He was born on December 22nd 2004. He was a healthy beautiful baby boy. I wanted to name him Coltrane, but my wife thought that was crazy so we settled on Cole. After a couple days in the hospital we came home on Christmas Eve.
The house smelled like Christmas, and filled with bright decorations. An extra stocking already hung on the mantel.
Still sleeping in his car seat, I placed Cole under the Christmas tree. I haven’t been the same since.
Happy Holidays everyone.
RESO Elects 2016 Officers, New Directors to Its Board
Newly elected Officers of the Board of Directors:
Art Carter, CEO of California Regional MLS or CRMLS, Chair
Rob Overman, Chief Technology Officer of Lone Wolf Real Estate Technologies, Vice Chair
Richard Renton, Chief Executive Officer of Triad MLS, Treasurer
Rebecca Jensen, President & CEO of Midwest Real Estate Data LLC or MRED, SecretaryNewly appointed members to the RESO Board of Directors:
Cary Sylvester, Vice President of Industry Development of Keller Williams
Tom Flanagan, Vice President of Technology of Alain Pinel Realtors
Glenn Shimkus, VP Product of DocuSignNewly elected member to the RESO Board of Directors:
Pace Davis, Owner/CEO of Bridge Interactive Group LLCRe-elected members to the RESO Board of Directors:
Richard Renton, CEO of Triad MLS
Michael Wurzer, President of FBS (Flexmls)
Justin LaJoie, VP of Industry Solutions, Zillow (appointed)
Let’s do this!
Speaking of Zillow, looks like the old Tarasoft team is getting back together.
Bill Andrews – Director of MLS & Industry Relations at Zillow Group Inc.
Last week Andrea at Inman News wrote an article titled, “NAR dodges 3 Zillow claims in Crocker letter countersuit, but defamation sticks“. I still think both parties should just drop each other lawsuits against each other but these two answers jumped out at me in the transcript.
Keep in mind this is Zillow’s attorney interviewing Chris Crocker:
“Q. Do you recall telling me that you had no information that would lead you to believe that Mr. Samuelson had ever used Move’s confidential while at Zillow?
A. That is accurate.”
and
“Q. As you sit here today, are you aware of any information that indicate that Mr. Samuelson used or disclosed confidential Move information?
A. I am not.”
Introducing the Turn On Podcast
“So, we thought we’d share the talking with you once in awhile by doing a podcast. We’re calling it Turn On. Sometimes it will be just Marc and I talking about stuff we’d be talking about anyway, then maybe we’ll invite some guests.
It’s been a crazy few weeks, so I haven’t been posting too much lately. Top of my list was to talk about the announcement that CRMLS and MLSListings will begin sharing listings. This “barrier-free” agreement means both MLS providers will show listings via each others Matrix MLS system.
This shows real progress in Art Carter’s “ItsMyBusiness” campaign.
And also is counter to the narrative that larger brokers are putting out (a la Upstream) that MLS executives are standing still and deaf to their concerns. MRIS and TREND MLS’ MLS Evolved initiative is another good example of MLS executives putting their own interest behind in favor of exploring alternative solutions.
Kudos to Art and Jim.
From Inman News
Dotloop unveils new data privacy guarantee
“Since our acquisition by Zillow Group, there have been some questions from dotloop customers about how their data would now be used,” said Austin Allison, founder and general manager of dotloop, in a statement.
“Data privacy has always been a top priority for us; that has not changed. We are introducing the Dotloop Data Privacy Guarantee to provide increased transparency on this topic, making it very clear that dotloop customers own their data and that their data will not be used for Zillow Group products or services without their permission.”
From what I’m hearing this is a bunch of hooey. Dotloop never wanted to amend or add to their existing privacy policy but was forced to do so if they wanted to keep licensing forms in certain state.
Kal Raman resigns as CEO of Nationstar’s Xome
“Since joining Solutionstar last year, Raman oversaw the transformation of Solutionstar into Xome, through its launch in June. But now, just over one year after he took over Solutionstar, Raman is resigning.
Nationstar announced Raman’s resignation in a Monday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the SEC filing, Nationstar said that Raman resigned as president and CEO of Xome as of Nov. 23. No reason for Raman’s resignation is given,..”
That was Xuick.
Kudos to Andrea Brambila at Inman News on a great article, MLSs anxious about their role in Upstream, about the MLS communities concerns regarding Upstream. It’s a great article and you should go read it now.
I think David summed it up best.
“MLSs are the default information exchange that facilitates tens of millions of dollars of residential real estate every minute. So it stands to reason we have questions,” David Charron, CEO of Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc. (MRIS), told Inman in an email. [W]e surely support the aspirational intentions of Upstream. But we will not sit quietly when the proposed solution places so much of the broker and agent business at risk.”
But, to me, it’s a bit more complicated. Who do MLSs want answers from? RPR? Upstream (the organization)? To me RPR is simply the vendor in this equation. Upstream is the client. And it turns out that Upstream (the client) doesn’t even know what they want. Here’s Cary Sylvester, from KW, one of Upstream’s Board members.
“Upstream is new and different and we don’t have all the answers yet; and this keeps us agile to create the best solution to meet those goals. What we do have is a structured discovery process we’ll work through with each MLS.”
W—T—F?
We don’t have a plan, but that’s great, because it means we are wide open to having a plan?
If Upstream is going to happen it is going to be about making the right choices. Any vendor, including RPR, might have the right partners, tech, and experience to pull this off, but they are going to have to help their clients understand what’s possible and what’s not.
I’m hoping that the people behind Upstream begin to realize that MLS providers provide a service that makes their most valuable asset, listings, even more valuable. And that they can start to think more inclusively about MLS providers being part of the over all solution, instead of just an arrow pointing out to a box on a diagram.
