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NAR's annual Member Survey just came out for 2012 giving us lots of data about members and how they did business in 2011. I went straight to stuff about their Web presence and the business it generates for them, and it was pretty depressing. Thus this headline.
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The NAR Member Profile for 2012 is out, and you can download it here. There is a lot of information about NAR members, but for this post, just a few website numbers I thought were interesting.
I have written about this before, but it keeps happening so I keep ranting in the hopes that some real estate agents will figure out that some spam avoidance mechanisms are costing them perhaps thousands of dollars every year! Apparently, someone subscribed to one of my courses, and here's part of the email I got back:
OK, so I wanted a headline to get your attention. However, I don't believe that open houses do anything to sell the subject homes in 99%+ of cases, and NAR's annual survey pretty much verifies that. Here's an open house article quoting Realtors who like them, those who do not, and a consumer advocate who tells buyers and sellers to "just say no" to open houses.