Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Charge 6%

Football, Baseball, Basketball and now Realtor Baiting.

Bear Baiting is banned in most States, but  Realtor Baiting is alive and well.

They used to call Baseball, "America's Favorite Pastime". But Realtor Baiting or Realtor Bashing now surpasses Hockey as America's fourth favorite sport. There's a Realtor Basher behind every landscaping rock.

Donald Trump, arguably America's most famous Real Estate Agent, may not even get his show, The Apprentice, picked-up for next year. But the Democrats are still hoping "Flip This House" doesn't get picked-up for 2008.

The DOJ and the FTC seem to have nothing nice to say about our hiding our listing data.

Tony Soprano had an affair with his Real Estate Agent. I wonder when she took her last mandated Realtor Ethics Course? So much for being professionals like Doctors and Lawyers. I'm not filing a grievance on Julianna Margulies any time soon, though. And the DOJ seems to be closer to busting the NAR then Tony.

Where are our political buddies when we need them? Where are our friends in high places who gave us the Statutory Non-Employee, the deductibility of mortgage interest, and agent mandatory levels of service, when we could use some political cover?  Don't they know our direct mail costs just went up 2 cents a letter?

In Freakonomics, Realtors and the NAR are compared to the KKK, although somewhat favorably. I wonder what their yearly dues are? Do they have an MLS?

Freud had his 7% solution. Why can't we keep our 6% solution?

Now Sixty Minutes gives us hours of conversation. Leslie Stahl seemed to have no problem finding Internet Sales Models, Discount Sales Models and happy "Do-IT-Yourselfers". But they couldn't find an NAR spokesman or a Realtor with the right scripts. Where's Mike Ferry when we need him?

Got Scripts?

Adapt Or Die!  Happy Searching.

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