{"id":11599,"date":"2010-03-20T16:46:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T23:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11599"},"modified":"2010-03-20T16:46:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T23:46:56","slug":"so-theres-this-huge-interent-scandal-at-the-nar-except-there-are-no-details-about-why-its-a-scandal-and-the-researchers-behind-the-claims-are-keeping-their-names-secret-want-to-know-more-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11599\/so-theres-this-huge-interent-scandal-at-the-nar-except-there-are-no-details-about-why-its-a-scandal-and-the-researchers-behind-the-claims-are-keeping-their-names-secret-want-to-know-more-a\/","title":{"rendered":"So there’s this huge interent scandal at the NAR, except there are no details about why it’s a scandal, and the “researchers” behind the claims are keeping their names secret. Want to know more? All you have to do is cough up twenty bucks a month."},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you want potent evidence that the #RTB movement has nothing to do with actually raising standards of service and care among Realtors? The organizers of the so-called Raising The Bar push did not try to enlist our support here, even though BloodhoundBlog is by far the loudest voice on the net on the subject of real estate professionals bringing better value to consumers.<\/p>\n

In the same respect, I am deeply suspicious of putative anti-NAR movements that do not contact us. This is the philosophical home of the idea of supplanting the NAR. Doing anything to undermine the real estate vampire cartel without us is a non-starter.<\/p>\n

So I didn’t know, at first, what to make of NARScandal.com<\/a>, a web site that spammed me this afternoon. I tried reading the articles, but they’re all implication with no actual details. The word “scandal” is thrown about liberally, but I saw no evidence of anything even remotely like a scandal on the site.<\/p>\n

As an example, the implication is that RPR is some kind of evil scheme concocted by arch-villains like Dale Stinton — who goes about cleverly camouflaged as a fat old dotard to confound his enemies. I’m a beta tester for RPR, and I can tell you with confidence that RPR is reasonably interesting as yet another Realty.bot and extremely boring as the lynchpin of a conspiracy plot. Do not ever expect me to say anything good about the NAR, but RPR, for what I’ve seen of it, is tapioca in technicolor, no threat to anyone, not even to Zillow or Trulia.<\/p>\n

So where’s the scandal? Moreover, who is the scandal-monger? I dug all through the site — and its whois record — and could not find anyone willing to stand up on his hind legs and claim to be the creator of the site or the author of all the going-nowhere “expos\u00e9s.” One could argue that Stinton and other NAR poohbahs have a libel claim, except that nothing potentially libelous — or even interesting — is published at the site.<\/p>\n

So I kept digging and finally came to this:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Of course…<\/p>\n

The NAR is a criminal conspiracy Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you want potent evidence that the #RTB movement has nothing to do with actually raising standards of service and care among Realtors? The organizers of the so-called Raising The Bar push did not try to enlist our support here, even though BloodhoundBlog is by far the loudest voice on the net on the subject […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-supplanting-the-nar","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1870,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1870\/burn-down-the-mission-elton-john-reads-the-tumbleweed-manifesto-to-the-national-association-of-realtors\/","url_meta":{"origin":11599,"position":0},"title":"Burn Down the Mission: Elton John reads the Tumbleweed Manifesto to the National Association of Realtors","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I'll have more later, but of all the many reasons the NAR deserves to be disintermediated, perhaps the simplest and most obvious is that these congenital retards cannot catch the frolickin' Cluetrain. \u00a0More viewpoints, pro and con, on supplanting the NAR: < ?php c2c_get_recent_posts(9999, \"%post_URL%\", '30'); ?> Technorati Tags: disintermediation,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Marketing"","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1869,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1869\/supplanting-the-national-association-of-realtors-will-turn-it-into-a-toothless-vampire-overnight\/","url_meta":{"origin":11599,"position":1},"title":"Supplanting the National Association of Realtors will turn it into a toothless vampire overnight","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The Minnesota Association of Realtors went on another foot-shooting expedition yesterday, again calling for paid-up members of the statewide trade group to quit the business so other paid-up members can earn more money. 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