24 Hours of NAR on the RE.net

Here are a few posts from the last 24 hours that touch on the NAR….

Real Estate Myths or What I Did on My Summer Vacation — from Sellsius

The sellsius guys compare the oft quoted NAR stat that 77% of home buyers start their search on the Internet to what they found “on the street” during BlogTour USA. A great read!

In the Gospel according to NAR, 77% of buyers use the internet to search for homes. This stat has become sacred dogma, incessantly chanted by MSM and the bloggerati. It provides the philosophical foundation for putting your listings on all manner of websites. It requires you do penance to upgrade to the revered “featured listing”. To question this stat would be a blasphemy akin to questioning the earth’s roundness (actually, the earth is an oblate spheroid, but I digress.)

Don’t live in fear of the NAR or your broker — disintermediate them — from Greg Swann at BloodhoundBlog

Greg is never shy about his thoughts, ideas and opinions. An interesting, thought provoking read.

The stakes are high, as Brian has pointed out. You yourself have been smart enough to build a Web 2.0 marketing strategy, but now you’re faced with the possibility that your broker, with or without the help of the brokers’ cartel, the National Association of Realtors, may try to take it all away. Here are some things you can do to pursue independence now:

Does the NAR & the Big Brokers really want to fight The Blogosphere? — from Rain City Guide

The most interesting part of this post is the comment where ARDELL says, “If NAR would nix it (blogging), I’d just quit NAR.” The only reason I’m in the NAR is to get MLS access. Maybe ARDELL’s MLS doesn’t require it. Makes me wonder why she’s a member if she can “just quit” it.

NAR stepping into wildly unknown territory — from Real Central Virginia

Jim Duncan applies the NAR’s own Code of Ethics to answer this frightening concept:

The RE.net is evolving, and mostly self-policing, much too quickly for the National Association of Realtors to regulate it. Good luck to them if they have any thought that this might fly -

6. Posting unfavorable/unflattering (but truthful) comments to Blogs

There are more posts out there. Your editor is a little busy preparing to leave for Puerto Penasco, Mexico today for a little R&R. Posting my be light through the weekend….