Article 4.5: Listing Photos and Virtual Tours

Article 4 - Rules and Regulations

Section 5: Listing Photos and Virtual Tours.

             

A.    At least one front exterior photo or rendering, aerial photo, or water view from the property (unit) must be loaded before a listing will be active. The front exterior photo or rendering must be entered in the 1st photo slot of the listing on all property types unless the 1st slot is an aerial photo or an exterior photo of a water view from the property (unit), in which case the front exterior photo must be in the 2nd slot. There are two exceptions below.
i.              The sellers’ have the ability to withhold photographs from the MLS after written authorization is provided to the listing Broker/Agent and then supplied to the MFR’s administration department.  A logo will be added when written authorization is received that states "Photo not available per seller’s direction".  (Addition 6/17/11)
ii.        The only exception is vacant land listings which must have a photo or an aerial photo, rendering, site plot or plat map in the listings’s 1st photo slot.  Front exterior photos must show a majority of the total home/building and the broker’s yard signage may not be featured in the foreground.  Photos may not contain any embedded Participant/Subscribers contact information or text.

B.    Photographs, virtual tours and/or renderings submitted by a Participant or Subscriber shall not be copied by other Participants or Subscribers for use in a subsequent listing of the same property without written permission of the Participant or Subscriber who originally submitted the photographs, virtual tour or renderings.

C.   There must be at least one front exterior photo, rendering, aerial photo or water view photo on loaded on each listing before it will be released into “Active” status.  The front exterior photo or rendering must be entered in the 1st photo slot on all property types unless the 1st slot is an aerial photo or an exterior photo of a water view from the property/unit, in which case the front exterior photo must be in the 2nd slot. The only exception is for vacant land listings which must have a photo, aerial photo, rendering, site plot or plat map in the 1st photo slot.

D.   Front exterior photos must show a majority of the total home/building and the broker’s yard signage may not be featured in the foreground.

E.    Photos or virtual tours may not contain company or agent logos, agent photos, commissions, bonuses, any contact information, voice, text, or graphics of any kind (with the exception of copyright ©) in the virtual tour or photo sections. Only photographs, site plot, property sketch, property line art or survey of the property can be entered in the virtual tour and all photo fields. The third-party virtual tour vendor’s contact information (non-interactive) is the only contact information allowed on Virtual Tours. The virtual tour link may not contain any Participant/Subscribers names or links to any third party business or social networking sites.

 

 

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