this post<\/a> for example. <\/p>\nI am officially tired of people crying foul about Zillow’s reviews. Not because I liked them, but because if you did not want Zillow, you should not have BUILT them (Zillow). And make no mistake, we (collectively as REALTORS who sent our listings to them) built them.<\/p>\n
We built REALTOR.com and got pencil sharpenered. (old Russell Shaw reference that you need to Google – grin)<\/p>\n
Many of us warned the industry that when you supplant your own online presence by giving your online assets **cough**listings**cough** to others, that one day the chickens would come home to roost and they would do something with that presence (like charge you, review you, sell you zip codes, sell ads on their site to people you find objectionable,etc) that you might or might not agree with.<\/p>\n
Whether people like the person they woke up with in the morning is irrelevant. The fact is, they found them attractive at 2 am. <\/p>\n
You can always vote with your feet. <\/p>\n
So note to real estate industry: If you don’t like reviews, do something about it. If you are ok with it, be sure that you are ready for more of the same. More will be coming.<\/p>\n
Note to Kris Berg: Beautifully written. (seriously). Merry Christmas to you and yours. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
(Further observation…I think the reviews are a pretty lame idea and my guess is that they will die under their own irrelevant and easily spammable weight, but time will tell.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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