RE: National Intranet MLS is Here, and It's Free

What a great idea! I wonder why no one ever thought of this before?

Now of course it does raise a few questions.

• Why would Boards or MLSs provide their databases to HomeExposure so they could be put out of business?
• The article mentioned up to 100% savings - why the sliding scale? Is it free or not?
• Who will provide the conversion resources?
• Who will provide the support resources?
• Who will provide the training resources?
• It's not free if it requires an ISP to access it.
• What about interstate commerce rules?
• What about RESPA? Who will the advertisers be - non-real estate related vendors?
• How will they know who is a licensed agent or not?
• Will they allow consumers to put their listings on too?
• Who will acquire and pay for tax/assessor/sales data?
• If their is billing involved who will do it?

This made a nice press release but it sounds like they have a lot of work to do.

Russ Bergeron - General Manager, Southern California MLS (SoCalMLS)
101 East Lincoln Avenue, Suite 120, Anaheim, CA 92805-3203
RussBergeron@SoCalMLS.com

Of course it's a killer idea and we are proud to be the first! Allow me to briefly address some of the questions raised regarding MLS-USA:

Why would Boards or MLSs provide their databases to HomeExposure so they could be put out of business?

Published: May 26, 1999

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