Recently Brad Inman wrote an article giving his opinion on realtor.com’s Agent Match experiment.

“Recently, I sent an email to a colleague asking about the brouhaha over agent ratings and he said, “Why don’t you write an article for your own news service and take a stand.”

He was right.

Here is my stand: Agent data holed up in the multiple listing service should be displayed for consumers to review and analyze.”

The comment thread is growing, 88 when I posted this. The basic gist of a lot of the agent’s comments is that Brad “doesn’t have a dog in this fight”, meaning he isn’t a working agent so his opinion means nothing. Or worse he has some sort of nefarious agenda for publishing this opinion.

Let me educate these short sighted commenters. This is a real estate industry. It consists of agents, brokers, vendors, mortgage professionals, title professionals, bloggers, writers, journalists, MLSs, etc.

BARK!