and closed. And now I’ve got six seventy six.
Now I could actually come through here and I say I could say the statuses I want to include. And I could even say instead of saying near, I could say one mile from. So let’s just type in, I’m going to say recent closed. That’s going to give me closed with a status change date in the past thirty days. So it’s going back to elevenone. So it goes back one month here. Recent closed, maybe I’ll put in three bed, two bath, and it’s going to treat that as three plus bed, two plus bath. You should be able to put in square footage fields here as well. Most MLSs have that enabled for square footage, And now you’ll see what it’s looking for. And finally, I’ll say one mile rather than near. I’m saying one mile from I could type in the address. I could come in and just type in the MLS number here as well. And I’ll say four thousand nine hundred and sixty two. So I’ll do a residential search and this tells me two plus bath, three plus beds, status change date of thirty days goes back to elevenone. Status of closed one mile from this MLS number, two thousand square foot. I can open that up here or like we did before, open that in a new tab. Fourteen results. So I can jump over to my map tab just to see that radius that’s drawn. It’s giving me recent close. If I go in and look at the details of these listings, I’m going to be able to see the close date on them and they’ll all be have that status change date, in this case eleventen. It’ll be status change of thirty days. So nice, quick way, draw radius, search by status, or just begin a quick search. And remember, when I’m beginning a search, it is looking for those pre existing search templates just like I’m on a search result screen and selecting one of those search templates.
Those appear as I’m coming in and making my selections. It’s giving me that search template so I know what property type I’m going to look for from there. Now, this tool is a really fun tool to play with, and it can search for so many things that I want to point out a place where you can say, well, I can’t remember that every time and I don’t want to go back to this video every time to see all of the things here that it can search for. Remember, you do have access to help. On the top right of every screen in FlexMLS, there’s the help. The second option, FlexMLS help, is going to be the website for help.
From here, how can we help you today? That search bar that we were looking at was called the quick launch. So I’m just going to type quick launch. That’s what I’m looking for.
Click on search and then I see these options. Search from the quick launch bar. Quick launch search tips. I’m going to just look at those tips. Quick launch search tips. I could go through a guided tour. Oh, that’s right. I can type in the word draft to pull up my draft searches. I can search by price. Search by status change, bedrooms, bathrooms. If your MLS uses areas that should be searchable through there. Radius search, predefined search templates, what we were doing with our last few moments.
You can even combine search criteria, and sometimes if you really love using that now I prefer just to start a quick search if I’m going to be getting into something really complex rather than typing everything into the quick launch bar, but you can even use semicolons to separate search criteria in there as it gets a little bit more complex. So you’ll see a search where I’m searching for this example areas one, two, three. I could search multiple areas or locations, separate it by a semicolon. So you’ve got a lot of options here. So don’t forget that on any page inside FlexMLS, you can go to help. That printed website that I was just on is FlexMLS help. For today’s example, we just looked at the quick launch, but of course this is a full help website. You can see help with searches, CMAs, subscriptions, all kinds of featured content right here. I just did looking for the quick launch. I can even search from my results screen. The search bar is over on the left here as well. So a really good tool for you to be aware of if you want to go in and play with that and see what that quick launch bar can and cannot search for. Now that does conclude the information that I had for you today. Just a quick recap of what we talked about. We began with the MLS number search and I stress that the best time to use that if you have a list of MLS numbers that you want to cut and paste and drop in, MLS number search works great for that, or doing a radius search from a known MLS number. The address search, remember US postal address only, and one of the best uses for this is just pulling up all listings along a specific street.
Great place to do that and you do have those more options here as well. The office member search. How to use the office tab, member tab, and if available, team tab, and as you’re looking at the results, if your MLS allows it, you’ll see a link to view the office or if you’re looking at a member record, view the member listings. So a nice quick way to find listings for an office or a member. And then lastly, we talked about that quick launch bar there itself that’s at the top of the page, and you’ll notice I don’t have my quick launch bar on my favorites because there is no menu item for quick launch. It’s simply a function that is at the top of almost every single screen that you’ll encounter inside Flex MLS. So it’s always there, and that is a multi search tool.
It can look at so many different things: members, your contacts, your saved searches, your saved CMAs, menu items, specific addresses, specific MLS numbers, or even using and starting an entire search or accessing your recent searches and draft searches. With that, I want to thank you for attending today. I am going to mute from here, but I know that there are still some questions out there that Anne and Amy are answering, so we will go ahead and finish out answering those questions. I’ll let them type in those results, but I will stop presenting right now. Thank you for attending and have a great rest.
