Rumor has it the REALTOR Association of Greater Miami (RAMB) and the REALTOR Association of Miami-Dade County are merging. And it looks like CEO Martha Bullman of Miami-Dade will be retiring. Long time CEO, Teresa King Kinney, of RAMB will be leading the new effort.
Rumor also has it happening as soon as August 1st.
This could have huge consequences and might result in a domino effect for other South Florida associations. Who could be next Fort Lauderdale, South Broward, and/or Palm Beach?
You got to hand it to Vendor Alley readers they always get their man!
Is Gary Joyner the dumbasswhack-job conspiracy freak knucklehead is part of NARScandal.com? We think so. It looks like Gary’s sub par tech skills may have outed himself. Vendor Alley reader Brian Bell easily cracked his site by cleverly letting the site time out to reveal his identity. (click on image below)
Right there for all the world to see gary@idxstudios.com. Now we know why the site’s favicon is a “G”.
Lets hope he does a better job locking down sites for his customers! And speaking of his “customers”. Gary has quite a client list on his site http://www.idxstudios.com/clients.phpSeems like Gary likes to stretch the truth a bit himself, might this be a new “scandal” he and his “staff of writers” at NARScandal.com can write about? His “client list” includes: HGTV, Century21, AOL, The Wall Street Journal, Lehman Brothers, and the NYSE.
The NYSE? REEEEALLY Gary? The Wall Street Journal? REEEEEEEEALLY Gary? What did you do? Take a picture of their lobby?
One word Gary, BULLSHIT!
If you are an MLS Provider I would strongly suggest you check your IDX agreements for Gary’s companies, idxmedia.com, idxstudios.com and indigo sun studios (isun.net). Not sure why Gary has so many names for companies that essentially provide the same service, but it sounds like a HUGE red flag.
Remember how you could play albums backwards and hear secret messages? On The Beatles album, “Abbey Road” many people heard the phrase “Paul is Dead”, which caused many fans to believe that Paul McCartney had died in a car crash.
Some messages are not so hard to understand. Take the 1976 hit from Blue Oyster Cult, “Don’t fear the Reaper”
“All our times have come
Here but now they’re gone
Seasons don’t fear the reaper
Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain..we can be like they are…”
MRIS sent a message to RPR that was loud and clear. “Thanks, but no thanks”. This is significant and symbolic in a lot of ways.
1. MRIS is the largest MLS provider in the country.
Not being able to get the largest MLS in country to sign up doesn’t bode well for the future.
2. Dale Ross, RPR’s CEO, is the former CEO of MRIS
If you can’t get the MLS you used to run sign up, then who can you get?
3. MRIS covers Washington D.C. the very place RPR hopes to sell the MLS data.
If you can’t get the local MLS to sign up, then how good is your coverage?
Plus 2 other significant developments have happen.
1. Laura Wolford has left the VP of marketing position or MRIS and has been replaced by Rob Hahn (as a consultant), the blogger/consultant who declared “The death of RPR” is now running their marketing department. Not a great sign for RPR either.
2. Also, rumor is that MRIS is working on a home grown version of RPR, where they get to keep all the profits. Doubters might say that this will prove to be unsuccessful. These doubters are wrong and have not been paying attention to what MRIS CEO David Charron and his team have accomplished in the past several years.
“Come on baby…don’t fear the reaper
Baby take my hand…don’t fear the reaper
We’ll be able to fly…don’t fear the reaper
Baby I’m your man…”
Of course the MRIS board of directors could change their mind, but when you add all these factors up it doesn’t look good.
“La la la la la
La la la la la”
It’s clear now that RPR not offering MLS providers a way to share revenue generated from their respective data was a mistake. Some companies are not only allowing MLS to “dip their beak” , but go for a swim!
So the solution is pretty clear, the MLSs have spoken…. MORE COW BELL RPR!!!
Looks like First American in wake of the recent COVE meetings in Scottsdale have been offering a 40% revenue share deal to MLS Providers who sign with them exclusively . 15% for a non-exclusive deal.
