i-Tech MLS goes live with CARETS data share in Southern California

i-Tech MLS goes live with CARETS data share in Southern California Simi Valley, Calif. December 16, 2008 – Rapattoni Corporation announced today that i-Tech MLS, a Rapattoni MLS customer and a regional MLS involving the Glendale Association of REALTORS® and the Pasadena Foothill Association of REALTORS® (PFAR), is now operational with the full CARETS (California Real Estate Technology Services) residential MLS listing data. This data covers most of the Los Angeles and Orange County areas and some of Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in Southern California. CARETS is a data share cooperative that includes the MLS organizations of MRMLS, SoCal MLS, CLAW MLS, i-Tech MLS, and CRISNet MLS in Southern California. All i-Tech's members, for one MLS membership and fee, now have access to all of the data from those MLS organizations participating in CARETS using their Rapattoni MLS system.

Rick Stever, i-Tech Administrator, said, "Rapattoni's staff accomplished the addition of the CARETS data into our listing database so smoothly that, when we went live, our members hardly noticed. On December 3rd, they suddenly had hundreds of thousands of additional listings covering most of Southern California at their disposal." Rick went on to say, "I have said all along that if we do it right, no one will notice, and Rapattoni did a great job."

Nick Rapattoni, president of Rapattoni Corporation, said, "This gives our MLS customers what they want most; complete autonomy of operation. This is becoming very popular across the nation because it gives real estate brokers and agents greater geographic coverage, for one MLS fee, yet preserves the high standard of service that only local MLS organizations can give their members."

For more information about CARETS, go to their Web site at http://www.ca-rets.com/.

About Rapattoni MLS
Rapattoni MLS is setting the standard with advanced features such as inter-MLS data sharing, integrated GIS parcel mapping, integrated member management and billing system, advanced RETS data exchange, integrated aerial photography, language translation, an integrated Secure Logon system, and the ability to operate a convenient single sign-on (SSO) identity portal.

About Rapattoni
Rapattoni Corporation has been serving the real estate industry under the same name and management for 38 years. The company provides an array of integrated products and services for real estate associations and MLS organizations, including Internet MLS systems, Association Management Software (AMS), and Secure Logon with Single Sign-On identity portals for online security and convenience. The company's MLS products are serving about 300,000 agents nationally and its association management customers represent more than 88% of the nation's REALTORS®. Rapattoni's headquarters are in Simi Valley, California.

For more information contact Public Relations at (800) 722-7338, or visit the company's Web site at http://www.rapattoni.com/.

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