What Makes A Home Valuable?
Larry Cragun’s post today, called Unique Features Make Homes Valuable, makes me wonder whether effective listing data standards are possible. How do you describe that...
RETS Meeting Next Week
Next week Jaison Freed and I trek off to Austin for the spring RETS meetings. Up first on the agenda is a mammoth (almost all...
MLS 7.0 (re-post because I’m stupid)
I’m re-posting my MLS 7.0 post because, incredibly, I deleted the original. I started the post with my primary laptop but finished it with my...
The Dog Woke Me Up
When I wake up in the middle of the night, which is often, I have a bad habit of looking at the tablet PC I...
I Thought April Fool’s Day Was Over
Nobody said life was easy here in North Dakota. April 3rd!
Not another post on days on market!?
Yep, sorry. But maybe this post is different, because we write MLS software and need to try to accommodate the many diverging views. Wow, are...
Mapping Mayhem
We’re designing a new mapping module for our MLS software and one of the key design decisions we’re trying to make is how to handle...
More Numbers Play
Clareity Consulting released its 6th Annual MLS Customer Satisfaction Survey today. Matt Cohen from Clareity did an excellent job again this year and really went...
MLS Is More Than Technology
Yes, that’s right, FBS, a technology company, is saying that the MLS is much more than the technology we or others may provide. I’ll demonstrate...
Founders at Work
I like to read. After I finish a book (well, a non-fiction book), I usually write up a summary for future reference or publishing on...
Easy, Breezy, Cover Girl
In my posts on Raging Regionals, I suggested that MLSs should consider focusing on the RETS 2 listing data standards as a strong step (leap) toward a distributed...
Raging Regionals
In my last post, I outlined three developing possibilities for toppling the current structure of MLSs in the United States: (1) emergence of one of...