What is NAR’s Gateway?
The other day, I posted about an article in RealTrends written by Jeremy Conaway, who said: During the Washington meetings, there seemed to be some...
MLS History Video
Inspired in part by Greg Robertson’s post on Top 10 Vendor Breakthroughs and also the Clareity MLS history party I missed a few years ago,...
Back to the Future 2
Two days ago, I posted about an article that appeared in 1996 regarding NAR’s failed RIN efforts. Yesterday, eerily on cue, a user on RealTown...
Back to the Future for MLSs
I was doing some research today and ran across this article, which has some very interesting quotes: As in other aspects of Internet life, the...
Fathers Know Best
About five years ago at the NAR mid-year convention in D.C., I was chit chatting with Warren Koeller (one of the founders of Risco MLS...
Expunging Agent From The MLS System and Other Legislative Follies
Several years ago, we had to comb through the system and remove the word “agent” wherever it appeared. So, Listing Agent became Listing Member, Selling...
Implementing Revolutions
A few weeks ago at the NAR mid-year convention in D.C., there was quite a bit of buzz about the announcement that the NAR is...
Credit Where Due
Bernice Ross posts over at Inman Blog today that Saul Klein explained at the NAR mid-year conference what Greg Swann has been saying for months:...
Mystery Week
Here’s another mini-mystery. One of our clients forwarded me a copy of the following e-mail he received this morning: From: “MLS Survey” <info@mlssurvey.com> Date: May...
Mark Lesswing Is Everywhere
Check out Pat Kitano’s summary on the Transparent Real Estate blog of the key note speech NAR’s CTO Mark Lesswing gave at a tech fair...