Paragon Tutorials

You're not the listing agent, you're the buyer's agent, so reporting the transaction to the MLS is optional. A frequent complaint that SMLS receives from members is that agents do not include enough detail for these listings to be used as comps, so please add as much detail as possible!

1. You must wait until the transaction has closed to report the sale.
2. You may add the sale within three calendar days following closing* with no penalty. You may add the sale between 4 and 30 days after closing if you're willing to pay a $125 penalty. No listings may be added more than 30 days after closing. *Federal holidays don't count for the initial three-day window. This is the same time period that you have to update a pending listing to sold when you are the listing agent.
3. You must enter accurate property information in all required fields.
4. The listing agent fields (list date, expiration date, etc.) will not be important since the transaction has closed and you're not the listing agent. Do your best with those fields.
5. You must include the required photo of the front, exterior of the structure unless it was a land listing. Do not upload photos to the MLS unless you took the photo yourself or have obtained a license to use it.
6. Once everything is entered and published with the status "Sold Before Process MLS," email SMLS staff with the MLS # and staff will change the listing agent to the placeholder agent name "House Non Member."

No. Translation is complicated, contracts are complicated, and using a translated form creates unnecessary legal risk. Based on comments from the association legal counsel, there are no plans to translate our contract to Spanish because they are difficult to enforce in court due to interpretation issues. The best practice is to have interpreters counsel Spanish-speaking buyers and sellers as to what the English language contract says, putting the risk on the user and not the association.

NOTE: Your broker determines what listings the brokerage will accept. If the mobile home must be relocated after purchase, then it definitely does not meet the leasehold definition.

The Sunflower MLS, Inc., Board of Directors has approved the entry of mobile or manufactured homes located in mobile home parks into the MLS. All applicable fields must be completed, just like any other listing. This issue has been addressed multiple times in the past, most recently in June 2019. Legal counsel has indicated that while the mobile home itself does not constitute real estate as defined by KSA 58-3035(n), if it's sold as part of a transaction involving leasing the land in the mobile home park, it would be considered a leasehold, which does fit the statutory definition of real estate.