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Some one correct me if I am wrong, back at the Millennium R.com was run by NAR and had a direct feed from the MLS’s and updated a few times a day.  Being such a pain to manage they farmed it out and it became this great money machine with preferred listings etc. Then it was reborn again with 3^rd party advertising (get your FICO score click here).  Now Tom Early is telling us that we are going back to the original system.  Tell me what is different from R.com version 1 and Gateway except that maybe and that is a big maybe , we will have more pictures.

I have not had a client in recent history tell me they used R.com versus 5 years ago when everybody used it.  It seems if we have a national IDX, people will have to through more hoops to use it.  Why would somebody going to my website to see the local IDX want to know about some other state.  Maybe a national MLS/Idx on one server will be cheaper and easier for the associations to administrate and if so great but if it is just adding another layer of bureaucracy, then forget it.  Maybe NAR figures they can make more money bringing it back in house under a new name.

Tom, can you enlighten us on more.

Lou Frey

Karl....

Very well said.  I'll repeat what I often say here on other subjects, but it applies to this as well ... "When we're not part of the SOLUTION, we ARE part of the problem!"

JudiB