RISCO Partners, LLC

Who We Are

With over 40 years Real Estate business support experience between them, Warren and Jon Koeller are here to assist you with your MLS, Lock Box or office administration system.

A bit of RISCO history provided by Warren:

RISCO Company History
Date	Occurrence
Spring, 1978	First Meeting with Johnson County (KS) Board of Realtor' leadership.
Summer, 1979	Johnson County agrees to have RISCO (then EBE) write some programs to handle their MLS needs.
Fall, 1979	First RISCO MLS system installed.
Summer, 1980	RISCO incorporated as Realty Information Systems Company (RISCO). Until this date, RISCO was a division of Electronic Business Equipment, Inc. (EBE). Original ownership consisted of Jerry Cohen, Warren Koeller, and Dunigan Trust (a family Trust located in Abilene, Texas.
Fall, 1981	RISCO entered into an agreement with National Association of Realtors (NAR) whereby NAR sold RISCO MLS system. This agreement lasted for 3 years, ending Fall, 1984.
Winter, 1984	RISCO moved into its first headquarters, merged with BE Leasing, Inc. (computer leasing company) and Garry Wright joined ownership group.
Fall, 1986	RISCO bought out Dunigan Trust's interest, Howard Jacobson and Steve Muehlberger joined ownership group.
Summer, 1987	Formed RISCO Publishing, Inc. and started printing MLS Books.
Spring, 1988	Moved to first Company owned building (10,400 sq. ft.).
Winter, 1994	Realty Information Systems Company and RISCO Publishing merged and named the surviving company "RISCO".
Summer, 1995	Formed RISCO Lockbox, Inc. to sell used and refurbished lockboxes, located in El Paso, Texas.
Spring, 1997	Purchased Compulist Corporation, a competing MLS company located in Macomb, Illinois.
Fall, 1997	Moved RISCO Lockbox and Compulist operations to new Lenexa facility (33,600 sq. ft.).
Spring, 1998	Moved RISCO operations to new (current) facility.
Summer, 1998	RISCO acquires the assets of Multacc corporation and moves the PCR and Redikey lock box systems from Torrance, CA to Lenexa.
Fall, 1998	Signed Alliance Agreement with Yardi, Inc. (a competing MLS Company located in Santa Barbara, California) to convert all their existing MLS customers, at customer's option, to RISCO MLS system.
Winter, 1998	Company Vice Presidents Grant Wright, Tim Harrison, Mark Brown, Richard Jacobson, become RISCO shareholders.
Spring, 2000	Sold all companies to iProperty.com (start up company located in Bloomington/Indianapolis, Indiana).
May, 2001	Sold RISCO to Fidelity National Financial (The industry's largest provider of title insurance and diversified real estate-related services, located in Irvine, California).  Interlogix acquires the lock box division, with operations remaining at the Lenexa office.  Due to lack of funding RIsco Lock Box loses national distributorship of the Shur Lok.
Feb., 2002	Interlogix is purchased by GE.  Risco Lock Box continues operations in Lenexa Location.
June, 2006	GE closes Lenexa location and consolidates Risco Lock Box operations with Supra operations in Salem, OR.  Bruce Draper & Jon Koeller continue as home based employees.
June, 2008	Bruce Draper & Jon Koeller are terminated as part of a large cost reduction effort by GE.
October, 2008	Risco Partners begins as a web based business.