I Made a Mistake
In Sunday’s post, “NAR’s Shiny New ‘Assessment Fee’“, I made a glaring error.
The assessment fee is not new. It has apparently been around for 10 years. My bad, and I should have checked the facts before posting that.
This morning, I received an email from someone in the industry. The writer talked about my general “tone” on NAR related posts and at the same time freely admitted the NAR needs to reach out and is not a perfect organization. I appreciate them taking the time to write and to express their opinion. They mentioned one thing that bothered me:
“. . . and the fact that you rarely seem to check the facts before you fly off the handle, it’s hard to see you and some other bloggers as credible.”
I implore this emailer not to take my error, lump in other bloggers and question their credibility. This was my error, and mine alone. Selfishly, I’d also challenge the writer to review any of the hundreds of posts on my own blog, or the countless posts and comments I’ve left on other blogs and forums. I won’t be so bold as to say I’ve never made a mistake in the past, but I will say with confidence that it rarely happens and I normally do a much better job on fact-checking than I did on this particular post.
Certainly there are many of the 71,000,000 bloggers in the world that lack credibility. But of the hundreds of real estate webloggers out there, I think most are quite credible and do a great job.
But we are human, and we make mistakes. Myself included.
NARWisdom is not a “bash the NAR at all costs” weblog. I created it as an open venue to discuss the NAR — the good and the bad. And yes, there is good. As previously posted here, anyone is welcome to register on this blog, where you will immediately have “contributor” access and the ability to post your thoughts and opinions. Other than blatant spam and self-promotion, nothing will be edited/censored.
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