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2005 Good Neighbor Award Recipient, Mel Greenberg

Hip-Hip-Horray for Mel Greenberg!

The Berkshire County Board of REALTORS® proudly announces that Mel Greenberg of Alford Farm Realty has been named the Berkshire’s ‘GOOD NEIGHBOR AWARD WINNER’ for his outstanding contributions to the community. Mel is the founder of Berkshires Bounty, through which he collects food from localmelbreakingbreadkitchen1 vendors and distributes service organizations throughout the area.

Mel founded Berkshire Bounty with the vision that one passionate person could inspire others to contribute time, resources and more importantly, food – to help those in need. This organization serves many other organizations in the community that are committed to feeding and sheltering those less fortunate.

His contributions extend to the following non-profit organizations that reap the rewards of his hard work: The Peoples Pantry, Breaking Bread Soup Kitchen, Interfaith Committee of Southern Berkshire, Construct, Inc., Heverh of Southern Berkshire, The Senior Center and the REALTOR Southern Berkshire Council.

Berkshire Bounty handles the massive undertaking of collecting and providing food for the following organizations. Not only the founder, Mel works in also facets of this enterprise. He donates time, resources and has enrolled other to join him in this endeavor.

“Several years ago, Mel Greenberg told me about establishing Berkshire’s Bounty and the People’s Pantry. He asked if I would be interested in working with him to collect the food from local markets. Mel got together a group of volunteers to make the rounds of the markets every Thursday morning collecting many boxes of fruits and vegetables as well as milk and bread.

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2007 REALTOR of the YEAR, Charley Sawyer

We are proud to announce that Charley Sawyer of Dayspring, REALTORS has been selected as the 2007 REALTOR® of the YEAR! This award is given to one member of the Association that has contributed outstanding time and energy to the betterment of the Board.

Charley, a member since 1995, has been actively involved in all levels of the Association, volunteering his time and talents locally and on the state level for many years.   In 2000, Charley began his service in the  Board of Directors elected leadership pathway, having been elected to various different officer positions on the Board of Directors and eventually, elected President of the Berkshire County Board of REALTORS in 2004.

On the state level, Charley has received many prestigious appointments.   Having served as a Berkshire State Director for four years, he was elected to serve as the Western Regional Vice President of the Massachusetts Association of REALTORS.   In this role he serves on the 12 member Executive Committee, which governs the association on the whole.

Elected Leadership Service to the Berkshire County Board of REALTORS®

  • REALTOR® Member Since 1995
  • Board of Directors Leadership Pathway:
    • 2000 Central Berkshire Council President and Director
    • 2001 Board Secretary
    • 2002 Vice President
    • 2003 President Elect
    • 2004 President
    • 2004 Ex Officio, Berkshire MLS
    • 2005 Past President
    • 2006-2007 Board of Directors
      Non-Voting Ex Officio [due to RVP election

Voluntary Commitment to the Berkshire County Board of REALTORS

  • Professional Standards Tribunal Training every 2 years to qualify for service.
  • RPAC Contributor

Appointed Leadership Service to the Berkshire County Board of REALTORS®

  • Professional Standards Committee, 2004-2007 Chaired 3 hearing panels, served on 4
  • Contract Committee, 2006-2007
  • Government Affairs Committee, 2005-2007
  • Orientation Committee, Chaired 1997-2003, presenter 2003-2005

Special Accomplishments Made on Behalf of the Local Association:

  • Hosted Berkshire County Board of REALTORS® luncheon with Congressman John Olver to present RPAC contribution at the Board Office.
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ListHub’s Listing and Data Protections

ListHub has agreements in place with their publishers to provide consistent protections for members’ listing data. ListHub worked with the industry, including brokers, MLSs, consultants and others, to identify the core values and expectations that listing content owners have with respect to the use of their listing information when syndicated to a third party website.

Some of the core tenets that exist today in the ListHub Publisher agreements:

  • Listing data may only be used for consumer display
  • Restrictions on use of listing data for any derivative works or other non- display uses
  • Listing data may not be used after it is off-market
  • The content owner maintains all Intellectual Property rights
  • Publisher must display a set of minimum fields including price, address, broker name, etc.
  • Publisher must accept a broker-authorized, MLS-sourced listing as the highest ranking listing feed and cannot overwrite this data with listing data from a third party
  • Publisher must route any consumer leads to the email address designated by the broker as the lead email address (certain exceptions exist related to pre-existing agent products)
  • Publisher may not re-syndicate or distribute listing data to any third party – Publisher may have rights to power the search on a third party site if authorized in the agreement
  • Publisher must update site at least daily
  • Publisher must provide notice for any changes to its terms and conditions
  • Publisher shall abide by any state laws regarding display of real estate content
  • Publisher must provide error logs for any listing that is not accepted, and provide a direct URL for any listing that is accepted
  • Publisher must provide search impressions, detail views, and lead data for all listings (most use ListHub’s java script tracking technology but a limited few still provide file-based metrics on a daily basis)
  • Brokers have right to opt-out at any time (no long-term commitment)
  • Publishers must use the currently supported version of the RETS syndication specification

Helpful Hints from Chet Nicora (Appraiser) and Others

 

  • We have concerns about representations of age of repairs made to homes, such as when an agent indicates that a roof is “new” when in fact it was put on in 1990. A suggestion was made that the words “newer” be used and then in the remarks section, indicate the actual year the repair was done. What can be done?

Too true! There is potential broker liability if a seller discloses that a new roof was installed in 1990, yet the agent classifies it as “new” and omits the 1990, or the “17 years old” part. Buyers agents should also follow up on any general statements indicating condition (“new”, “refinished” “rehabbed”), to determine if factual information is available and if not, make sure clients are advised to seek an assessment by a professional (home inspector, septic inspector etc..) Proper disclosure is the most important legal aspect to this business – Read More about Chapter 93A

  • What is the legal description of a bedroom? Is it size? Does it have to have a closet? Does it have to have heat?

Chet Nicora, appraiser and instructor for the Berkshire Board of REALTORS®, said that definition of a bedroom is very subjective based on functional use of the property, what is typical in the area, and the age of the home.

  • Basement space can not be considered a bedroom because of window size.
  • A “walk-thru” room cannot be considered a bedroom because it lacks privacy.
  • An interior room cannot be called a bedroom because it lacks windows entirely.
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