So it’s almost five days since I dropped the dime on the bribe gifts being thrust upon the contributors to AG. Has anyone publicly renounced them so far? We got to see Jay Thompson issue some tepid caveats about the gift products — from our pages, not AG’s. And we got to watch in horror […]
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This final post (Part 3) grew rather lengthy. Considering the fact this has already stretched into a three-part series, I chose to extend the series to five rather than attempt a conclusion of somnolent proportions. If brevity is the soul of wit, creating a new model for real estate is witless. So grab a cup […]
This is a response to a comment that grew up to be a post: Louis Cammarosano: “[I]f it wasn’t for “Vendor” Zillow, Unchained Phoenix would have shown a loss.” No, we would have done the show in a different facility, without food. Zillow.com paid for our guests to have a much better experience than they […]
Update: It seems likely that Vlad’s cost to defend himself from this specious claim (if you read the complaint, you will discover that the alleged offense is entirely absent from Exhibit A) is going to start with a $5,000 retainer. It seems unlikely to me that the matter will go to court, but, if it […]
Galen Ward’s post on Trulia.com’s policy of adding “nofollow” tags to links back to its own listings partners has elicited quite a bit of controversy. The original post itself excited a great deal of commentary, and this is explored in encyclopedic detail in a fascinating post by Union Street Media’s Gahlord Dewald. Trulia.com’s Rudy Bachraty […]
Mary McKnight wrote an article last Friday called Real Estate Blogs are Stores, Not Websites – So Blog Like You are Selling Houses, Not Writing For Your Local Paper and it made the short list for the Odysseus Medal Sunday. It is well written and provocative. Mary McKnight is recognized as one of the premier […]
This is an extended response to “concerned citizen,” who commented at length on my Loudoun County Tax Assessor Todd Kaufman has a friend post. The nom de poltroon “concerned citizen” may or may not be a sock puppet for Todd Kaufman himself, but it sure reads that way to me. Does not Mr. Kaufman have […]
Part V: Why arguments for the current method of compensating real estate agents and against divorcing the real estate commissions must fail As I write this, the National Association of Realtors is preparing for its annual convention, to be held this year in America’s playground, Las Vegas, Nevada. This year marks the 100th anniversary of […]
Part II: How buyers can finally take a seat at the grown-up’s table When a potential home-seller calls me to set up a listing appointment, very often the first question I will hear is, “How much do you charge?” A motivated seller is done with the house, and now all that matters is money. Sellers […]
I’ve read ActiveRain’s lawsuit against Move, Inc., twice now. I had thought that I might parse the document, to show its fundamental weaknesses, but this isn’t necessary. It’s so weak that we can knock the whole thing down in a few paragraphs. The gist of the document is an extended sob story of how ActiveRain […]
This is probably not much of a secret, but I really love ideas. I think the argument that smart people can improve the NAR cartel from the inside is absurd, but the instant form of the claim — that I could advance Realtors’ use of technology by wasting my time at committee meetings — is […]
“If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.” –Victor Hugo The Russell Shaw entry What’s wrong with Zip Realty?, written in February, was the most clicked-upon post on BloodhoundBlog on Tuesday. Debunking Zillow.com, which was written last July and which often comes in first, […]
I am a hardliner on the subject of reform in the real estate industry. Over the last nine months, I have written at great length about, among other things, the skill-set required to survive in the future of full-service real estate, empowering buyers, dual agency, how the NAR makes war on the free enterprise system, […]
This is Tim O’Reilly on the Kathy Sierra persecution: There’s an attitude among many bloggers that deleting inflammatory comments is censorship. I think that needs to change. I’m not suggesting that every blog will want to delete such comments, but I am suggesting that blogs that do want to keep the level of dialog at […]
Kevin Boer thought he found an error in Redfin’s accounting of its MLS results. What he found turned out to be trivial, which led to another round of war-hooping from the Redfin tribe. Meanwhile, our new contributor James Hsu has demonstrated that Redfin’s horse runs behind the middle of the pack among big-name Seattle brokerages. […]