{"id":14584,"date":"2011-05-10T11:05:36","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T18:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14584"},"modified":"2011-05-10T11:14:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T18:14:46","slug":"how-does-the-national-association-of-realtors-love-me-they-sent-me-an-evaluation-so-i-could-count-the-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14584\/how-does-the-national-association-of-realtors-love-me-they-sent-me-an-evaluation-so-i-could-count-the-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"How does the National Association of Realtors love me? They sent me an evaluation so I could count the ways."},"content":{"rendered":"

I appeared by videoconference at the National Association of Realtors Association Executives convention in March. At the time, I made note of my remarks in a comment to Teri Lussier’s first post on the NAR’s latest anti-consumer money-grab:<\/a><\/p>\n

I spoke by videoconference to the NAR Association Executives conclave on Monday. I held nothing back, patiently explaining to them that legislation is crime — using force to induce an outcome that would not have occurred without the imposition of force.<\/p>\n

I explained that a legislature can do nothing in a free market except harm, and that the American economy is by now essentially a vast mutual-vampirism cult: Each one of is sucking the lifeblood out of his neighbor’s neck, and each one of us is being sucked dry by his next neighbor. Taking a death-grip on the obvious, I patiently explained that this cannot but result in pandemic disaster.<\/p>\n

Instead, I said, if the National Association of Realtors were to come to be as zealous about private property rights as the National Rifle Association is about firearms ownership rights, I would be proud to call myself a member.<\/p>\n

As you might expect, the reaction was subdued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bob Bemis, CEO of ARMLS, intimated to me that there is video of the presentation somewhere, but I have not seen this. But yesterday there came by snail-mail a three-page evaluation of the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I think it would be fair to say that I made an impression. I knew going in that I would be telling them exactly what they did not want to hear, so I have to commend the people who made comments for their forbearance of my effrontery.<\/p>\n

Here’s my take: What they don’t want to hear is precisely what they need most to hear. It’s not reflected in the evaluation, but a very important idea I took up with them is this one:<\/p>\n

What happens if someone comes along and resolves to do real estate brokerage for free?<\/p>\n

I’ve pointed out many times that Zillow’s “make me move” feature is brokerage: The introduction of buyer to seller. This is not affected by the real estate regulation machine since the act of Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I appeared by videoconference at the National Association of Realtors Association Executives convention in March. At the time, I made note of my remarks in a comment to Teri Lussier’s first post on the NAR’s latest anti-consumer money-grab: I spoke by videoconference to the NAR Association Executives conclave on Monday. I held nothing back, patiently […]<\/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":[4,6,5,30,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-supplanting-the-nar","10":"category-technology","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14354,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14354\/whats-the-best-thing-the-national-association-of-realtors-can-do-for-the-american-economy-it-could-drop-dead-but-it-wont-so-heres-how-you-can-kill-it-instead\/","url_meta":{"origin":14584,"position":0},"title":"What’s the best thing the National Association of Realtors can do for the American economy? 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