Since When Is Justice About Propaganda?
The Department of Justice has posted a new rant against REALTORS. I used to practice law and had many cases with the SEC and a...
Good Standards Break Monopolies, Not Make Them
The discussions across the country about consolidating MLSs rages on. In some areas, however, the focus appears to be more on who leads the consolidation...
Agent Decline?
There’s a running joke in our office about my repeated failure to predict the beginning of the downturn in the number of agents. I’ve been...
Not Whining, Really
Glenn Roberts’ article is out and I’m thankful to Glenn for writing about the Future of MLS Wiki, as I hope it fosters discussion about...
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
I love Clint Eastwood movies, and so really enjoyed reading Robbie Paplin’s recent post A Fistful of Feeds, riffing on the MLS data syndication issue....
Comments on CAR’s MLS Working Group Statement of Principles
Mark Flavin comments today on the Statement of Principles by the CAR MLS Working Group, and I’ve added my own thoughts by commenting on the...
Interviewed by Glenn Roberts from Inman About the Future of MLS Wiki
I just got off the phone with Glenn Roberts from Inman News, who called to learn more about the FBS Blog and the Future of...
Future of MLS Wiki
I meant to get more content into the wiki before announcing it, but Jim Duncan’s post today about the NAR’s MLS Presidential Advisory Group prompted...
Jaison Freed Plays Vegas!
Jaison Freed, FBS’s lead RETS engineer, will be on a panel for Creating a RETS Powered Broker Website at the NAR Convention in Vegas this...
RETS Governance Work Group Recommends RESO
The recommendation of the RETS governance work group was posted yesterday to RETS.org. This recommendation for a new Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) is...
Pre-RETS Reading List
Here’s what I’m reading before the RETS conference this week: The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented The Constitution, by David O. Stewart. Code...
You Must Read This, If You’re Interested In The Future Of MLS On The Web
If you’re interested in MLS and want to see where MLS crosses into web 2.0, you must read A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy...