Remember, now’s a great time to buy real estate….hey I remember saying that exact thing in 2004-05.

Hey, I guess it’s ALWAYS a great time to buy real estate, no?

Please explain to me how so little is done with so much.

Please start with why there is NO health care options worth mentioning.

Of course we did get the short sale white paper, which has solved all most a few next to none of the short sale issues.

I won’t complain about the $80, but I would like to see better use of these funds.

$7.2 million for economic and tech research? In light off how freakin dead wrong their economists have been, I have to assume they just paid some dip minimum wage to tell the world on a daily basis that “It’s a great time to buy real estate”. Given what was a wasted investment there, and they have no tech to speak about, please tell me they didnt spend the rest of it to get Carpenter a new laptop and wireless card so he can tweet on the road.

I would pay more to not have them discriminate against those who don’t pay on realtor.com.

Trulia and Zillow offer much more. If there was not a need they would not be growing as much. I remember a few years ago no seller had heard of them, not so now.

I also had to chuckle at the fact that $0 goes to “Volunteer Leadership”.

Thanks for showing me the value in that one. I thought those volunteers were rolling in the dough.

Alright, so I’m being a bit sarcastic, but they truly are amazing numbers. Do they give us the numbers on what’s being made outside our dues anywhere? I remember during the whole float debacle, they said that was paid for with non-dues money as well. How much is flowing in there? Would love to know. Do they get any of the cut for Realtor.com or is it just a flat fee? I hope they’re a least getting a percentage of the extortion, I mean, fees to upgrade listings.

It is pretty amazing that some of the outside sites like Trulia and Zillow actually offer you more bang for your zero bucks. I haven’t even visited Realtor.com in quite some time. I wish Trulia and Zillow could have data as accurate as Realtor.com, but to be honest, I’d rather use them.

I just need to figure out how to run my own national association – there’s gold in ‘dem ‘dar hills.

I wonder – does the NAR make money from the ads on R.com?