Important changes concerning Remarks, Internet Remarks, and Public Remarks

The GFC CMLS is in the process of making changes to the remarks sections that appear on listing reports that are viewed, printed, and emailed from our programs (PC Access, RE/Xplorer, Paragon, Listingbook, reInsight Mobile). We are changing the focus of our two remarks sections so that they will become more useful and informative to both GFC CMLS users and consumers.

In the near future, what is currently known as “Remarks” will be renamed “Agent Remarks”, and what is currently known as “Internet Remarks” will be renamed “Public Remarks”.
Listing reports will then be altered so that the appropriate remarks field will display based on the report that is selected. The following reports, which are intended for distribution to clients and customers, will display only the “Public Remarks” section: Public Handout, Public with Map, Summary Photo, Combo, and 4-Up Photo, while the Book and Full Input reports, which are intended for distribution among agents and MLS members, will display both the “Agent Remarks” and “Public Remarks” sections. Additionally the Book, and Full Input reports will be redesigned so that the “Public Remarks” section will display immediately following the “Agent Remarks” section.

We expect these changes will be made by the end of January and will notify you a day or two before they will be put in place. We encourage you to check both your Active and recent Off-Market listings now and ensure they have both of these remarks fields populated correctly. Specifically, it is important that you check the field currently known as “Internet Remarks” as there are currently over 5,000 listings that have no information in this section at all. If these listings are not updated once the aforementioned changes have been made there will be nothing in the “Public Remarks” section in their public-facing reports.

As is our current policy, we will continue to provide only the “Internet Remarks” (what will soon change to “Public Remarks”) to Realtor.com and all IDX sites. This means that consumer reports emailed from reInsight Mobile and consumer flyers & reports displayed in Listingbook will only display Public Remarks as they are not allowed to use Agent Remarks.