Athens County Board of REALTORS (ACBOR) operates its own county-level MLS, reaching well beyond Athens County into a wide swath of southeastern and south-central Ohio.
Its MLS system passed RESO technical testing on both the Data Dictionary, version 1.7, and the RESO Web API, Core 2.0.0, in 2023, real evidence the technology works.
Athens County itself is small and rural. Athens, Nelsonville, The Plains, Glouster, Chauncey, Trimble, Amesville, Buchtel, Millfield and Shade cover most of it, and a feed serving only those towns would be a very small feed.
That's not what this one is. A third-party feed record for ACBOR's MLS lists 76 cities the feed covers, updated daily, spread across southeastern and south-central Ohio.
South toward the Ohio River: Pomeroy, Middleport, Racine, Syracuse, Gallipolis, Bidwell, Cheshire, Ironton, Chesapeake, Proctorville, South Point. West: McArthur, Wilkesville, Jackson, Wellston, Oak Hill, Waverly, Chillicothe. North: Logan, Rockbridge, New Lexington, New Straitsville, Lancaster. East: Marietta, on the Ohio River. And then Grove City, sitting on the edge of Columbus, a long way from Athens by any road you pick.
That same feed record counted 777 live listings on August 1, 2026, and that number moves with the market. Spread 777 listings across 76 cities and a lot of those city pages come out thin.
Scope your city landing pages and map search for that spread, not for one county.
The full name is the Athens County Board of REALTORS, ACBOR for short, based in Athens, Ohio. According to the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce member listing, it has served Athens County since 1947. ACBOR's own site does not restate that date, so the Chamber directory is the only source carrying it.
It's a small organization. RESO's organization registry puts membership at 142, on a record timestamped April 4, 2023, so the exact 2026 count may differ. The same registry gives the street address as 225 Highland Ave, Athens, OH 45701, which ACBOR's own site does not publish.
The board splits its audiences across two domains. athenscountyrealtors.com is the member side: membership rules, officers, professional standards, benefits. athensohiorealestate.com is the public listing search. Neither one addresses third-party data access, so if you're building on this feed you're on your own for that part.
Forewarn and dotloop are both free to members, listed on ACBOR's benefits page, which tells members to contact the office for access.
Jennifer Davies is the Executive Officer and the day-to-day contact, named on ACBOR's contact page rather than with the board members above.
But ACBOR never completed the separate step to publish that testing as full certification, and the status has not changed in three-plus years. Meanwhile, the feed a major IDX vendor pulls from ACBOR today runs on a different, older feed type, not the Web API.
Whether ACBOR or RealtyPro Solutions, the vendor that runs the MLS, could provision Web API credentials on request is a genuine open question only they can answer. Confirm current access, credentialing, and any fee directly with both before committing engineering time. Once access is confirmed, MLS Import brings ACBOR listings to a WordPress site.
Current officers, per ACBOR's board of directors page:
Here's a rule from ACBOR's own membership page: MLS participation and full board membership are two different decisions.
You're not required to join ACBOR. You may join as MLS Participant only, in ACBOR's own words, and get MLS access without full board membership.
If an agent wants MLS access under ACBOR's own membership, the principal broker must join as well. Budget two seats, not one, and start the broker's paperwork first.
New members submit a completed application, a copy of the real estate license, and a letter of good standing. New-member dues are determined according to the issue date of the license as recorded by the Ohio Division of Real Estate, and a license inactive 365 days or more is processed as new. Existing members are billed in November, due January 1.
After approval and full payment, RealtyPro Solutions contacts the new member with MLS login credentials. Not ACBOR. The vendor.
RealtyPro Solutions. ACBOR names it as the "MLS Provider" on its own membership page, and the same vendor supplies the RealtyProIDX platform both ACBOR websites run on. One boutique vendor running the association site, the consumer search site and the MLS system underneath is an ordinary outsourcing arrangement for a county-level board.
RealtyPro Solutions holds its own record in RESO's registry, identifier T00000191, listed as a Technology Company with status Uncertified. That's a second, separate data point rather than a restatement of the MLS's status, since Technology Company certification is something a vendor pursues for itself.
Two details worth having before you scope anything. The MLS login comes from the vendor, not the board: ACBOR's membership page tells applicants "you will be contacted by the MLS Provider with your login credentials," and no ACBOR-specific login URL appears on either site. And neither ACBOR's site nor RealtyPro Solutions' publishes an integration with Bridge Interactive, Trestle, Spark or MLS Grid.
What no public record answers is whether ACBOR's unfinished certification traces back to the board or to the platform. Nothing on either side's site, and nothing in RESO's registry, settles it.
First half: RESO's own records say ACBOR's MLS passed technical testing on the current Web API standard, not just the data-dictionary layer, and the record hasn't moved in three-plus years. What it never became is a certification. RESO defines the status the record sits at, "Passed Current," in its own words on the certification status page:
Passed Current represents a certification applicant whose system has passed technical testing on the latest standard(s), but the organization has not yet accepted those results to be published as certified. For MLSs, passage and acceptance of both Web API and Data Dictionary testing must be completed prior to certification being published.
Second half: the feed a major IDX vendor pulls from ACBOR today runs on a different, older feed type. Not the Web API. That's a live production connection carrying real listings right now, sitting in parallel with a Web API that passed testing and has no confirmed third-party consumer.
Both are true at once. Anyone who tells you ACBOR offers a RESO Web API is guessing, and so is anyone who tells you it has no API.
RESO lists identifier M00000733 at Data Dictionary 1.7 and Web API Core 2.0.0, both Passed, dated April 4, 2023.
A live third-party feed for this MLS runs today on a different, older feed type.
78 of the 533 MLS entries in RESO's registry sit at Passed Current rather than full certification. A common status, not a red flag.
Whether ACBOR or RealtyPro Solutions could issue Web API credentials to a new third-party developer, alongside the feed already in production. Genuinely open, and it decides your project.
Who approves such a request, the board or the vendor.
Whether there is a fee for Web API access, and how much.
Whether the endpoint that passed testing in 2023 is still live and reachable.
Why the certification stopped where it did, and whether anything is holding it there.
So ask. Five questions, one email, before anyone writes code:
Two real contacts, and only two. ACBOR Executive Officer Jennifer Davies at [email protected], and RealtyPro Solutions at realtyprosolutions.com. Neither publishes developer documentation, an API-specific channel, or a credentialing process, so the general membership channel is the door you knock on.
"Can I get RESO Web API credentials even though your current IDX integrator uses a different feed type?"
"Who approves third-party Web API credential requests, the board or RealtyPro Solutions?"
"Is there a fee for Web API access, separate from membership dues?"
"Is the endpoint that passed testing in 2023 still active?"
"Is there a plan to finish the RESO certification, and does it change anything for a data licensee?"
Nobody publishes ACBOR's dues. Not ACBOR's site, not the Chamber listing, not RESO's registry.
What is confirmed about billing comes straight from ACBOR's membership page: ACBOR and RealtyPro Solutions bill separately for their services, and RealtyPro Solutions' fees are billed semi-annually. Two invoices, two senders.
So budget two real line items: MLS dues at an amount you have to ask for by email, and the MLS Import subscription. Don't pencil in a Web API connection fee. Whether one exists is unconfirmed.
Yes. ACBOR operates its own county-level MLS in Athens, Ohio, with RealtyPro Solutions as the MLS technology provider. It is not a participant in a larger regional or statewide system.
ACBOR's membership page states that the board and RealtyPro Solutions bill separately. MLS Import connects to one MLS feed per WordPress site.
Further than the name suggests. A third-party feed record lists 76 cities it covers, among them Chillicothe, Lancaster, Marietta, Ironton, Logan, Gallipolis, Pomeroy and Grove City on the edge of Columbus.
That's a feed's own coverage list, not an official jurisdiction statement. ACBOR's site says only "Athens and the surrounding counties." MLS Import imports whatever the approved feed carries.
Its system passed RESO's technical testing on the RESO Web API, Core 2.0.0, and the Data Dictionary 1.7, both dated April 4, 2023, under identifier M00000733.
RESO records that as Passed Current: testing passed, certification never published. Whether credentials get issued today is a separate question. MLS Import needs working credentials, not a certificate.
Passing and publishing are separate steps. Passed Current means the organization has not accepted the results for publication as certified.
78 of the 533 MLS entries in RESO's registry sit there, so it is a common status. No public source says why ACBOR's stopped where it did. MLS Import works with either status.
Not confirmed either way. The feed a major IDX vendor pulls from ACBOR today runs on a different, older feed type, and no public credentialing process, approver or fee schedule exists for the Web API.
Ask ACBOR at [email protected] and RealtyPro Solutions directly before scoping work. MLS Import requires an approved feed.
No. ACBOR's membership page says agents who already belong to another board are not required to join ACBOR and may join as MLS Participant only.
If you want MLS access under ACBOR's own membership, your principal broker has to join as well. MLS Import does not replace board approval.
Not published anywhere: not on ACBOR's site, not in the Chamber directory, not in RESO's registry. Email the board at [email protected] and ask.
Check attribution on any figure a search turns up, since a similarly named association operates in Watkinsville, Georgia. MLS Import is billed separately at $49 a month.
RealtyPro Solutions, named as ACBOR's MLS Provider on the board's own membership page. The same vendor supplies the RealtyProIDX platform behind athenscountyrealtors.com and the consumer search site athensohiorealestate.com.
After membership approval, the vendor rather than the board sends MLS login credentials. MLS Import sits downstream, on your WordPress site.
Email [email protected], the address in the footer of every page on ACBOR's site. Executive Officer Jennifer Davies is the day-to-day contact named on its contact page.
The street address is 225 Highland Ave, Athens, OH 45701, and mail goes to P.O. Box 1149. MLS Import support covers only the WordPress end.
Yes, once RESO Web API access is confirmed with ACBOR and RealtyPro Solutions.
MLS Import imports approved listings into native WordPress posts on your own domain rather than an iframe, syncing hourly, with photos served from the MLS source. Confirm the feed first, because no plugin grants board approval.
Membership and any data-access decision at the Athens County Board of REALTORS come from ACBOR and RealtyPro Solutions, not from us. ACBOR publishes no phone number on its own site, in the Chamber directory, or in RESO's registry, so email is the channel that actually works.
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