NWMLS to Allow Brokerages to share more Data June 2, 2008
The Northwest Multiple Listing Service has announced policy changes that will allow brokerages to display more information on their websites. This means that if brokerages choose to, people will be able to see the length of time a property has been on the market, referred to as days-on-market (DOM), as well as cumulative-days-on-market (CDOM), along [...]
Rules for Rain City Guide Contributors September 11, 2007
I’ve never been one for rules, but in preparing to take on a new RCG contributor, I thought it might be a good time to articulate some of the informal rules that we seem to have developed on the site in order to bring together such an interesting crew (often with competing interests!)
But [...]
Commission double-take January 9, 2007
Ok, for those of you thinking from the title that I’ll be going back to the subject of dual agency and taking a seller and selling side of a commission this is about something else. What I’ve got a question about as well as a big concern right now is that I just got [...]
NWMLS sets its sights on violators January 2, 2007
(Editor’s Note: I always get excited when I get the chance to introduce a new contributor to Rain city Guide! Today, I get to introduce Reba Haas who I’ve been following for quite a while over on Judy’s Book. She leads a local real estate team in Seattle and through her comments [...]
The Battle of the MLS September 16, 2006
What a strange and wonderful industry you have here…
I was reading Trulia Blogs’s Is the MLS Totally Clueless? and Greg Swann’s Cute little Trulia pleads, “Can’t we share the hate?!?” blog postings, I have one thing to say… “You’re both right!”
I see myself as being an arms dealer or mercenary for brokers & agents. I’m [...]
Maybe I’ll write the book someday. As to consumer’s venting, I have had...