New Years Resolutions

For Zillow? - Try to get 1 out of 100 zestimates to be accurate.

For HomeGain? - Time to up your referral fee yet again, go for 45% so more agents go broke.

For Realtor.com? - Try to actually care about the agents, not just saying you do.

For real estate bloggers? - Focus on the consumer!

For buyers? - The interest rates are great, stop expecting them to go back to 5%.

For sellers? - Try to understand that what you paid for your home, what you invested into improvements, and what you "need" to get out of it have nothing to do with its value.

• Do you have a New Years resolution for the real estate industry? Less agents to start the year, and a decent rebound fills the Hondros classes to capacity.
• For Zillow? Continued improvement sends them toe-to-toe with Google and they get smacked around
• For HomeGain? mama always said if you have nothing nice to say, then don't ....
• For Realtor.com? Is this still around?
• For real estate bloggers? The numbers will swell and the quality will remain the same
• For buyers? eventually, they'll realize that this is a GREAT market to purchase in, lots of inventory and good interest rates.
• For sellers? Wake Up and smell the coffee!

Personally, I don't like New Year's Resolutions. I do make goals this time of year, and work to meet my goals each year. But they are not "resolutions" per say.

Come on you guys... You can do better than this!

• Resolve to bring your program up-to-date! Criminy ... it's 2007!
• Try to actually care about the agents, not just saying you do
  

Let's see some real suggestions for Realtor.com.  What do you wish the site did better?

(I'm not saying it couldn't be improved by the way, I'm just curious what improvements this tech-savvy group would like to see!) 

Maureen I do use R.com and it is profitable for me. I think they could show that everything isn't just lip service by actually doing some upgrades that are not only intended to increase revenue opportunities. They have added multiple things over the last few years, but none of them improved the basic function of R.com, only new ways to charge agents more money.

The sad thing is if they would improve they could easily get more agents to sign up and improve their bottom line. Give a quality product and the agents will come back, keep trying to find ways to hit us up for more money and watch the site die a slow death. 

Maureen: I would argue that the fact that you are blogging puts you in the tech-savvy side of the agent equation.  My guess is that after blogging for as long as you have, you could even explain some concepts like SEO that would be foreign to most agents in the market! 

Ken: give me some examples... According to all sources I've seen, the site is still the most popular real estate destination on the web. I have no doubt that Move is capable of creating and releasing new tools, but remember that before anything is released to go live on RDC (do you mind if I call it that?), it has to be approved by NAR. That's why I ask: What do you want to see? 

Note that when I'm griping, I always try to offer at least an implicit solution! ;)

Ahh, so the guy from RDC is calling AR ugly!  I gotta laugh at that one.  RDC (isn't that move) is one of the UGLIEST sites around.  Talk about old fashioned looking...

This, by the way, is my 3,000th comment.  I wanted to leave it somewhere special.  And since you brought be here, you are the somewhere special. 

Thanks Elaine for the good blog posts to check out!

And Maurine, I don't blame you a bit for getting pissy with me, considering I'm the new guy offering criticism to your neighborhood...   But I just through I'd clarify that RCG is not part of Move.  It is a site that I own (with my wife) and operate completely independent of anything I do at Move.   There is no way Move would ever endorse or encourage some of the stuff that Ardell talks about!  LOL! 

Hmmm. Is he talking to Maureen McCabe?  It's her blog.  Or was Maureen Francis pissy?  Either way, I think we (both Maureens) know the difference between rain city guide and RDC (realtor.com) which was an abbreviation I thought Dustin first used somewhere. 

I wasn't pissy, btw.  I was honestly amused because I do think realtor.com is UGLY and awkward.  But don't take that personally.  The reputation of RCG and your work there is well known-and respected!

There's probably far more than one Rainer who doesn't know who Dustin is.  I had never heard of him until I began seeing his comments on a few posts that I also read, and I also noticed he was the one that apparently got Ardell to join in on the fun in the Puddle.  

Ann