mls: And then you've got your Truila...
- 10/04/16 10:02 PM
I become more and more annoyed with the National Association of Realtors for allowing Truila and others top act, in many ways, as a real estate broker.
If I am correct, there are no recognized residential Multiple Listing services that are not direct affiliations of an Association of Realtors.
Yet, Truila and others are apparently licensed to use our services without being members and without being required to abide by the Realtor Code of Ethics.
And then through advertising, they make their service so valuable for the public's home search that they sell its use back to legitimate MLS members.
It's amazing.
BILL CHERRY, REALTOR DALLAS Since 1966 On … (5 comments)
The Metrotex Association of Realtors is among the top five Realtor association in the United States.
It has an annual budgeted income of nearly $9 million and serves nearly 15,000 members.
That's a lot of money and authority to give to a group of professionals who, in the main, run the Association's business with very little direction from its employers, i.e., the 15,000 dues paying members.
For the past 45 years, I've been self-employed and my income solely came from businesses I owned. At one time, I had about 600 people working for me.
Additionally, I've served on operating boards (called vestries) of several Episcopal Churches, … (5 comments)
I wonder the validity of the wisdom that let NAR and the various MLS systems allow third parties to provide our total listing information to the public.
I personally believe that decision has watered down Realtors' ability to have knowledge of who has an interest in their listings.
It has also given licensed agents full information about the MLS listings without having to be Realtors and paying members of MLS.
There is no need to contact the listing agency, the listing agent or, quite frankly, any dues paying member of the appropriate MLS, to learn about the listing.
In reality, while the idea … (9 comments)
mls: WHO'S TO BLAME FOR THE UNSOLD HOME?
- 02/18/12 11:56 PM
Real estate brokerage wasn’t an overwhelming, competitive dog-eat-dog profession when I first permanently went full-time in the business in Galveston in the late ‘60s. Real estate brokers ran small ads, stuck signs in their agents' listings’ yards, and waited for the phone to ring. MLS wasn’t big with home buyers. They looked through the newspaper classified ads, drove neighborhoods looking for For Sale signs, and called each agency that had a listing they thought they would like to see. There were no For Sale sign riders, so the listing agent’s name and separate phone number weren’t there to see. Prospects … (2 comments)
mls: SO WHAT'S UP WITH THE WAY SOME AGENTS SHOW CO-OP LISTINGS?
- 05/09/10 01:06 PM
I'll admit that in prior years, I rarely if ever accompanied an MLS co-op agent when they showed one of my listings. But in recent months I've been there in at least 80% of the time to welcome the co-op agent and his clients. So here are my questions: How does an agent demonstrate my listing when they are on their cell phone as they walk in the door and are still on it as they and their clients leave? How does an agent demonstrate my listing when they do nothing but quickly lead their clients from room to room, restricting their … (4 comments)
mls: HOW DO YOU FIGURE OUT WHO'S TELLING THE TRUTH? FRANKLY, YOU PROBABLY CAN'T!
- 11/07/08 02:56 PM
About twenty years ago, there was a fellow-broker Realtor who was a nice guy, but frankly he had very little business. Most thought his knowledge was extraordinary and would be of real value to clients, but his personality was so obtuse that he ran potential business away. So he had a lot of time on his hands. One of the annoying things he had done was to self-appoint himself to police fellow Realtors to make certain they followed the rules and abided by the ethics, oft times as he interpreted them, not as they really were. I had … (13 comments)
mls: CBS and "60 Minutes" Bash Conventional Realtors Again
- 05/13/07 01:30 PM
By Bill Cherry Dallas Realtor-Broker My 43rd Year Serving Texans Meet me on the web at www.billcherrybroker.com Tonight, Sunday, May 13, 2007, "60 Minutes'" Leslie Stahl filed another report that insinuated that buyers and sellers of homes would be better off if they were to use an Internet broker like Seattle's Redfin. I have never found it particularly difficult to refute these arguments and what the supporters use as evidence, but it is rather impossible when only one side is presented, as was Ms. Stahl's stance. I found this one-sided presentation terribly offensive. Her report boiled down to this: The Internet brokers want … (15 comments)
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I become more and more annoyed with the National Association of Realtors for allowing Truila and others top act, in many ways, as a real estate broker.
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