{"id":13637,"date":"2010-11-16T09:20:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T16:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13637"},"modified":"2010-11-16T11:53:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T18:53:47","slug":"looking-for-a-realtor-designation-that-really-means-something-how-about-this-too-outspoken-for-redfin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13637\/looking-for-a-realtor-designation-that-really-means-something-how-about-this-too-outspoken-for-redfin\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a Realtor designation that really means something? How about this? &#8220;Too Outspoken For Redfin.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redfin.com\/real-estate-agents\/gregscathleenc\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/RedfinGoodbyeLook.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"12\"\/><\/a>Redfin.com is in the long, slow process of firing us from their referral partnership program. I&#8217;ve known this was going to happen since last Tuesday. It&#8217;s what I was writing about in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13563\" target=\"_blank\">most influential voice in the on-line world of real estate<\/a> post:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They piss and moan to each other about me behind my back.\n<\/li>\n<li>They campaign with each other to try to damage my interests.\n<\/li>\n<li>They pester contributors here to try get them to abandon BloodhoundBlog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The actual <em>coup de gr&#226;ce<\/em> hasn&#8217;t happened yet, but Glenn Kelman placed a sweet call to me last night to apologize to me, as a friend, for not countermanding the bold policy initiatives of his middle managers.<\/p>\n<p>This is nothing to me, for a lot of reasons. I grew up hiding from my poor long-suffering mother, so she wouldn&#8217;t have the opportunity to tell me what to do and not do. I spent the first half of my working life hiding from my employers, doing truly remarkable work, like a cobbler&#8217;s elf, after the bosses went home. This is why I don&#8217;t have a job now, and haven&#8217;t had one for decades. I know from experience that if I have anything that looks at all like a job, sooner or later, my fated role will be to serve as the rag doll in someone else&#8217;s self-destructive fit. I actually felt that gloomy foreboding twice, on the way into Redfin&#8217;s referral plan, so it&#8217;s not as if I can claim to have been taken by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a stupid thing to do, of course, but, while I&#8217;ve been fired several times in my life, I&#8217;ve never been fired for a good reason. Cathleen and I responded rapidly to every inquiry Redfin sent us, even though many of the referrals they passed along were from loosely motivated, suspicious folks with serious qualification issues. I tried to explain to them that, even though I sell a lot of cheap houses, I&#8217;m selling most of them to millionaires, while Cathleen almost always works with very well-heeled homeowners. That entreaty hit a corporate policy wall, with the result that any financially well-qualified buyers Redfin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13637\/looking-for-a-realtor-designation-that-really-means-something-how-about-this-too-outspoken-for-redfin\/#more-13637\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redfin.com is in the long, slow process of firing us from their referral partnership program. I&#8217;ve known this was going to happen since last Tuesday. It&#8217;s what I was writing about in my most influential voice in the on-line world of real estate post: They piss and moan to each other about me behind my [&hellip;]<\/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":[24,212,6,5,27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","10":"category-redfincom","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":281,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/281\/if-bill-clinton-ran-redfincom\/","url_meta":{"origin":13637,"position":0},"title":"If Bill Clinton ran Redfin.com . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Of the two \"innovative\" cowbird brokerages discussed in this morning's New York Times, the stronger of the two is BuySideInc.com. 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