Comments on: 58% of Lake County agents say calREDD is “below inadequate” ?

By: Inquiring Mind

Inquiring Mind — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:12:34 +0000

Gary…I don’t think you are confused at all. Except on one thing… Concentric can’t make up its mind as to whether it is a “vendor” or and “MLS”. Either way, it’s half a**ed at that. It’s a “hey guys…help us build this thang won’t ya?” (while you pay us in the meantime, kinda thing)
And as for the supposed “state of the art” moniker they keep throwing around…do you just mind…

By: Gary Gracia

Gary Gracia — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:23:50 +0000

the statewide mls and a “property centric” database of CA properties (which I think is the true CALMLS benefit) and economy of scale when negotiating with service providers, were what the CAR BOD voted on in 2008. I remember the working group planning to get RFPs. I don’t remember (maybe I’m confused…) voting to launch an internet startup company to develop calREDD. That I believe, and submit, is the problem.

By: calREDD continues to suck. | Vendor Alley

calREDD continues to suck. | Vendor Alley — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:19:15 +0000

[...] The article is called “Another rocky launch for ‘California MLS‘” and focuses on some of the frustrations of Lake Country Association of REALTORS, which represents about 400 members and is calREDD’s latest victim customer. Some of this frustration has also been posted on Vendor Alley. [...]

By: Inquiring Mind

Inquiring Mind — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:24:37 +0000

The silence from Lake Co. is deafening…have they all been put on restriction? Who came up with the 58% figure? I’m not pointing fingers…I’m just curious…and wondering why we haven’t heard more from the agents of Lake Co.?

By: Mr. Concerned

Mr. Concerned — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:15:32 +0000

Last Friday I got the president of the Lake County Association of Realtors, Anita McKee of Lakeview Properties, on the telephone and asked her about the fact that 58% of realtors in Lake County being unhappy!

She assured me that all was good, that it was really just a couple of folks, SusieQ in particular, who were unhappy and that in fact the system was working very well and that soon the last 1 or 2 issues with Concentric will be fixed.

What are we to believe???

I do remember similar messages coming from the Fresno board in early April last year………. a few days before calREDD got the boot!

By: Raptor

Raptor — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:26:32 +0000

Surprize, surprize, surprize…..as whats his name use to say on the Andy Griffith show!!!! Duh, Duh, Duh……and “oh really??” Did anyone HONESTLY think this boondoggle was going to work??????

By: David Englin

David Englin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:18:29 +0000

You got my curiosity up, what ended up happening?

By: Suzeeq

Suzeeq — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:40:25 +0000

If it’s all politics then it’s real bad politics. So many businesses have suffered in Lake County under Calredd’s defunct MLS system.
The audacity to keep on marketing it to other small town associations in its current incarnation is bordering on criminal.
There is too much conflict of interest all around: our dues paying CAR to pay Calredd and now that it is proving again to be such a failure who do we call? The CAR legal hotline? hmmmm?
Who wants a MLS system monopolizing the market place anyway?
Bad idea and a defunct system and covert politics – whose going to call the pot black and whose going to fess up and take responsibility?

By: Mr. Concerned

Mr. Concerned — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:28:57 +0000

I 100% agree with Andy’s comment above!!

By: RESage

RESage — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:56:11 +0000

Second verse, same as the first.

Let’s face it, it’s mostly a political decision.

What other rational explanation could there be for an assocation/mls to put it’s members at risk by having their MLS service provided by a vendor (Concentric) with no real employees and finances that are supported by a portion of a $3 million line of credit from C.A.R.(member dues money, by the way), to calREDD, to Concentric. What kind of sustainable business model is that?

This is why the working agents and brokers in the field need to pay closer attention to what their association leadership is doing.