{"id":227,"date":"2006-08-20T12:49:57","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T19:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2006-08-20T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T19:50:32","slug":"what-is-not-broken-in-real-life-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/227\/what-is-not-broken-in-real-life-real-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"What is NOT broken in real-life real estate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing from a comment from Ardell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

You live in a world where everyone pretty much HAS to be a Realtor to sell residential real estate, as I did for most of my career.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That may be true right now, I don’t know for sure. I know there are non-NAR members who have access to ARMLS, but I don’t know that any of them are also real estate licensees. My expectation, about which more below, is that the AAR would cave at once if a non-NAR-member licensee applied for full access to ARMLS — if they raised any objection at all.<\/p>\n

I have nothing against Realtors at all. I do have something against buyers not having the right to a basic conversation about compensation the same as sellers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But of course they do have this right. The conversation might not go very far with most agents, but we advertise the idea at the top of our home page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I do have a something against buyers being “procured” for the benefit of the seller.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I do, too, but buyers have to be willing to bring complaints when they are abused. Nothing cures bad behavior like seven-figure judgments for agency violations.<\/p>\n

I do have something against an organization who has not taken a stand on this issue to the benefit of the buyer consumer, and who still feels the seller pays the fee after all these years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The NAR is sclerotic. This is not news. The important point is that there is no obstacle to individual practitioners and brokers doing better.<\/p>\n

Here’s an example: We had an Article 16<\/a> complaint earlier this year. In the neighborhoods we farm, we broadcast our announcements — open house invitations, sold cards, etc. This work is done by independent contractors of a subcontractor, and both because training is difficult to effect and because I did not want to experience errors of discretion, I interpreted Article 16.2 in the broadest possible terms: They were to skip only houses with “No Soliciting” or “No Trespassing” signs. They had no knowledge of the MLS, and they should not make any presumption about the presence or absence of real estate marketing Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing from a comment from Ardell: You live in a world where everyone pretty much HAS to be a Realtor to sell residential real estate, as I did for most of my career. That may be true right now, I don’t know for sure. 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