{"id":1924,"date":"2007-09-13T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T16:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2007-09-15T10:26:18","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T17:26:18","slug":"supplanting-the-nar-can-we-get-to-a-better-quality-of-real-estate-representation-by-way-of-the-licensing-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1924\/supplanting-the-nar-can-we-get-to-a-better-quality-of-real-estate-representation-by-way-of-the-licensing-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Supplanting the NAR: Can we get to a better quality of real estate representation by way of the licensing laws?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coming back to this, with my apologies for the delay. I realized I was never going to have time for the whole feast at one sitting, so I resolved to take it on one bite at a time.<\/p>\n

I want to examine some of the ideas and objections people have raised with respect to supplanting the NAR with a more rigorous predictor of quality representation. And: I’m being as vague as I can because, while I think we’re all interested in hearing specific ideas — or caveats about those specific ideas — I don’t think we’re anywhere near ready to erect or enact anything. In construction terms, we are not building, drafting plans, designing or even site planning. At this stage, we are talking about whether or not to build anything at all.<\/p>\n

For what it’s worth, my natural inclination is to do nothing. For more than a year I’ve been talking about the kinds of things we do to obviate our competition. We get better day by day and they’re all standing around with their thumbs… duly engaged. Our reputation grows with every home run we hit. In the market niche we farm, we don’t need a third-party imprimatur of quality. Res ipse loquitur.<\/i><\/p>\n

However: If we argue that there are too many would-be real estate practitioners, that many of these folks have much too little training and experience, and that buyers and sellers would have a safer and more satisfying experience if they learned to seek out higher-quality practitioners, then there is an argument to be made for creating something like an Underwriters’ Laboratories rating organization for real estate agents.<\/p>\n

One of the commenters to my original post on this subject<\/a> wrote:<\/p>\n

If we want to eliminate half the licensees just raise the barriers to entry\u2026require an apprenticeship\u2026or raise the licensing fee\u2026or make the licensing test harder\u2026or make the continuing education harder\u2026or all of the above. These steps alone will raise the quality of service in the industry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These are ideas we hear all the time, of course. So why are they never ratified in law?<\/p>\n

The real estate licensing laws are controlled by the brokers, Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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