{"id":1954,"date":"2007-09-20T21:16:10","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T04:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1954"},"modified":"2007-09-21T09:44:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T16:44:45","slug":"herd-dinosaurs-not-me-but-what-should-we-do-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1954\/herd-dinosaurs-not-me-but-what-should-we-do-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Herd dinosaurs? Not me, but what should we do instead?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Responding at some length to a comment from Charles Woodall<\/a>:<\/p>\n

> Changing the real estate business in the grassroots effort you suggest would be a slow process as well.<\/p>\n

I know you’re not joking with me, but are you aware of how quickly the real estate industry is changing right now? None<\/i> of this is happening through the NAR cartel.<\/p>\n

> it would literally take thousands or ten of thousands of people to make it happen.<\/p>\n

Shazam! Here we are. BloodhoundBlog is just a part of the changes taking place, but we talk to tens of thousands of unique souls every month.<\/p>\n

> We already have a powerful trade organization in place, so getting a few hundred people involved would be easier, in my humble opinion.<\/p>\n

You’ve already talked about how it was virtually impossible for you to make an obviously necessary change. The NAR exists to milk agents, consumers and the taxpayers, in that order. It will not even try<\/i> to do anything else until it is much too late to make any difference.<\/p>\n

> While your thoughts are noble, and I agree on several points, until leadership in REALTOR associations on the local and state level want to move into the 21st century, it just isn\u2019t going to happen.<\/p>\n

It’s not going to happen.<\/p>\n

> Folks such as yourself getting involved will be required.<\/p>\n

First, people like me will never get involved with the NAR. I personally am deeply philosophically opposed to what I consider to be the criminal objectives of the NAR, but even someone less philosophically fastidious is going to achieve far better results by improving his own mind, rather than wasting vast amounts of time trying to herd mental dinosaurs toward a future they despise and think they can avoid.<\/p>\n

There are actually three issues that you are raising.<\/p>\n

The first is that I — or someone like me — would be profited by participating in any sort of committee work, even if it didn’t involve lobbying the state to point its guns at innocent people. Assuming a committee can learn anything at all, it cannot learn any faster than its slowest member, and committees seem to me Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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