Who Moved My Property?
December 9th, 2009 categories: Neighborhoods, Real Estate News, Real Estate Selling
Last night WCPO News ran an interesting story highlighting a frustrated homeowner who purchased a home in Hyde Park in 2001 and now finds the Multiple Listing Service of Greater Cincinnati (MLS) considers the house location as Oakley!
Talk about surprise- who moved the house? Well actually the property didn’t sneak to another location while the owners were sleeping- MLS was simply adhering to their rules by following CAGIS (Cincinnati Area Geographical Information System). CAGIS is an organization comprised of business, city and county entities (details here) working together on a shared data base.
Realtors rely on the MLS to help provide accurate address location data.
I am sure you have heard somebody describe their property in some location- Wyoming, Glendale, Finneytown -when in reality it was situated on a street near or very near the actual boundary lines. Over the years, the lines become blurred and as confusing (and probably frustrating for owners caught in the middle of the change) the location of any property needs to be decided by “neutral well informed source” and not the general public or their Realtors. (me included)
If you live in Cincinnati and want to know your exact location in CAGIS- follow the link below. Once you are on the site find Locating Tools on the left side bar, click on address and you are ready to go. Click here to get started.
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