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The standards for how real estate data is transferred from MLSs to data vendors has been updated. Has your real estate brokerage platform vendor updated their platform to use the data dictionary and the RESO WebAPI? Sam DeBord, the CEO of RESO, joins Eric Stegemann to discuss how RESO helps brokers and why they should pay attention to these standards.
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Eric Stegemann (00:01):
Hi, everybody. Welcome to Brokerage Insider the podcast where we interview some of the leaders in tech for real estate today, I am very lucky to be joined by Sam DeBord. He's the CEO of the Real Estate Standards Organization. Thanks for joining me, Sam.
Sam DeBord
Thanks for having me on Eric. It's nice to see you at least virtually whenever I can.
Eric Stegemann
Yeah, I know. Right before the show we started recording and, and Sam was mentioning how we would normally see each other maybe eight times a year, at least. And you know, it's very different year this year, and we're not able to do that, but resell put on a great virtual conference. If you need a, a primer for how to put on a great virtual conference where people actually felt connected ring up Sam and his team, they put on a fabulous one a couple of months back, and it was a lot of fun to be there during the day, get great information, but also they kept people connected even at night. Like a lot of these events you do when you're in person where you have a beverage with somebody after hours Sam's team actually made that happen in a virtual environment, which I hadn't seen up until that point. So cheers to do to you and your team doing a great job there. And hopefully we can be in person again here soon.
Sam DeBord
Yeah, thanks for that, Eric. We actually did have a lot of fun with that. Nothing like changing a full in-person conference to a virtual one in a month, but our, our team did an awesome job getting that event together and we really did have a lot of fun and resell conferences are all always supposed to be a good time. So we'll do virtual receptions however we can and make the best of it. And we're trying to have the usual sort of a hotel bar room and lobby con conversations that we don't get to have in in this current situation here. So we'll keep trying to make these events fun.
Eric Stegemann (01:49):
Yup. You're doing great. Keep it going. So for those that aren't knowledgeable on what RESO is, and it's unfortunate that I'm going to say the next sentence, which is, I think most brokerages, brokerage staff, people do not know what the Real Estate Standards Organization is. Can you give us a little background on it and what the mission of the organization is?
Sam DeBord
Sure. And I think you're right in assessing the situation. And, and it's okay that a lot of brokers don't know I was a broker for 20 years. I didn't really know what resell was for quite a few years at the beginning of that time, because most of us aren't that deeply involved into the guts of your technology....
