{"id":2120,"date":"2007-10-29T21:48:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T04:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2007-10-29T21:50:32","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T04:50:32","slug":"sell-your-home-get-you-a-loan-do-your-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2120\/sell-your-home-get-you-a-loan-do-your-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sell Your Home? Get You a Loan? Do Your Taxes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have no idea if published Letters to the Editor are covered by copyright protection – if they are I will need to stop doing this. If someone were to suggest that there was a pattern<\/em> to the types of letters Inman News chooses to publish (say, for example, that I’ve<\/u> made assertions like that in the past) a person wouldn’t have to wait very long to find examples of that pattern. This one is from today:\"Mars<\/p>\n

Higher commissions are ‘anti-consumer’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Are semantics clouding the real issue? When you have thousands of real estate agents competing for a limited amount of business this is construed as competitive, just as Realogy and RE\/MAX suggest. However, this does not equate to competitive real estate models, which should — but do not — benefit consumers.<\/p>\n

In this agent’s opinion, the issue is not whether there is competition between agents to obtain business — it is the competition as it relates to commissions that have these companies on edge. This should be considered “anti-consumer,” not necessarily an anti-competitive issue, which is simply a case of semantics.<\/p>\n

These companies readily admit and demonstrate that they will do and say almost anything to thwart competition with regard to commission dollars.<\/p>\n

How many times do they have to say that they are worried about the pressures of lower commissions? It is well documented and stated by these companies that they spend inordinate amounts of money to attract business, thereby placing them in a position where they cannot compete with other models that use pricing (commissions) to compete with the “anti-consumer” real estate models that hire thousands of agents and spend millions of dollars to obtain market dominance.<\/p>\n

Ironically, these “anti-consumer” companies are honest about the reasons they continue to frustrate a decline in commission rates. They cannot “compete” within these confines. This is about commissions, not competition to attract business.<\/p>\n

What the public should consider is whether they want to do business with companies that knowingly take advantage of their mere size as opposed to finding ways to lower the costs and becoming more efficient when it comes to actually selling homes. Besides higher Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have no idea if published Letters to the Editor are covered by copyright protection – if they are I will need to stop doing this. If someone were to suggest that there was a pattern to the types of letters Inman News chooses to publish (say, for example, that I’ve made assertions like that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[4,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-realty-reality","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2102,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2102\/bruce-hahn-writes-another-letter-to-inman-news\/","url_meta":{"origin":2120,"position":0},"title":"Bruce Hahn Writes Another Letter To Inman News","author":"Russell Shaw","date":"October 24, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Bruce Hahn writes another letter to Inman News. 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