http://www.yattermatters.com/real-estate/how-many-biffies/ Insight on Vancouver Real Estate Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:56:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.yattermatters.com/real-estate/how-many-biffies/comment-page-1/#comment-20148 Real Estate Shake Up! (Not) « The Best Real Estate Anywhere! Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:01:39 +0000 http://www.yattermatters.com/?p=7227#comment-20148 [...] First things first. The MLS is created, funded and maintained by realtors. More simply put, we make it, pay for it, and we own it. Put more simply still, its ours, and nobody else’s. We own the information in it, subject to compliance with privacy legislation, as a result of obtaining copyright to it through contracts. Most reasonable people agree that if you make and pay for something, its your property, and you have a right to use it in any legal fashion. The fact that someone else envies your property doesn’t diminish your ownership of it (although I’d love to see a clearly articulated counter argument to that – the best I’ve seen so far is Larry Yatkowsky’s “…that we all know a good REA... [...] [...] First things first. The MLS is created, funded and maintained by realtors. More simply put, we make it, pay for it, and we own it. Put more simply still, its ours, and nobody else’s. We own the information in it, subject to compliance with privacy legislation, as a result of obtaining copyright to it through contracts. Most reasonable people agree that if you make and pay for something, its your property, and you have a right to use it in any legal fashion. The fact that someone else envies your property doesn’t diminish your ownership of it (although I’d love to see a clearly articulated counter argument to that – the best I’ve seen so far is Larry Yatkowsky’s “…that we all know a good REA… [...]

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