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VisualTour.com® Contact: J. L. Winn, TRF Systems, Inc.
JLWinn@VisualTour.com 954.345.9701 ext 220

VisualTour.com® provides virtual tours to MRIS and HomesDatabase.com

CORAL SPRINGS, FL - July 24, 2000 - VisualTour.com® today announced an agreement to automatically link their virtual tours to Metropolitan Regional Information System public property search portal www.HomesDatabase.com.

Metropolitan Regional Information System (MRIS) is the largest multiple listing service in the mid-Atlantic states and operates www.HomesDatabase.com, including approximately 150,000 to 200,000 listings each year. This new automated tour linking service is available to their 28,000 MLS members in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Washington, D.C.

Effective immediately, VisualTour.com® will provide its database of virtual tours for all MRIS member listings to be displayed as a virtual tour on the www.HomesDatabase.com website. These listings and linked tours can also be displayed from member websites through the Active Agent web service that MRIS offers to its agent members.

"We have a number of clients in the mid-Atlantic region who rely on the HomesDatabase.com and Active Agent services as their main online lead generation source. It only made sense to give them the ability to link their VisualTours® to their listings to maximize the effectiveness of their e-marketing," states J. L. Winn, Vice President of Marketing for VisualTour.com®. "Even though MRIS has an exclusive contract to market the iPIXä brand of virtual tours to their members, MRIS realized that it was in their members' best interest to provide this free, automated service without impacting the terms of their contract with iPIX. This new service ensures that our clients' virtual tours are seen within two days of entering their listing and creating their tour. This helps these agents promote their listings many days or even weeks before their competitor's virtual tours are linked to their listings. And of course there is no additional fee for this new service. In fact we encourage all of our clients to introduce this automated service to their own MLS and local REALTOR Board or Association."




About VisualTour.com®
VisualTour.com® (www.VisualTour.com) is developed by TRF Systems, Inc. of Coral Springs, Florida. Incorporated in 1991, TRF Systems is the leading provider of innovative digital photo management software and services in a number of vertical markets. TRF is an Alliance Partner of MGI Software Corp. (www.MGIsoft.com), a worldwide leader of Internet visual media tools. The VisualTour.com® system is recommended by the Council of Residential Specialists, the Allen F. Hainge CyberStars™, and the Real Estate CyberSpace Society. For more information, please contact J. L. Winn at TRF Systems at 954.345.9701 or by email at JLWinn@VisualTour.com.

Metropolitan Regional Information System (MRIS)

MRIS is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. MRIS was incorporated in 1993 and is owned by 25 REALTORŪ Shareholder Boards/Associations and the Board of Directors oversee general operations. MRIS has over 28,000 Realtor member and appraiser customers and operates in Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C., West Virginia and Pennsylvania. and is one of the largest providers of real estate information in the U.S. MRIS operates HomesDatabase.com, a comprehensive source for finding a home in the mid-Atlantic region. Over 50,000 active listings are available for searching. Specifically designed to bring agents and home buyers together, MRIS strives to make the home buying experience a joy.

(c) TRF Systems, Inc. 2000. VisualTour.com® is a registered trademark of TRF Systems.All other company and/or product names are trademarks of their respective manufacturers.

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