You may or may not have read about this already, but one of our fellow REALTORS, Mark Rasmussen is under attack by his own board of REALTORS, The Sarasota Board of REALTORS to be exact.  They are doing everything within their power to destroy Mark and his domain which was purchased over 5 years ago, when even NAR was advising us to buy domain names with city names in them and MLS.

As you all know, it is a very large amount of work building up a domain so that it ranks first on the first page of google for very competitive search terms like Sarasota Real Estate, Sarasota FL Real Estate, Sarasota MLS, and Sarasota Homes For Sale, but Mark did it over a 5+ year period, and he did it so well, that nobody in the Sarasota real estate marketplace could compete with him.  The domain in question is TheSarasotaMLS.com

Keep in mind that the Sarasota MLS no longer even exists, it was rolled into the Mid Florida MLS at some point.  Another point to keep in mind is that Mark had disclaimers all over his site stating that the website was not the Sarasota MLS.

Currently Mark has taken down the website he had on TheSarasotaMLS.com and redirected the domain to his new domain found at Sarasota Real Estate which is why that site is doing so well in google's searches.  But redirecting the domain name is not good enough for SAR, they want to take ownership of the domain and redirect all the links that Mark built over those 5+ years to whatever they deem important.  Sounds like greed and jealousy to me.

There is another blog post here at Active Rain  Sarasota MLS which I cannot believe is not on the first page of the featured posts.

I also wrote a post about the Sarasota Board of REALTORS being out for Blood

If you would, please jump over to the other Active Rain Blog and flag it to be featured as it is very important.

James Boyer, REALTOR.  Selling great homes all along the Midtown Direct Train Line.  Morristown NJ Homes For Sale