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The Real Multiple Listing Service or a Violation?

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Gateway BRE# 01238257

Housing Radio Real Estate Show

You know Zillow and Trulia - they are not able to represent the actual MLS - at least I thought.

You know that most agents pay a website builder to build their systems - Like Boom Town, LinkuRealty and the others...

You know you are member of a Multiple Listing Service through your Board of Realtors? We pay the fee to be able to access the Real MLS - don't we?  Or is it just semantics?

That MLS supplies your "IDX" provider with access to listings so you can enable a search system on your website - that you had built for you. - you paid for it - so it's yours isn't it?

Isn't it, what you have, a more real MLS than Zillow and Trulia?  Or is it the same?

I need some guidance before I can prove I'm not better than this :)

OMT - do zillow and trulia have access to all of the real estate listings or can we, or our sellers, "restrict" them from obtaining their listings?

If you work for a website builder, like Real Geeks, should we all bow to your "greatness"?

And 200 years from now, when we are all dust, will it really matter?

I'm Ranting - as I will tomorrow on our Housing Radio Show. :)

I'm just glad that I had a chance to be a LAPD cop - "I saw things man..."

Troy Erickson AZ Realtor (602) 295-6807
HomeSmart - Chandler, AZ
Your Chandler, Ahwatukee, and East Valley Realtor

Connor - I think there are different levels of MLS because even though a lot of the data is shared, it is shared in different ways. Zillow pulls its housing data from multiple sources, as does our local MLS, and sometimes they differ.

Feb 17, 2016 01:37 PM