{"id":330,"date":"2006-09-13T16:45:08","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T23:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2006-09-13T16:52:07","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T23:52:07","slug":"cute-little-trulia-pleads-cant-we-share-the-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/330\/cute-little-trulia-pleads-cant-we-share-the-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Cute little Trulia pleads, “Can’t we share the hate?!?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Displeased, perhaps, that outfits like Redfin.com draw all the negative attention, Trulia Blog asks<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Does the MLS continue to believe that fascist dictatorships work?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Inasmuch as an MLS system is a mutually-voluntary membership organization composed of self-selected volunteers, each of whom voluntarily agrees to abide by a set of rules voluntarily established by the membership as a whole, it easy is to understand how Trulia Blog would mistake MLS systems for the second-most murderous branch of Totalitarian Socialism in history. They’re like twins!<\/p>\n

An MLS system is a club. Whatever bad things we might think to say about a club, a club is still far more benign than even the most benign of governments. Why? Because you can quit a club, where quitting a government is difficult at best, impossible at worst — and almost always fatal under Totalitarian Socialism. If you haven’t seen a huge pile of bodies stacked up behind the local MLS office — there’s a reason for that.<\/p>\n

There are three things you can do about a club you don’t like: 1. You can try to change it from within. 2. You can try to change it from without. 3. You can turn your back on it and up your own organization.<\/p>\n

I have had nothing but good things to say about Trulia.com so far, but after this stunt, I have this much to add: Trulia, up yours!
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Technorati Tags: blogging<\/a>, disintermediation<\/a>, real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n

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Displeased, perhaps, that outfits like Redfin.com draw all the negative attention, Trulia Blog asks: Does the MLS continue to believe that fascist dictatorships work? Inasmuch as an MLS system is a mutually-voluntary membership organization composed of self-selected volunteers, each of whom voluntarily agrees to abide by a set of rules voluntarily established by the membership […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[3,4,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-disintermediation","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8628,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8628\/truzilla-idx-na-rcom\/","url_meta":{"origin":330,"position":0},"title":"Truzilla IDX = N\/A R.Com?","author":"Ryan Hartman","date":"May 28, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"When I was looking into whether or not Realtor.com was publishing scrapable rss feeds based on searches a few weeks ago, I also took a look to see if Trulia was doing the same thing. 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