MRIS Makes REALTOR® Safety a Priority With A New Smartphone Safety Application

VANCOUVER, BC — September 21, 2011 — MRIS, the Mid-Atlantic’s real estate Multiple Listing Service (MLS), has partnered with Moby to bring its leading real estate personal safety app directly to its 42,000 customers. With the Moby app MRIS customers can share location information, send alerts, or automatically request assistance from emergency services.

“Safety is a top priority in the real estate industry, and MRIS is pleased to partner with Moby to introduce the latest technologies to enhance existing business and security plans,” says John L. Heithaus, Chief Marketing Officer at MRIS. “Moby leverages leading GPS and professional monitoring technologies to keep our customers protected while doing their jobs, which helps ease the concerns of friends, family members, and colleagues. MRIS is bringing Moby to customers through MRIS.com, as a further commitment to keeping its customers safe.”

Designed to keep safety in reach, Moby is a smartphone app that alerts a user’s chosen contacts with a request for assistance, and provides an interactive map of the user’s location. Alerts can be triggered by a single button, and powerful location sharing features provide peace of mind and added safety. For a small additional monthly fee, alerts can be monitored 24x7 by Moby’s security monitoring center.

“The real estate industry consists of many professional organizations whose members frequently find themselves working alone, in a new neighborhood, at night, with an unknown client, every day of the week,” says Conal Campbell, Director of Alliances for Moby. “Most of us don’t face that type of work environment or those types of risks, and we are pleased to be working with innovative organizations like MRIS that are doing whatever they can to make all aspects of selling a home as safe as possible.”

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For further information please contact:
Candice Stankus, MRIS | [email protected]

Tina McCormack Beaty, C.Fox Communications | [email protected]

About Moby

Moby is a location-sharing and alerting service for staying connected with the people who matter to you.  Moby users can privately and easily share their location with trusted friends, family members or colleagues from their smartphone. Requesting help from trusted parties or our professional monitoring center requires only the touch of a button. Moby is available in the U.S. and Canada on the iPhone and a wide range of BlackBerry devices, with support for Android coming soon. Moby is brought to you by the team at Contigo Systems, Inc., leaders in GPS application development since 2002.  For more information please visit www.mymoby.com

For further information please contact:
Rob Goehring, VP of Marketing |  [email protected] |   (604) 683-3106 x 223