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From a recent post: "After scouring dozens of listings online and spending his Saturdays and Sundays visiting properties in person, Guiro came away frustrated. The pictures he reviewed online just didn’t match up with the properties he saw in person." That's because we do not have wide-angle eyes. ;-)

It continues to amaze me how many courses (some of them with clock hour credits!) are offered for real estate agents on how to use the iPad. There were no such classes when the PC came about and I know plenty of agents who need lessons on the most basic functions of a PC after all these years ;-)

If you could produce a national TV commercial for NAR what would be your message?

Doing the right thing. No designation, no verification, and no association will ever do what more and more agents "doing the right thing while nobody's looking" will do.

I can't think of anything where my (brokerage-forced) NAR membership has

We still have a lot of those credit earning "basket weaving" courses in WA ;-)

Chris Nichols Same here and thank you. Your are serving in a cause in which you believe.

Selling the information to IDX providers was a big mistake. The MLS (I'm in Seattle) should have created consumer access AND link the consumer access and activity to the listing or buyer's agent; i.e., the consumer would have been invited to the site by her/his agent. Greater loyalty and much less confusion would have been the results. As it stands, the horse has left the barn and our clients look to Zillow and the like as the authority in real estate. I can't blame them.

Chris Nichols Yes, there is something that NAR could do that would make me happy. Giving real estate agents (we are now called brokers in WA) the choice to belong or not belong instead of boasting of a large membership that is forced by association. I spent my first four years in this business with a small brokerage that wasn't part of the NAR and I don't remember lacking anything in terms of my personal ability to market my business and serve my clients well.

Long live the lobbies, they make this country great!

We do not discuss "the association" for it will then consume us and we become lost in the netherworld that is the never ending story.

I sell HUD homes.... I know who I am calling tmrw....I would li e to be able to hang pic frames at our listings.

I said long ago that any industry that forces you to join an association to be considered a "professional" was anything but.

Arizona no longer approves courses like that for CE credit.

Gerhard I wish you the best. There's nothing more for me to say or do, except to keep serving on your behalf and that of the members of our association and homeowners everywhere.