Things are heating up!!
 June 2016 
 Membership Newsletter

Thank you from Four Rivers! 
       We faced some major changes in the month of May with our MLS system and data feeds.  Through the help of our MLS Board of Directors, FRAR Board of Directors, staff, and project team at CoreLogic, we were able to successfully cut over to the new system. 
      Please accept our sincere thanks for your support through this transition.  Change is never easy, but our members have truly embraced the new system and tools available to them.  We're happy to announce that Matrix offers an enhanced client portal, increased customer service hours (now including weekends), the Realist tax system which offers you data for the entire state of Texas, and a streamlined system to better your business.
       We're happy to say that we are offering additional training opportunities to our members this month.  On Monday, June 20 from 9-12 and 1-4 we will have Matrix Open Lab.  You can bring your laptop and get one-on-one help from our trainer Willie.  On Tuesday, June 21 from 9-11 and 2-4 we will offer Realist training.  We know many of you used CRS in our previous system and we want you to feel as comfortable with the new tax tools available to you.  Both days will be at our headquarters location at 936 Gruene Rd in New Braunfels.  No registration necessary, come one - come all!
       As always, we are here for you.  Please feel free to reach out to our valuable staff if you should need anything at all.  Thank you for trusting Four Rivers and the Central Texas MLS with your membership!
Amy DuBose, Association Executive
Four Rivers Association of REALTORS� 


Announcement:
     The Four Rivers Association of REALTORS� is proud to announce a new philanthropic endeavor in support of Homes for Our Troops (HFOT). HFOT is a non-profit organization that operates nationally to build mortgage-free, specially adapted homes for severely injured post-9/11 Veterans, enabling them to rebuild their lives.
     Four Rivers has chosen this project to emphasize the role of REALTORS� in impacting the lives of their neighbors. This new support effort for HFOT is part of Four Rivers' ongoing commitment to advocating for housing opportunity, community enhancement, and especially for ensuring that safe and secure homes are available to Texas' Veterans and active duty military. Currently, there are twelve Veterans in Texas who will benefit from this great mortgage-free homeownership opportunity through HFOT. Of these twelve Veterans, there are eight who have chosen to live in our service area. In twelve years of operation, Homes for Our Troops has completed over 210 homes for the nation's most severely injured Veterans, many of whom have sustained multiple amputations, varying levels of paralysis, blindness, and traumatic brain injury. Empowered by the freedom a mortgage-free, specially adapted home brings, HFOT Veterans can focus on their recovery, and return to their life's work of serving others.

     Four Rivers is proud to be supporting this mission.  REALTORS� are the ambassadors of their communities and on the front lines of what is fundamental to the comfort of each and every one of our fellow Texans.  A home is more than walls and a roof - it is a place to heal, to grow, to connect. We are dedicated to finding each family the right place to live, especially these heroes.
 
We have formed a new task force designated specifically to developing fundraising and awareness ideas in support of Homes for our Troops.  If you would like to participate on this task force, please email Amy DuBose at [email protected]
Come one ---- come all!
Scholarship Movie Night featuring Forrest Gump
$25 suggested ticket price includes
food, beverages, and chances for some awesome prizes
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Thank you to our advertisers:

We Need Your Photos! 
Our new website will have a photo slide on the homepage and we will switch out featured photos periodically.   
Here is what we are looking for:
  • Photos from all areas of our market
  • Photos from all seasons
  • No listing photos please
  • Scenery/view only please
  • No photos of people please
If you have photos and we would like them featured on our homepage, please email them to [email protected]
We will give you photo credit. 
 

 

Matrix MLS Training Video
Matrix MLS Training Video

Revised Property Tour Instructions
If you would like to put a listing on either the San Marcos, New Braunfels, or Seguin property tour, please review the revised instructions below.
  • Go to Matrix.ctxmls.com 
  • Enter your User ID and Password
  • From Home page, go to the Input tab and click on Input
  • Under Listings, go to the "Quick Modify" section and enter your MLS # and edit
  • In Select Form you will go to Open Houses
  • You will enter the date of the tour you want your home on.
  • Time will be from 9:00 to 11:00 am.
  • Active status is "yes"
  • Under Open House Type, it is very IMPORTANT to make sure you pick "CARAVAN" (This is the only way we can find it to enter your property on the tour).
  • Under Comments, please put which tour (New Braunfels, San Marcos or Seguin) you want it on and any other additional comments you'd like.

For additional information about all area property tours, please click HERE.    



This month features TREC Legal I and II, broker responsibility, Sellers Representative Specialist, pricing strategies, and water rights for the Texas REALTOR.
Be sure to speak with LaDawn next time you're in to find out more!
Schedule can also be found by clicking HERE.
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Four Rivers Association of REALTORS | 936 Gruene Rd | New Braunfels | TX | 78130