Hi All

   I have a question, but it needs a little background first. The company I work for has started it's own listing service/system. It is basically somewhere else I have to enter my information for my listings so that they can be viewed. In developing this system they have started to feed to other internet sources... trulia, google,....and one of the latest... P2homes. Does this surprise me?...No but since this has occured I have heard a few P2A say that they may consider giving up their site and just go with the company one.

 My question is threefold.

Does your company offer a website to you specifically?

Do you use it or p2a site more?

Would you give one up for the other?

 I personally do not use the office site much. I find my p2 site easier to manipulate and  enjoy the relib connection.  I learned at a conference that my P2 site will trump the feed from the office site so I dont have to worry about listing double posting. I realize that I need to probably learn to utilize my office site effectively but I always find myself on this one. :~)

Does anyone know if there has been any change regarding our ability (or lack thereof) to handshake in Missouri?

Mr.Jason Golding, CFO/General Counsel, Point2 Technologies Inc. if your out there have you been able to discuss this with the MO Real Estate Commission?

Alright I just have to do this.

 This got started on the yahoo group I belong to because of the following:

 Lease/tenant of retail strip mall drove his truck to work and parked it in the mall lot. This particular truck has a for sale sign in it. Our city has an ordinance that does not permit for sale vechiles to be parked in public lots and does not allow property owner to grant permission for such use of said lot. Another store tenant reported the vechile ( not sure if tenant b was aware vechile owner was tenant in mall and used the vechile to get to work or not).  Vechile owner got tagged by PD to remove vechile.

 Now this is and of itself has no bearing here but this is why I brought it over....

 The vechile owner posted to the group as to the specific ordinance (wanted to know what it was) another party (well call him B)posted (I am not quoted the whole thing just use of specific words someone let me know if I need permission please) something to the effect that we should live & let live in regards to this and another complaint issued by another resident about a street being used as a parking lot for a commercial construction company working on a new store. Anyway, B stated that he likes to post passionately and stir the pot but more or less used remarks like "whining narcs"  that should have sought to reason with the neighbor/other party without involving the PD.

 So my question to this fantastic group is this:

When do you live & let live, or turn a blind eye to events around you instead of becoming a "whining narc" on someone breaking a law or ordinance or if we take it one step further :

When do you report another agent violating mls regulations (branded tours, or bonuses in the wrong place), ethics or so on

Is it ok if it doesnt hurt anyone (cars for sale in lots)

Is it ok to walk away from the neighbor with the black eye after you could hear the fight the night before (after all they are over 21 and its their relationship right)

Is is ok to walk away from the child who cowers and has more odd bruising, and broken bones then you can count?

Shall I go on?

when do you approach a neighbor you dont know who is welding at 1030-11pm in his front yard three doors down across the street and the stereo is so loud that your brick home is vibrating to the beat?

 Or when do you utilize the local services you pay for as a citizen?

Just curious

Mary T.

Hi All,

     Has everyone seen the latest MREC Newsletter Spring 07 Volume 155? Take special note of page 4 bottom left corner where this tidbit is located;

"Agent Handshake Agreement

   The Commission recently reviewed a website tool labeled as an "agent handshake" agreement. This tool  involves an agent including in their own website listing information belonging to another brokerage. The listing information appears on the agent website ouside of broker's framed IDX sites. It is of the Commission's opinion that this type of advertising  of others' listings is not in compliance with the statutes and regulations and such advertising should cease."

OMG!!!  I hate to do it but I can not afford to be fined so it looks as if I can no longer handshake. I would like to know more as to which statue or regulation it does not comply with ( notice that is not metioned) so how many want to start calling to find out? Any ideas would be great as this is a tool that I dont want to lose!

Mary T

Keller Williams Southland

Belton MO

816 456 9627

OK, so I am new to starting my own blogs. I have blogged a few times on some topics but am nowhere near the blogger that many of the rest of you are.  I discovered shortly after posting my own blog that I have a blog tab on my site now... along with several blogs (apparently to myself ...hmm not unlike the real life discussions LOL) created there that I was not even intending as a blog. Now I finally blogged on reliberation and my blog did a dissappearing act. So I found it on the P2 blog (which is how I apparently obtained & discovered the blog tab on my site) now I see that Cathy's blog has also moved. So what determines whether a blog stays on Relib or get shifted to P2? Is one better than the other?  I am like a cat with a new toy and am still trying to figure it all out.

Any suggestions?

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