May. 16, 2008 - RETS is not just an "MLS Thing"
During the NAR meetings I had the opportunity and privilege to help staff the RETS booth, and one booth visitor in particular piqued my interest. The visitor was a developer for one of the major broker back-office applications and expressed that he had integrated with a number of MLSs and was getting more comfortable with RETS, but he was still perhaps a bit fuzzy on RETS as one of those "MLS things".
It really brought home for me how MLS-centric a lot of the RETS effort has been, since RETS really should be providing a tremendous efficiency benefit to brokers and agents beyond the area of the MLS system, moving data efficiently and error-free from forms packages to broker systems and between all of the various broker and agent systems where real estate professionals are performing duplicate data entry.
When I expressed those thoughts, I think it was a real "Ah hah!" moment for that developer. I hope that he and other non-MLS developers continue to become more actively engaged in the RETS effort, and that RETS brings efficiencies to all of the systems in use by real estate professionals - not just MLS.
The message I think we need to get out there?
RETS is not just an "MLS Thing"
RETS is a "Broker Software Thing"
RETS is an "Agent Software Thing"
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May. 16, 2008 - RE: RETS is not just an "MLS Thing" |
| Posted by Jeff Brush |
Right On Matt!!!
This was exactly the concept behind Bruce Toback's RETS2 initiative.
If you can, please try to come to the next RETS meeting in August. The RETS community needs to hear these ideas and share this vision..
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May. 19, 2008 - RE: RETS is not just an "MLS Thing" |
| Posted by Matt Cohen |
| I miss Bruce - He was a man that really got it! |
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May. 19, 2008 - RE: RETS is not just an "MLS Thing" |
| Posted by Kristen Carr |
| Matt,
First, thank you for donating the very valuable and highly coveted resource of your time. RESO, RETS and the industry as a whole benefit from people like you who are willing to make time to improve our business.
Your insight is, yet again, right on and much needed. I think we've been trying very hard to nail down those thoughts and have not quite made the mark yet. This is a great opportunity for the RETS Workgroup to market to this segment of the industry and really push forward in taking RETS where we all want it to go.
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May. 19, 2008 - RE: RETS is not just an "MLS Thing" |
| Posted by Matt Cohen |
| Kristen, I'm very excited by all of the talented folks that are starting to put even more of their attention toward RETS. I had a great conversation with Myron at the meetings, and when RETS has his full attention starting later this summer I think we'll see even more acceleration in the effort. Just keep in touch to let me know I can contribute on the marketing front. |
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Matt Cohen is Clareity Consulting's Chief Technologist. Matt consults to MLSs, Associations, brokerages, and many real estate industry software companies and has spoken at conferences, workshops and leadership retreats around the country on a wide variety of MLS-related topics. Matt is a well-regarded real estate industry expert on industry trends, software design, product management, project management, and information security. Clareity Consulting was founded in 1996 to provide information technology consulting to the real estate industry and its related businesses.
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