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NAR Reclaims Realtor.com

Realtors Coming Out of the Closet

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Russell Shaw

A few short years ago when I was doing my original research for shaftingrealtors.com (when I first became enraged with Realtor.com) I found something very interesting.  There was a site (a rather stupid looking site with an even more stupid, long and impossible to remember URL) hosted on AOL that was beyond critical of Realtor.com.  That site is no longer up (and I have since removed shaftingrealtors, when NAR politely asked me to).  What was interesting was that it was impossible for me to find the person who had put up that site on AOL.  Their name showed up nowhere

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NAR – Welcome to the Waffle House

Posted on May 20, 2009 by Russell Shaw

Just as a gentle reminder to all of what the actual purpose of the National Association of Realtors is supposed to be: "The core purpose of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® is to help its members become more profitable and successful."  You can see that here. Prior to reading this post – which most internet-savvy Realtors have now read – I didn’t know what "indexing" was and didn’t care.  That was something I only learned in the comments section of that post.  So I now ask, Is it possible that Paula was wrong to allow search engines to find all

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Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down on REALTOR.com?

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Russell Shaw

This is another Open Letter to all of the officers, executives and staff of the National Association of Realtors. Is Trulia better than Realtor.com?  I received an email today from Trulia.  Here is part of what was included: Isn’t it amazing this can even happen?  If Realtor.com had been set up correctly in the first place Trulia would not exist.  Same with Zillow.  Neither one of them would exist at all.  If NAR had set up Realtor.com correctly I wouldn’t have received an email like this one.  Now or ever.  Trulia is set up to make money for the stockholders

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Hate REALTOR.com for Only the Right Reasons

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Russell Shaw

"I hate REALTOR.com." That was pretty much the response in the comments from FSBOs on Realtor.com.   I’m so glad Jay found that and wrote about it.  Eric Blackwell over at  Bloodhoundblog wrote about it too.  I think Michael Wurzer’s response is spot on but that Michael was way too polite. Let me go on record publicly as directly calling out ForSaleByOwner.com owners and executives as liars.  Blatant and knowing liars.  I understand that as a Realtor I am not supposed to utter an unkind word about a fellow Realtor (which they are).  So I encourage anyone who owns or works

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NAR Reclaims Realtor.com Series # 2: Gratitude

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Russell Shaw

It seems to me that if a REALTOR wants to "attack NAR" they might also think it was a good idea to take an axe to their own head if they had a headache.  We are the NAR.  When I hear statements to the effect that all NAR has ever really come up with is the MLS, I wonder why those same people don’t find it odd that jewelry stores only sell jewelry.  Or grocery stores seem fixated on food.  BMW just with the nice cars. I think that agents who don’t have a thankful attitude towards the (very) nice

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The NAR Reclaims Realtor.com Series

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Russell Shaw

  I don’t know how many posts there will be in this series but I will continue to post them until I find out.  I want NAR to completely reclaim Realtor.com.  I want them to take it away from MOVE (formerly Homestore).  I want everything about Realtor.com to be a member service included with our dues – just like realtor.ca is for Canadian Realtors. My Realtor.com pencil sharpener graphic above is pretty much how most Realtors who are involved with selling real estate tend to see Realtor.com. Is there anything about Zillow you don’t like?  How about Trulia?  Anything you

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