{"id":13318,"date":"2010-09-30T09:26:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T16:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13318"},"modified":"2010-09-30T09:26:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T16:26:35","slug":"lorena-bobbit-part-time-hairdresser-and-real-estate-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13318\/lorena-bobbit-part-time-hairdresser-and-real-estate-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorena Bobbit: Part Time Hairdresser and Real Estate Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am at the Council of MLS&#8217;s meeting in Chicago on behalf of a client, and it is surreal. How is it possible, in the age of Craigslist, that it takes this many people to manage a relatively straightforward database?<\/p>\n<p>I just watched Stefan Swanepoel tell the MLS people, to his credit, that it is in their best interest to advocate raising the bar of professionalism in real estate, a subject that has been prevalent on this blog for as long as I&#8217;ve been reading it.<\/p>\n<p>Its hard to see the MLS and RE Assoc. people taking that message to heart, considering that raising the bar = fewer dues paying members, but if you are going to tilt and windmills, you might as well go for it and speak truthiness to power, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the problem of standards is no joke &#8212; except that it is.<\/p>\n<p>Good Morning America was on over breakfast at the hotel today, and they started a new &#8220;Where are they now?&#8221; segment with Lorena Bobbit &#8212; remember her?<\/p>\n<p>At about 2:49 in the story, the reporter tells us that Lorena makes her living now &#8220;..as a part time hairdresser &#8212; and real estate agent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As John Bobbit once surely said &#8212; &#8220;Ouch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/counters.gigya.com\/wildfire\/IMP\/CXNID=2000002.0NXC\/bT*xJmx*PTEyODU4NjA5MzcwMTUmcHQ9MTI4NTg2MzQ1NjgwMiZwPTEyNTg*MTEmZD1BQkNOZXdzX1NGUF9Mb2NrZV9FbWJlZCZn\/PTImbz1iZmUxZjY5Y2QxYzg*MGYxOGRhODU1N2FlMjNlMDU4ZiZvZj*w.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" \/><object id=\"ABCESNWID\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"344\" height=\"278\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"configUrl=http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/sfp\/embedPlayerConfig&amp;configId=406732&amp;clipId=11764792&amp;showId=11764034&amp;gig_lt=1285860937015&amp;gig_pt=1285863456802&amp;gig_g=2\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/assets\/player\/walt2.6\/flash\/SFP_Walt.swf\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"ABCESNWID\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am at the Council of MLS&#8217;s meeting in Chicago on behalf of a client, and it is surreal. How is it possible, in the age of Craigslist, that it takes this many people to manage a relatively straightforward database? I just watched Stefan Swanepoel tell the MLS people, to his credit, that it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1859,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1859\/voting-for-this-weeks-peoples-choice-award-is-open\/","url_meta":{"origin":13318,"position":0},"title":"Voting for this week&#8217;s People&#8217;s Choice Award is open","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Another not-very-short list of posts. 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