Kendyl I think your last sentence says it all. If what they are doing is working so well, why get into it? Tech is not for all agents, and if it aint broke, don't fix it. Just don't try and convince me that your way is better than mine. It may be better for you, but not for me.Thank you Mary!
They are two MLS's in neighboring counties. They are not exact geographical area, except for the county border areas, and many agents and brokerages sell across county lines, which is fine, it doesn't matter if a listing gets sold by an agent from a different county, as long as it sells. The data encompasses all listings, Active, Under Contract, Expired, Withdrawn, Sold, etc. If you don't belong to both MLS's, you don't access to all of the above data in both areas. The FIND product alleviates most of that, which is why our Board decided to offer it to our membership, to provide them with more data and alleviate the costs associated with being part of two MLS's.
Jeff Beck We have competing MLS's in our county, one is broker owned for profit and the other is Board owned and non profit. When you have a for profit broker owned MLS, their main goal is to make money instead of looking out for the best interests of, and supporting their membership. It is only logical, if you are for profit, your goal is to make money, not to give service to your membership. In my opinion, an MLS, local baord, State Association and National Association should have a goal to give support their members, not a goal to make a profit off of their membership. In our case, the for profit MLS is clearly running their MLS more to make money then to support their membership, and to me all of these organizations should be more concerned with that then making a profit.
It's all about the numbers and researching them to become as informed as possible. We all know what happened when people ass-u-me. ;-)
