From: radio@gowpb.com
Newsgroups: misc.invest.real-estate
Subject: Re: Is the National Association of Realtors clueless?
Date: 23 Jul 2006 14:46:28 -0700
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MD wrote:
> My realtor sister just informed me she has to pay a large sum of money
> for the privilege of having her listings shown on realtor.com.
>
> Have you seen their site?  What a joke!  On e-bay, I can view several
> high resolution images of a $2 beanie baby with lots of text about the
> item for sale.
>
> Realtor.com, on the other hand, has vague listings with little tiny
> thumbnail images.
>
> They should show high quality images of ALL available homes in the MLS
> by any number of configurations including zip code and school district.
>  Purchasers need to see the locations of the available homes relative
> to hospitals, parks, serious crimes, etc.
>
> We should have much more robust tools to sort the results by price,
> square footage, whatever.



I sent a similar answer to another person squawking about Realtor.com
Remeber that Realtor.com is an advertising vehicle for 1,000,000
Realtors to find buyers for their 2.5 million  in unsold inventory. It
was never designed for you  (the public) to easily find a home without
a Realtor.....Do you want your industry to design a website to replace
your job? As professionals we pay thousand to belong to MLS, which
allows us to find and search, in ALL the ways you want. Just ask you
sister how easy it is to find a property on MLS.

The other problem is low tech agents and brokers. With all the tech
tools available, some don't load any pixs or just 1 bad pix. I load the
max with virtual tours and maps, and all the school and other info I
can find.  Some sellers ask me, can you but a classified ad in the
newspaper, THAT will sell my house....HA!

I recently spoke to the seller of a $15,000,000 ocean front home in
Florida, telling him about my services....and how his previous broker
only had ONE picture and no virtual tour on his house.  He was
told....you don't need the internet to sell you property.....HA.

30+ year real estate veteran.

>
> The NAR is so busy trying to hold on to their power and old style
> busineess model that they're screwing their own people and the
> general public.  They better continue greasing the palms of the
> politicians because some astute business team from Google Earth or
> Yahoo Maps is going to clean their clock.
>
> Instead of all the warm and fuzzy commercials and legislative palm
> greasing why not try serving the public by utilizing technology to help
> the consumer? 
> 
> MD