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WILL ZILLOW HAVE THE GOLD N RULE?

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with people first...then business Ran Right Realty 636943 licensed to thrill

The golden rule and Zillow. He who has THE gold rules all. That's what the government is trying to decide now. Will the coming together of ZILLOW & TRULIA cause a monopoly? Will Zillow have the gold and rule? I wonder what the criteria is when determining that. I already hear quite a bit from people who have done business with both entities and both the positive and the negative has been brought up. Does the government consider that feedback & input?

ASSEMBLING THE MASSES

The name of the game is staying power or capture. When they host the annual Oscars show, over one billion people are watching. That number translates into $$$ for the sponsors of the show. Same with Sports play-offs, Olympic games as well as allowing enormous advertising fees to paid to access the masses

MY WAY...NO HIGHWAY

Whatever or Whoever commands millions of peoples interest or focus has power to make lots of money, influence and plant their agenda into their captive audiences. Weekly churches do this every week. Your employer does it too. Having access to the multitudes seems to be what everyone wants to have their way carried out. The question is: What is their way and is it fair and will it harm anyone?

EVERYONE WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD

Randolph Hearst had monopoly for decades using his media empire consisting of newspapers and radio. AT & T held the phone concessions captive for many decades until it was broken. Tobacco companies, standard oil via Rockefeller and U.S. Steel all tried to monopolize and failed.

WHAT WE SAY...GOES?

What makes one wonder is that if a bunch of mega-wealthy people who control or have access to the billions of people on this planet all got together and started dictating their views, directions and heavily influence or peddle their agendas, how could you stop them?

UNCLE SAM AND COUSIN ZILLOW

So Uncle Sam is trying to find out that if Zillow has the final say in the Real Estate business of moving trillions of dollars just how that would impact the business itself, I would say that is a very good question to ask and have answered. Cousin Zillow wants to become Uncle Zillow

Will this help or hinder over 70 million people and with a potential to up that 5-10 times? That's a good question too. This.... has to be answered before the fact.

John Pusa
Glendale, CA

Richie - Very interesting analogy. We will wait and see the outcome.

Sep 12, 2014 10:26 AM
Richie Alan Naggar
people first...then business Ran Right Realty - Riverside, CA
agent & author

John...being in the business, we will be the first to know the impact of it all

Sep 12, 2014 11:02 AM
Conrad Allen
Re/Max Professional Associates - Webster, MA
Webster, Ma, Realtor

Hi Richie.  Realtor.com had the gold and dropped the ball big time.

Sep 12, 2014 08:47 PM
Ernie Steele
Lebanon, PA

Good post Richie...Conrad Allen makes a good point...Realtor.com had the name and the folks behind it who matter in this biz and became complacent...Enjoy your day!

Sep 12, 2014 09:42 PM
Richie Alan Naggar
people first...then business Ran Right Realty - Riverside, CA
agent & author

Hello Connie...I believe you may have made a good point. Whoever is at the helm of Realtor.com missed an great opportunity. While they slept, Zillow zoomed...thus the world of big business...

Ernie...Yes to Conrad nailing the reality of it. Just goes to show you that running a business while it is performing anyone can do. Keeping it running at optimum is another story...Someone was asleep at the wheel. Bad for them and good for Zillow

Sep 12, 2014 11:56 PM