Realtor.com vs. MLS4You.net

Realtor.com, by Homestore.com
Realtor.com, a subsidiary of Homestore.com, is a Real Estate technology company that provides the following services to Realtors. 
  1. Realtor.com, through their website, offers the public the ability to search for homes in virtually the entire United States.

  2. Realtor.com offers the public the ability to search for Realtors who have contracted for a web page within the Realtor.com website in virtually the entire United States.

  3. National exposure through web, TV, and print media advertising.

  4. Real Estate productivity tools.

MLS4You.net, by iProsper.net
MLS4You.net™ is an IDX product provided by iProsper.net, a customer service company that provides Real Estate Brokers and Agents the following services:

  1. The ability to add home search functionality to a Brokerages’ or Agents’ existing website. The home search is specific to the listings in the client's database supplied by the Brokers’ MLS and is only accessible through an independent Brokerage website.

• My Assistant™ allows clients of MLS4You.net™ to have their existing and potential clients save their specific search criteria and receive emails notifying them when new listings are entered that match their criteria.

• My Showing Assistant™ allows clients of MLS4You.net™ the ability to have their existing, and potential clients make a request for a showing of a specific listing, on a specific date at a specific time, on line.

• Virtual Tour Integration allows clients to display their listings that have a virtual tour, integrated within the MLS4You.net™ display system.

• Custom Function Buttons provide the ability to filter, or hard code the client's MLS data to return specific client specified search criteria results (e.g. show only this Broker or Agents listings).

  1. The option to host an existing or to-be-designed site on iProsper.net's advanced network of web servers for NO ADDITIONAL FEE. By doing so, the client will receive custom email addresses (yourname@yourname.com), web-based and client program access to our email system, 24/7 site monitoring, FREE domain parking and forwarding, and more.

• Web site hosting offers additional savings by allowing clients to transfer their existing sites to iProsper.net for no additional fee, thus eliminating the costly fees paid to other providers for similar service.

• Customized email accounts allows clients to promote themselves and their website every time they provide their email address or communicate via email. Imagine, every time you send an email or someone sends you an email, your site is being promoted!

• Our complex site monitoring system monitors your web site 24hrs. a day, 7 days a week and calls us on our cell phones, emails us, and pages us to alert us of any possible issues. By the way, our uptime percentage has been a consistent 99.7% over the last 4˝ years.

• FREE domain parking and forwarding allows our clients to own multiple domain names without the need or cost of additional hosting accounts. We also allow our clients to use multiple domain names to point to the same site. All for NO ADDITIONAL FEE!

Specific differences between the home search system provided by Realtor.com and MLS4You.net™:

1)       Coverage

  1. Realtor.com allows consumers to search for homes almost anywhere in the United States.

  2. MLS4You.net™ allows consumers to search for homes only within an area served by a specific MLS via an independent client's participating website. 

2)       Scope

  1. Realtor.com can display a limited number of fields related to a listing and displays some or all of the following: listing Brokerage name, listing Brokerage phone number, listing Brokerage website, listing Agents name, listing Agents phone number, and listing Agents website.

  2. The MLS4You.net™ system, supported by iProsper.net, can display substantially more information (determined by the specific MLS rules and regulations) and shows only that the listing is provided “Courtesy of Brokerage XYZ”. No contact information regarding the listing Brokerage is supplied. This keeps the user of the MLS4You.net system focused on the client's website. 

3)       Availability

  1. The home search functionality offered by Realtor.com is available only through the Realtor.com website.

  2. The MLS4You.net™ display system provided by iProsper.net can be added to virtually any existing Brokerage or Agent website. 

4)       Branding

  1. Realtor.com home search Brands all listings in the Realtor.com database with the contact information and logo of the listing Broker and, in most cases, the listing Agent contact information.

  2. MLS4You.net™ brands all listings in the Brokers’ MLS with the logo and contact information of the client.

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