Member Tools & Info
Several helpful tools can be found in the links below, including Help Lines, accessing your VBR account, SentriLock one-day codes, and checking your Code of Ethics status with NAR.
If you need any assistance with MLS, MLS Touch App, Tech Helpline, or Sentrilock, please use the contact information below.
Flexmls Support:
support@fbsdata.com
888-525-4747 (7 AM to 8 PM MTN, Monday - Friday)
Tech Helpline:
Phone: 866-619-8170
Sentrilock Support:
Phone: 877-736-8745
As a member of VBR, you have National, State, and Local Realtor® membership. You are provided benefits and tools to enhance you both professionally and personally!
Click here to see a list of benefits available to you as a Realtor®.
Affiliates, you also qualify for the healthcare solutions available through Alpine Association Benefits and the Colorado Association of Realtors®. And make sure to use the HOME Magazine ad rate discount that is available. Please click the link above to learn more!
Put your safety first with a new, FREE app called SafeShowings. Available to VBR members, SafeShowings deters criminal behavior and helps keep you safe while showing property.
Click here to get started today with SafeShowings!
- Easy-to-use affiliate directory that can be shared with clients.
- Domus analytics
- Full monthly market statistics
JUST THE FACTS: No Truth to Reports Division of Real Estate Mandating Vaccinations as Part of Licensure
The Vail Board of REALTORS® is dedicated to being essential to our members’ success. Keeping our members informed on industry trends and issues with accurate, truthful, real-time information is a top priority for VBR leadership and staff.
It has come to our attention that a false rumor is circulating online and on social media among Colorado REALTORS® relating to vaccination requirements for real estate licensees. It is obvious why REALTORS® who have received any communication with this message would be alarmed! VBR wants to ease our members' minds with the fact that the Division of Real Estate is NOT planning to require vaccinations for Colorado Real Estate Licensees. Moreover, The Vail Board of REALTORS® has no such requirement for membership.
There is truth to the fact that the Board of Health is considering an emergency rule for vaccinations, but this is ONLY for DORA professionals working with vulnerable populations in medical settings and congregate senior living facilities, NOT any other group. There is no consideration of a rule requiring vaccination that would impact our REALTOR® Members. This has been confirmed by the Marcia Waters of the Division of Real Estate and by the Colorado Association of REALTORS®.
The best source of information on guidance, Best Practices, or any regulations related to real estate licensees is the Division of Real Estate (colorado.gov), or you can find legal and regulatory updates on the Colorado Association of REALTORS® website. VBR will always act quickly to inform its members directly of any changing regulations at our local board, DORA and CAR. Your success and safety are important to us!
Be well!
Amy Reid
Association Executive
The Vail Board of Realtors® Board of Directors is providing ALL VBR education classes to our members for FREE in 2022. This benefit is available to all Primary and Secondary Realtor® members, and to our Affiliate members.
Read more about the benefit here.
The Vail MLS offers our members a FREE PROACTIVE SAFETY AND LEAD INTELLIGENCE service.
Quickly becoming the industry standard for safety and prospect intelligence, FOREWARN is a revolutionary application that allows agents to have instant due diligence on prospects. In seconds, with as little information as a phone number or name, VMLS members can verify a prospect’s identity, criminal records, bankruptcies, liens, judgments, address history and property records all in one place, leading to safer and more productive interactions.
This is not only critical for your personal safety and efficiency but also a benefit to your listing homeowners, providing an added layer of protection for their homes and families through your vetting of prospective buyers.
For more information about setting up your account click here.
Easily and affordably put a floor plan on every one of your listings, provide more service for your Sellers, and improve the home buying experience for Buyers.
FloPlan is available to all MLS members. Click here to get started with FloPlan!
In less time (about 10 minutes) and for less money (just $12) than it takes to get a burger and fries served to you in a restaurant, you can scan your listing and upload it. The next day, you’ll have a complete floor plan that you can email to your seller and instantly attach to the listing in our MLS. No extra equipment, expensive gadgets, time-consuming training or gimmicks.
Click here for the FloPlan learning center.
REALTOR® and Appraiser members are required to complete Code of Ethics training once in a three-year cycle. This is a requirement of the National Association of REALTORS®.
The current cycle runs from January 1, 2019, ending on December 31, 2021. A NEW 3-year cycle will start on January 1, 2022 and run until December 31, 2025.
The VBR is offering our classes for FREE to all members in 2021, including Ethics. There are also options available through VanEd.com, TheCEShop.com, and NAR.
Not sure if you need to take Ethics? You can check your status here.
The National Association of Realtors® is committed to making housing fair for all. Fairhaven is an innovative training platform available to all NAR members at no additional cost. The website is part of NAR’s ACT! Initiative, a fair housing action plan that emphasizes accountability, culture change, and training to promote equal housing opportunity within the industry.
Visit the Fairhaven.realtor platform today!
VBR's new Realtor® Hub Locker pickup service is a quick, easy and free convenience available to our members! It's similar to Amazon's locker pickups with four lockers outside the VBR for evening, weekend, and holiday pickup of any item. Hub Lockers work with your SentriLock app and allow you to pick up items when we are not around.
Click here to read more about this service and how it works.
The VMLS Board reinstated one-day codes as a backup option for issues with the SentriConnect App, cell phone coverage, or other extenuating circumstances. After hearing the concerns of the members, the VBR and VMLS Board of Directors have approved to add back this feature.
Realtor®/Appraisers must continue to grant access to affiliates and unlicensed individuals such as contractors, inspectors, and photographers. The original reason for the change was because of liability risk to the Board by using the one-day codes. For example, if a member gives access to a person using a one-day code, and something happens during this time the person is in the property, or if the one-day code is shared with an unauthorized person. Since the VBR is providing the lockbox service, the liability could potentially fall to the association, because we would not have had a way to track who was in the property.
If members choose to use the one-day code feature, they are REQUIRED to input the first name, last name, and phone number of the person entering the property so that the MLS has the data needed for our liability. As part of the changes to the Rules and Regulations, a fee of $50 per occurrence will be issued to members who violate this requirement.
The SentriConnect Mobile App allows the listing agent to grant temporary access to their lockboxes that are assigned to a property for those who don't already have access like contractors, inspectors, and photographers. SentriConnect allows the listing agent to grant access to a specific lockbox for a specific duration of time and receive instant notifications of when the SentriConnect user accesses the lockbox.
Watch a video to learn more about SentriConnect.
How to use SentriConnect® (For Non-SentriLock subscribers)
How to grant SentriConnect® access with the SentriKey® Real Estate app.
Welcome Home Bags are available!
As a free benefit to all VBR REALTORS®, members who sell a home can pick up a bag to provide as a client gift. Please call 766-1028 to schedule a pick-up time.
Each cooler bag is full of quality items that can be used for activities in our community; a picnic blanket, cutting board, set of wine tumblers, and a reusable Chico shopping tote. Thank you to our Affiliate sponsors; Closet Factory, Fireside Properties, FirstBank, Stewart Title, TurnKey Vacation Rentals, Title Company of the Rockies, and Walls + Floors/ The Paint Bucket for making this program possible.
We also offer links to helpful community resources, such as local schools, on our Welcome Home Bag Resources page.
Colorado Association of Realtors® (CAR) has recently created a Buyer Advisory and a Seller Advisory resource for members and consumers. This document was designed to assist a property owner in understanding many of the important documents and other considerations they will encounter before, during, and after the sales transaction. These documents are helpful tools that members can use.
Click to view the Buyer Advisory and the Seller Advisory.
The National Association of REALTORS®' Trademark Rules are designed to protect and promote the special meaning of the REALTOR® Marks, ensuring that the REALTOR® brand remains a valuable membership benefit. NAR's manual sets forth the trademark rules in detail to help members understand how to properly use the marks.
Click here for NAR's Membership Marks Manual.