(Don’t) have to admit it’s getting better

November 8, 2008

Down in Pinellas County, Fla., last month’s transition to TEMPO 5 MLS system "was one of the smoothest I’ve experienced in more than 20 years."

So says the director of information services for the Pinellas Realtor Organization and Suncoast MLS in a press release issued by TEMPO 5 vendor MarketLinx (see Inman News story).

Many Inman News readers will recall San Diego-based broker-owner and Inman News columnist Kris Berg’s take when Sandicor upgraded to Tempo 5 over the summer.

TEMPO 5, she complained, seemed to have been developed by "a rabid badger holding a doctorate in quantum physics and a grudge."

Now Pinellas Realtor Organization’s chairman of the board reports (via MarketLinx) that TEMPO 5 business reports are "amazingly fast" and listing maintenance is "extremely efficient."

Pinellas County broker and Inman News member Anne Hensel begs to differ.

"Sorry, I am NOT impressed at all," with TEMPO 5, she comments. "It is Soooooooo slow and it takes twice as many clicks than it used to take to get a result."

Buyers are unhappy too, Hensel says.

"If I send them 5 listings, only one shows up and they have to click at the bottom somewhere on the right hand corner to get to the next listing," she reports.

Hensel says the only feature of TEMPO 5 she likes is the map search.

You know how the song goes:

"I’ve got to admit it’s getting better, better

A little better all the time, it can’t get no worse"

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