{"id":10334,"date":"2009-11-17T13:04:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T20:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10334"},"modified":"2009-11-17T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T18:17:56","slug":"further-thoughts-mostly-non-thoughts-on-rpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10334\/further-thoughts-mostly-non-thoughts-on-rpr\/","title":{"rendered":"Further thoughts — mostly non-thoughts — on RPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reacting to John Rowles’ post<\/a>, Jim Duncan has been talking about the RPR idea for years, and I read a little more about it today, having been tipped over the weekend by Tom Johnson. My take: Yawn.<\/p>\n

RPR is not the generals fighting the last war, but the war before that. Apparently, the NAR still<\/em> believes that the added value of real estate representation comes from hoarding data. RPR is their attempt to put a new fence around the data, having let the last set of barriers fall to Realtor.com and to IDX.<\/p>\n

It’s twice funny to me, because not only is that war already well won — by the consumer — so is the true last war, the Battle of the Realty.bots. After all of this chatter, none of this shit has turned out to mean anything in real life.<\/p>\n

I mean nothing.<\/em> I’m convinced by now that no one who does not actually represent buyers and sellers has any clue about what is going on in the real estate market. We don’t search for listings — our clients do — and our position is stronger than ever. We post our listings wherever we can — and our position is stronger than ever.<\/p>\n

I’m no friend to any restraint or restriction on trade, but buying or selling a home is a lot<\/em> more complicated than it was four years ago. Our clients don’t need flashy web sites, they need agents who know how to navigate the shoals of the transaction.<\/p>\n

RPR, MLS, VOW, IDX — all of this goes away when we do away with the co-broke. In the mean time, it’s deck chairs on the Titanic, at best, one more dipshit time-wasting “tool” to mask sales-call reluctance.<\/p>\n

Notes for the grunts on the ground:<\/p>\n

1. Motivated buyers and sellers will not go through a middleman in the early phases of their search. This is 1974-style thinking from the NAR.<\/p>\n

2. Motivated buyers and sellers don’t care how they found you. They care about what they found: Do you know your shit? Can you deliver the product? Is your word any good?<\/p>\n

3. Whether or not the information you Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reacting to John Rowles’ post, Jim Duncan has been talking about the RPR idea for years, and I read a little more about it today, having been tipped over the weekend by Tom Johnson. My take: Yawn. RPR is not the generals fighting the last war, but the war before that. 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