The door for Wynd Realty was opened by the National Association of Realtors’ inability to articulate its value-added message. It was — and continues to be today — easy to craft an agnostic board pitch; it writes itself.Even in 2008, there were plenty of websites pointing to anti-NAR information. The fact that in the previous decade NAR outspent the good ole’ boys of the oil and gas lobby was always good for a quote.The ongoing legal battles of the newly installed NAR president of the time — elected to turn things around — always got an eye roll. Even today, NAR’s spending turns stomachs.Koch Industries spent $14 million lobbying in 2014? Comcast and Google, both large lobbyists, combined to spend only $34 million.Ask an agent with four or five sales a year what he thinks of the $55 mill...
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