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Digest ArchiveSearch the MLS controversy
Created by:Jim Lee, Licensed Real Estate Broker, Knoxville, TN
Date: March 11, 2008, Number of Replies: 0
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The blog title is the ending graphic for a new posting on BloodhoundBlog in an article talking about the now national controversy regarding NAR's new Code of Ethics changes regarding use of the magic letters "MLS" in a domain name or "search the MLS" in a Realtor website.
"I’ve written about this before. This is an issue that just isn’t going to go away. Like most oppressive rules and laws this bad rule (at least as it is currently interpreted and practiced) was a sincere attempt to solve a problem. Unfortunately, the current rule creates a whole new type of problem.
The solution is the new problem.
Should any misleading or deceitful statement statement be permitted on a website? No and the NAR Code of Ethics already covered that. But this issue - at least as it now stands - is a good example of “an innocent dolphin caught in a tuna net”. The very idea that an NAR committee came up with a restriction for Realtors that our competitors - who are trying to put us out of business - don’t have to follow is just absurd."
I agree.
"I’ve written about this before. This is an issue that just isn’t going to go away. Like most oppressive rules and laws this bad rule (at least as it is currently interpreted and practiced) was a sincere attempt to solve a problem. Unfortunately, the current rule creates a whole new type of problem.
The solution is the new problem.
Should any misleading or deceitful statement statement be permitted on a website? No and the NAR Code of Ethics already covered that. But this issue - at least as it now stands - is a good example of “an innocent dolphin caught in a tuna net”. The very idea that an NAR committee came up with a restriction for Realtors that our competitors - who are trying to put us out of business - don’t have to follow is just absurd."
I agree.
Jim Lee, REALTOR®, CRS, JIM, GRI, ABR, e-PROTrainer
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