By Gwen Banta on August 27, 2010
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 petute. This week’s fertile field of bloopers was more like a tribute to Calabasas, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. Check…
Posted in Friday, Highlights, Marketing, Marketing, NAR, Opinions, Public Relations, RE Moments, Real Estate, Realtors | Tagged Marketing, MLS, Public Relations, Real Estate, Realtors, Sales |
By Ken Montville on July 18, 2010
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 someone had set up a Facebook “Like” page for REALTORS® and, presumably, mere real estate agents to join in to give and receive…
Posted in NAR, Realtors | Tagged facebook, NAR, real estate agent, real estate trademarks, Realtor |
By Melanie Wyne on April 30, 2010
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 to check out and where to grab a cocktail. If you are going to be at the meetings please be sure…
Posted in Conference Coverage, NAR, Tech | Tagged NAR, NAR Mid-Year |
By Russell Shaw on April 22, 2010
What NAR is or isn’t doing
A lot of blog posts have been written about what the National Association of Realtors is doing wrong or what they “ought to be doing” with regard to this or that. I have written some of those posts myself. …
Posted in NAR, Realtors | Tagged NAR |
By Jonathan Benya on February 16, 2010
This is a follow-up article to my recent post about the 10 things I Wish They Taught in Real Estate School. The response I got to the article has gotten me to thinking about our industry at large and some of the disparity between the…
Posted in NAR, Opinions, Real Estate | Tagged NAR, National Association of Realtors, realtor ethics |
By Ken Montville on January 17, 2010
Devoted readers of AgentGenius and, perhaps, the occasional web surfer may have noticed something I posted last week as an Open Letter to the President of the NAR. In that post, I expressed some disappointment with the direction the NAR has been taking with regard…
Posted in NAR, Opinions, Politics, Real Estate | Tagged Business, NAR, Realtors, Vicki Cox Golder |
By Ken Montville on January 10, 2010
Dear Vicki (may I call you, Vicki?),
I just finished reading the wonderful profile written about you in REALTOR Magazine. As a native Washingtonian now living in the MD Suburbs, I want to welcome you to the Nation’s Capital. It’s a tad different than Tucson…
Posted in NAR, Opinions, Politics | Tagged congress, NAR, politics |
By Ken Montville on January 3, 2010
The real challenge with writing about politics and real estate is that everyone takes off during the Christmas holidays. Congress has left town and won’t be back for a bit so the health care debate has died down. Tea Party revelers are face down in…
Posted in NAR, Opinions, Politics | Tagged 2010, home ownership, NAR, RESPA |
By Greg Cooper on January 3, 2010
Times are changing
In the old days we didn’t question much of anything. This is how much it costs for X homes magazine, this is how much it costs for a direct mail piece and NAR can spend our dues however they like. We were…
Posted in NAR, Politics | Tagged NAR, politics |
By Fred Glick on December 14, 2009
It’s Novermber 2014…
…and we are all excited about the NAR convention this year.
I can’t wait to go through Finance World where we find the latest on nano-mortgage technology from Bank of United States (the company after the B of A/Citibank/ J P Morgan…
Posted in Conference Coverage, NAR, News, Real Estate | Tagged NAR |
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