{"id":138,"date":"2006-07-26T18:40:47","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T01:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2006-07-26T22:22:27","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T05:22:27","slug":"the-elemental-aimlessness-of-mls-lessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/138\/the-elemental-aimlessness-of-mls-lessness\/","title":{"rendered":"The elemental aimlessness of MLS-lessness . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Citing an article from the Boston Globe<\/i><\/a>, the Real Estate Investing For Real bog insists that<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There should be a system where anyone, real estate agents, FSBOs, etc., can list or search for properties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Great news! Such a tool exists. It’s called the classified section of the newspaper. Not so cheap to list, but searching costs around half-a-buck. Even better, CraigsList.com<\/a> is free in most markets.<\/p>\n

The good news is, the writer already has what he wants — in vast abundance: CraigsList.com, Trulia.com, PropSmart.com, et infinitely cetera. The bad news is, the writer already has what he wants — vastly abundant free or nearly-free listing portals, each of which has its own data structure and feed format. The geniuses who are bringing us all this cleverly-designed white noise don’t actually understand the problems the MLS was created to solve: open listings and the difficulty of coordinating cooperation among agents from different brokerages. So what do we find on CraigsList.com, Trulia.com, PropSmart.com, et infinitely cetera? Open listings and no provision for coordinating cooperation among agents. O!, Brave New World, simultaneously disintermediated and reambiguated. It’s hard to regard this as an improvement.<\/p>\n

What the writer really wants is something very much like<\/i> the MLS, but without exclusive membership, without the mandatory unilateral offer of compensation and without the intellectual property rights of listing brokers. You could say he wants to eat his cake and still have it, but the sad part is, he just might get his wish. Even as loose as we are about internet businesses, I’m pretty sure the Feds would regard such a thing arising privately as collusion. But if the Feds ram it down our throats instead…<\/p>\n

The cure for what the writer thinks ails us might be a lot worse than the disease.
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Technorati Tags: arizona<\/a>, arizona real estate<\/a>, blogging<\/a>, phoenix<\/a>, phoenix real estate<\/a>, real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n

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Citing an article from the Boston Globe, the Real Estate Investing For Real bog insists that: There should be a system where anyone, real estate agents, FSBOs, etc., can list or search for properties. Great news! Such a tool exists. It’s called the classified section of the newspaper. 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