You know how it is. The NAR had to get itself sued to death first. Inasmuch as nothing is actually changing – adamantly, nothing – that works out to be a decent deal. Rotting giants fall hard, but sic semper tyrannosauris, as we have said all along.
Here’s what’s what: Starting in 2006 or so, BloodhoundBlog started debating ways to make the contradictions of our convoluted commission scheme more transparent and fairer to both buyers and sellers.
I ended up arguing for an idea I called The Divorced Real Estate Commission. If you click the link, you can read an eBook I wrote on the subject. Or you could just read the news from FannieMae and FreddieMac, who are this week implementing the idea I came up with seventeen years ago.
Seventeen years… And how many billions will the NAR have pissed away fighting a rear-guard action to get to where BloodhoundBlog was seventeen years ago…?
This amounts to a brag on BloodhoundBlog’s part. Out of seventy-ish contributors, only Brian Brady and I have written here lately – not very much and not very lately. Our whole server gets hammered when I blog here too frequently. But the blog of the dawgs endures, as witness. Because there is ALWAYS something to howl about.
