{"id":2086,"date":"2007-10-24T06:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2007-10-24T09:38:44","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T16:38:44","slug":"when-all-you-have-is-a-hammer-disintermediate-the-bums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2086\/when-all-you-have-is-a-hammer-disintermediate-the-bums\/","title":{"rendered":"When all you have is a hammer — disintermediate the bums!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I live in an amazing world, which is to say a world by which I am continuously amazed, without boundary or graduation.<\/p>\n

Here’s an example: I cannot for the life of me understand why National Association of Realtors President Pat Combs has not called me personally to ask me to come to Las Vegas for the convention to tell the NAR what it’s getting wrong.<\/p>\n

Now you may think that’s an amazing hubris on my part, but in fact I am the obvious candidate for the job. Redfin.com’s Glenn Kelman is the only plausible alternative, but he is too much at odds with traditional real estate to qualify. I, on the other hand, am — on paper at least — the pot-bellied poster-child of the NAR — GRI, ABR, CRS the hard way. Add to that that I have spent many hundreds of hours detailing what’s wrong with the NAR, and have built a national platform from with to promulgate those arguments and, from my point of view — from Planet Cluetrain — the invitation should have been forthcoming months ago.<\/p>\n

But there my amazement does not end. For, upon receipt of such an invitation, I would have to decide what to do about it. It wouldn’t be an easy choice. I think I might love to do it — on my birthday, no less — particularly if the audience were very hostile. But I don’t see that there could be any enduring benefit to it. If Pat Combs had ever even heard of the Cluetrain, she wouldn’t have any need to hear from me.<\/p>\n

A nicer way, and I could do this easily enough, would be to go in and talk about the exciting world of Web 2.0 — and it seems likely to me that someone will be doing just that at some breakout session or another. And this will be just as stupid and pointless as the Inman BloggerDoggles, where earnest, well-intentioned people try to talk about community while a horde of congenital note-takers scribbles down tips on how to fake sincerity to snag more leads.<\/p>\n

“The world sorts itself out” is what Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I live in an amazing world, which is to say a world by which I am continuously amazed, without boundary or graduation. 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