Everyone likes an underdog. We root for the little guy to take down a Goliath with a single, well-aimed stone’s throw. The little engine that could, often can and does. Spring is not only the time when a young man’s fancy lightly turns to love, it’s also the occasion for …
I know a lot of you were looking forward to a gut-wrenching expose and tell-all from the insider’s perspective on why NAR so suddenly defunded and suspended all work on AMP – the Advanced Multi-List Platform that RPR had been developing for over three years. And I know a lot …
You should read this In May, 2015 the National Association of REALTORS® approved funding for RPR’s project AMP™ (Advanced Multi-List Platform) and Upstream™ (the broker controlled listing maintenance and distribution project to be built using RPR’s AMP technology). Shortly thereafter, the California Association of REALTORS® (CAR) convened another in their …
If you are here looking for the four-part series I wrote about the RPR AMP project (Advanced Multi-List Platform) that NAR CEO Dale Stinton mentioned during the Association Executives Committee this morning, you are in the right place. Click on the link below to download the full set of articles. The …
The National Broker Public Portal announced appointment of its initial board of managers this week. In the press release they state that the project is designed to fill “an unmet need in the online marketplace.” Unfortunately, don’t define what that need is, leaving many readers still scratching their heads wondering …
So far in Part 1 of our journey, we have examined the pressing problems facing the MLS industry. In Part 2, we identified the source of those problems. In Part 3 we proposed a solution based on a totally new architecture of the core MLS technology, the database that drives …
In Part I of this series we looked at the problems and challenges facing the MLS community of today. In Part II we defined the problems in greater detail and examined the systemic and institutional monopolies that perpetuate those problems. In this installment we will look at a possible solution, …
In Part I of this series we looked at the MLS industry from a historical perspective, leading us now to a closer look at the particular problems the institution of MLS is facing. In general, the problems the MLS faces today, that are not institutional, are strictly technology related and …
Preface Some of you may have noticed that this blog has been remarkably silent for the past eight months or so. That is not for lack of wanting to comment on happenings in our industry. I have had many thoughts and started numerous posts and then for reasons, which will …
Hi intrepid readers. Notorious Junior here to do a follow-up report to Notorious Senior’s parsing of the NAR Organizational Realignment and Core Standards project, Part 1. (Part 1 didn’t appear on this site, so if you missed it you’ll need to play catch up by jumping over to Rob’s site and reading the first part.) …
