{"id":3862,"date":"2008-08-12T19:25:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T02:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2008-08-14T07:15:54","modified_gmt":"2008-08-14T14:15:54","slug":"the-mls-50-manifesto-everyone-working-in-hi-tech-real-estate-must-oppose-this-vicious-plan-with-every-fiber-in-your-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3862\/the-mls-50-manifesto-everyone-working-in-hi-tech-real-estate-must-oppose-this-vicious-plan-with-every-fiber-in-your-being\/","title":{"rendered":"The “MLS 5.0” Manifesto: Everyone working in hi-tech real estate must oppose this vicious plan with every fiber in your being"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Oh that the Roman people had but one neck, that I might cut it off at a blow!” –Caligula<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is the naked essence of Saul Klein’s so-called “MLS 5.0” proposal:<\/a><\/p>\n

The MLS of the future will bring a marketing service and benefit to the industry by being the single point of entry for listing data<\/em> and then, based upon the election of the broker, distribute that information to web portals, newspapers, even radio and television, handheld devices and applications.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The emphasis was in the original, which is a nice illustration of how much Klein trusts you not<\/em> to see what he’s up to.<\/p>\n

What does that sentence actually say?<\/p>\n

It says that Klein’s idealized “MLS of the Future” will be a national monopoly system controlled by real estate brokers and the NAR — to the immediate and permanent detriment of independent MLS systems and vendors, Web 2.0 listings aggregators and — most especially — individual real estate agents.<\/p>\n

What Klein is proposing, ignoring the presumed benefits to accrue to his own ventures, is to give the real estate industry one chokepoint, one bottleneck, so that the NAR can put a choke-chain around it.<\/p>\n

Who will control that “single point of entry for listing data”? The NAR.<\/p>\n

Who will control who can and cannot have access to listing data? The NAR.<\/p>\n

Who will have the entire real estate industry in a chokehold? The NAR.<\/p>\n

This is so diabolical, it makes me wonder if the fix is already in — if this evil plan is going to be rammed down our collective throats in November in Orlando.<\/p>\n

Let’s assume it is not. Klein’s proposal is an undiluted evil, and it is incumbent upon everyone working in hi-tech real estate to oppose this vicious plan with every fiber in your being.<\/p>\n

To say more is to gild the lily. I think Klein’s actual objective is to pull off another Realtor.com heist, to get the NAR to sell him<\/em> a national MLS monopoly. But the benefit to the NAR is obvious: With a national monopoly MLS system, brokers will once again have the power to bring their agents to heel. If you understand what it means Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Oh that the Roman people had but one neck, that I might cut it off at a blow!” –Caligula Here is the naked essence of Saul Klein’s so-called “MLS 5.0” proposal: The MLS of the future will bring a marketing service and benefit to the industry by being the single point of entry for listing […]<\/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":[24,29,5,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-group-therapy","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-supplanting-the-nar","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15946,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15946\/the-economist-asks-why-is-it-so-expensive-to-buy-or-sell-a-house-in-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":3862,"position":0},"title":"The Economist asks “Why is it so expensive to buy or sell a house in America?”","author":"John Rowles","date":"May 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This is in an article titled \"The great realtor rip-off\". 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