{"id":958,"date":"2007-01-28T02:04:51","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T09:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=958"},"modified":"2007-01-29T06:58:06","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T13:58:06","slug":"disintermediation-not-for-me-not-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/958\/disintermediation-not-for-me-not-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Disintermediation? Not For Me. Not Yet."},"content":{"rendered":"

I hated my last REALTOR?.<\/strong> Well, hate is a strong word. I don’t really know him well enough to hate him. But I’m sure if the sale had taken just one week longer, I would have known him just long enough to wish him all manner of ill will. I KNOW I hated the work he did. I hated even more the work he didn’t do. The story of my last home sale is a rant all in itself. (Yes, ARDELL<\/a>, I will write about it one day.) But that day is not today.<\/p>\n

Remember, I’m not a REALTOR? or a real estate agent.<\/strong> And before I got into the business I’m in now, I could NOT have told you the difference. I freely admit that I don’t know 1\/100th of what the other writers on this blog know about real estate or title or lending. I probably know more than your average consumer, at least you’d hope so, but I’m still a consumer.<\/p>\n

I just finished reading some of the writing on this blog and others about disintermediation.<\/strong> Greg Swann’s “Disintermediaton where? Oh, yeah…<\/a>” set me on a bit of a reading tear. Thanks, Greg. Just when I thought I’d get to bed early.<\/p>\n

Given how bad my last transaction was, you’d think I’d be the first to jump at the opportunity to sell my house on my own without the use of a “middleman” and use all the latest available technology to let me do that. You know, seller connecting directly with buyer. You’d be wrong.<\/p>\n

Of course I’d be tempted.<\/strong> In many moments of passion, I’ve even said out loud that I would. But if I needed to sell my house tomorrow, I’d still call one of the extremely good REALTORS? or real estate agents I’ve met in the last three years and I’d have them do it for me. Why? Because I don’t know how to sell real estate? No. I would be willing to bet all the equity in the house that I could get as many buyers to visit my home as just about any real estate professionals I Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hated my last REALTOR?. Well, hate is a strong word. I don’t really know him well enough to hate him. But I’m sure if the sale had taken just one week longer, I would have known him just long enough to wish him all manner of ill will. I KNOW I hated the work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-enduring-interest","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1048,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1048\/fizzbos-fizzle-because-of-3-key-marketing-issues\/","url_meta":{"origin":958,"position":0},"title":"‘Fizzbos’ fizzle because of 3 key marketing issues","author":"Greg Swann","date":"February 16, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is me in today's Arizona Republic (permanent link): \u00a0'Fizzbos' fizzle because of 3 key marketing issues I have a friend in another state who is selling his home \"by owner,\" which Realtors affectionately refer to as a \"fizzbo.\" It's interesting for me to watch, because he's done a very\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Disintermediation"","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2255,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2255\/consumers-to-realtors-dont-push-me-ill-pull-you-instead-and-if-you-push-too-hard-ill-pull-away\/","url_meta":{"origin":958,"position":1},"title":"Consumers to Realtors: “Don’t push me, I’ll pull you instead — and if you push too hard, I’ll pull away”","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 23, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my column for this week from the Arizona Republic. Not by coincidence, I'm talking about the curriculum of our forthcoming marketing conference. \u00a0Consumers to Realtors: \"Don't push me, I'll pull you instead -- and if you push too hard, I'll pull away\" There is a quiet revolution going\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Disintermediation"","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":233,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/233\/tomatillos-seven-steps-to-a-realtor-20-salsa-of-success\/","url_meta":{"origin":958,"position":2},"title":"Tomatillos: Seven steps to a Realtor 2.0 salsa of success . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 22, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"With a solemn nod to Dustin, the First Man of real estate weblogs, I wanted to cite posts of merit that have been bouncing around in my brain. I'm not as ambitious as Dustin, though, so I want to go to one place only for now: The Real Estate Tomato.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1648,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1648\/zillowcom-to-launch-realtor-rating-system\/","url_meta":{"origin":958,"position":3},"title":"Zillow.com to launch Realtor rating system","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"From John Cook's Venture Blog:As an investor and board member at Avvo, I asked [Zillow.com's Rich Barton] when Zillow might roll out an online rating system for real estate agents. That idea is in the works, with Barton saying that the company also is trying to develop ways for consumers\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Disintermediation"","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":880,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/880\/community-choice-in-real-estate\/","url_meta":{"origin":958,"position":4},"title":"Community Choice in Real Estate","author":"Russell Shaw","date":"January 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Interested\" wrote: What would be the disadvantage of listing a home with a Realtor who charges a flat fee based on services provided? Brian Brady responded: I'd like to take stab at this question: It's economics. There is a school of thought that suggests that Realtors are clerks; some are.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Disintermediation"","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":762,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/762\/who-needs-realtors\/","url_meta":{"origin":958,"position":5},"title":"Who needs Realtors . . . ?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"December 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I was talking with a reporter yesterday about the idea of disintermediation in real estate. I brought up the question of what is the ideal closing date, just as a quick and dirty illustration of why buyers and sellers need professional advice, even if they think they don't. This morning's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Disintermediation"","block_context":{"text":"Disintermediation","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/disintermediation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}