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Real Estate is a "relationship business" and relationships are built upon a foundation of trust. Trust is a confident relationship with the unknown.Trust is a major component of innovation and economic development and it is a critical ingredient of entrprenurial success. How does one build trust (and confidence) in a…
Do you remember the last time Wall Street tried to aggregate financial services? I actually built a financial planning business around the concept of financial service aggregation and "one stop shop" for financial services. My business included seminars on home buying, real estate investing, financial planning, taxes, and securities.
Online Communities: Online Communities are reinventing the way we communicate, learn, and share information. Individuals, associations, businesses and individuals are discovering the power, versatility and affordability of Internet Communities as a reliable resource for information on just about any topic you can imagine. But be careful...the Internet is full of…
Keep in mind that the purpose of the Internal Revenue Code is more than than the determination of taxes owed and a system of rules on payment. A major purpose of the tax code is: Social and Economic Engineering. Over the years, I have found hat often the answer to…
...No iphones in this diagram :-) When a public portal of listings was first being considered by RIN (a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Association of REALTORS), this diagram is how we thought it would work. Note:DxM - This is the "Data Dictionary" which is being offered as a…
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Some of you may remember Interrealty. It was the biggest MLS vendor in Western Hemisphere at one time, and a number of real estate industry leaders came from this company. One of the most important tasks for the Industry when NAR launched the REALTORS Information Network (RIN), was the "normalization"…
The story of the origins of REALTOR Dot Com has not been lost to history. I have most of the original documents, manuals, disks, publications, and email communications between the significant participants at the time, sitting in boxes in my garage, waiting for the right moment to be included in…
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