Residential

Real Estate Rabble – Translators Needed!

I'm calling ITT Tech. It's time they establish a course for translators for the MLS. Often the listings I see are so wacky I...

Home on De-Range – MLS Mayhem

My dear readers, friends, colleagues and fellow inmates: Please think before you participate in MLS-Speak. If you don't, you'll come off like a horse's...

The New Language of Un-Real Estate

Welcome to the New World. Recently a colleague and I were discussing all the changes we have witnessed since entering the wacky world of...

Referrals, Facebook and the REALTOR trademark

It seems that there was a bit of a kerfuffle recently about a Facebook page that (gasp!) used the word REALTOR® in the URL. Evidently...

Sell It or Smell It – MLS Pandemonium

Ah, yes, folks – it was a great 4th with sunshine, bar-be-ques, brewskies, and enough grammar and spelling pandemonium on the MLS to set...

Whatchu talkin’ ’bout, Willis? (MLS laughs)

I’ve been out of town awhile, but the MLS has not let me down in my absence. Like a confused turkey, the MLS ran...

The great un-sell – MLS whoppers!

Did you ever wonder how some houses get sold? Scott Friedman just posted a great article, "What Sells a Home and Why Most Agents...

Techie’s guide to NAR’s mid-year meetings

Are you coming to NAR’s Mid Year Meetings in Washington DC on May 11-13? If so, here’s a quick and dirty guide to what...