Yes, I agree, I don’t mind the emails, I do believe the phone calls will become a problem more than anything.

I would only set the reverse prospecting on clients that I feel are close to making a purchase and don’t mind hearing from agents that have something to tell me that isn’t necessarily on the MLS yet.

For example, I did get a call from an agent Tuesday that had a property that matched my client’s search. Initially I was “great it’s starting already”, but she actually had value in her call changed my mind. She was letting me know that her client was going to offer closing costs and down-payment incentives, that they would be updating the MLS soon, but wanted to let us know to let our clients know right away. I appreciated that and sent the note to my client.

I wouldn’t like it if she just rehashed everything that was in the MLS, tell me something of value and in an eMail is best of all, it’s not interrupting my day that way.

I see this as a future blog post “Reverse Prospecting Etiquette”

I saw the reverse prospecting feature & had the exact same reaction as you – sort of a “how cool is that?!”

My 2nd reaction was “oh man, this is going to create a TON of spam from agents who are telling me their property is perfect for one of my client-searches.”

Look – before any of you start spamming me, realize that if your property was perfect, and it’s in the mls, and my search finds it, and assuming my prospect is ready to buy, we would have already made an offer! No need to email me, thank you.

Upon further review, it looks like agents on both sides need to sign up for this feature. That means only the agents who sign up for spam will receive spam.

Overall, though, I’m loving FlexMLS.