[Rets-dev] Re: Extra Fields in Metadata information

[Jeryl Cook]

Gentlemen & Ladies ,
I am a newbie , I apolgize in advance for silly questions asked .


I’ve been working as a J2EE/Java developer for a good while now, and am 
feeling the entrepreneur itch to develop a product/service that will enable 
me to retire on a beach in a few years ..

I came across the RETS,  and the  real-estate industry and what RETS is 
trying to accomplish which is great. On the business side for developers, 
webmasters I am a little confused on how consultants like myself can develop 
products using MLS data(retrieving it..)
hopefully some of you can answer these questions and I can research future 
from your responses.

Question 1.
Can independent developers connect to MLS Servers for free/payment without a 
broker?
I read on the rets home page that this is not  possible to get MLS 
information unless I work for with a broker, however I MANY sites that seem 
to have the entire United status releastate listing for users to search to 
find  a house they want.
Example:

Why does this guy “realtor.com” get everything?
http://www.realtor.com/virginia/nbselva.asp?poe=realtor

http://www.harmonhomes.com/
??

Question 2.
I would love to just pay a monthly fee and web-services/XML-RPC/or I can 
access a nightly dump to access a system that holds all listing in a RETS 
1.5(latest right version)..
..
for example, this..
http://www.mris.com/

Question 3:
For sale buy owner?  Did they use MLS?i doubt it ..are they using any 3rd 
party database to synchronize for-sale-by-ower information? If so what/where 
is it?
http://www.forsalebyowner.com/?PID=GOOG1427

how are you guys making  money implementing RET solution(consulting? U all 
have a product/website?)

Thanks in advance if u can give me some pointers, on where to go next, etc..




Jeryl Cook

".Attitude, after all, is everything.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about
itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
-unknown.





>From: "Keith T. Garner" <kgarner at crt.realtors.org>
>To: Sergio Del Rio <Sergio.Del.Rio at t4bi.com>
>CC: 'Mark Lesswing' <mlesswing at crt.realtors.org>,'Chadwick Meyer' 
><chadwick at cratemedia.com>,'E-mail Rets-Dev' <rets-dev at rets.org>
>Subject: Re: [Rets-dev] Re: Extra Fields in Metadata information
>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:02:16 -0500
>
>Hahaha, that would do it.  I needed to be more imaginative in my search.  
>:)
>
>Keith
>
>Sergio Del Rio wrote:
> > The 1.5 specification just has 'Starts with an X' and then states 
>'followed
> > by a dash' in it...
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sergio Del Rio
> > Templates 4 Business Inc.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Keith T. Garner [mailto:kgarner at crt.realtors.org]
> > Sent: September 28, 2006 11:56 AM
> > To: Sergio Del Rio
> > Cc: 'Chadwick Meyer'; 'Mark Lesswing'; 'E-mail Rets-Dev'
> > Subject: Re: [Rets-dev] Re: Extra Fields in Metadata information
> >
> > Sergio Del Rio wrote:
> >> And this is a very common thing to do as some RETS servers are adding
> >> extensions and need to do it by extending some of the metadata.  The
> >> specification also states that all these additional columns must start
> > with
> >> 'X-' to indicate that they are extensions.
> >
> > I wouldn't have mentioned that too, as I have the same recollection.  
>But a
> > search through the 1.5 spec (at least via Preview on the mac) couldn't 
>find
> > the section on X-
> >
> > I just found it in 1.7 in section 15.4.  I'm not sure if its anywhere 
>else.
> >  Its placement in 15.4 makes me seem only to apply to the ServerInfo
> > transaction.  I remember the intent of X- to apply to any of the 
>metadata
> > items.  Bonus points to whoever can find it.
> >
> > Keith
> >
>
>
>--
>   Keith T. Garner - Managing Director - Center for REALTOR® Technology
>    kgarner at realtors.org - 312-329-3294 - http://blog.realtors.org/crt
>
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