The idea that the secret power of Realtors is control of the MLS is funny, but funnier still — for now at least — are these goofy alleged alternatives to the Realtor’s way of identifying candidate homes for buyers.<\/p>\n
We have a searchBot running in the Arizona Regional Multiple Listings Service to find our next home. We’re not actively searching, with a burning urge to move. But we know what we want, and, should it turn up, we may take the leap. This is not terribly likely. We are professionals, after all. 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Enter the folks from Incredible Agent<\/a> with a solution. What if, every time you ran across some dubious candidate home at some dubious Realty.bot, you were to race over to HomeHugg.com<\/a> to leave that home a Hugg, which is analogous to a Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"