Leveraging 25th Anniversary of Ralph Nader’s 1st speech on Real Estate
What’s best way to acknowledge the 25th Anniversary of #RalphNader’s 1st speech on Informal #RealEstate cartel?
We’ve begun seeding that question on RECALL’s MeetUp Group in Boston:
And more broadly on Inman Coast-to-Coast, a private Facebook group with over 12,000 leading tech-savvy real estate innovators, primarily traditional real estate agents. Here’s an excerpt on a long thread about publishing enforcement actions against real estate professionals. It underlines the importance of our correspondence with the Mass. Attorney General’s Office and Mass. Office of Consumer Affairs over that past year. The Mass. real estate board’s next meeting (http://bit.ly/MassREBrd110817) is November 8, the same day Ralph Nader returns to Harvard Law School.
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Marilyn Wilson I choose not to be a Realtor, in part, because the gap between the code of ethics and reality is scandalous. Tomorrow, October 28, marks the 25th Ralph Anniversary of Ralph Nader’s first speech calling the real estate on “informal cartel” (a phrase first used by the Consumer Federation of America).
What does the industry have to show for efforts to raise the bar over the past 25 years? Invite innovators inside and outside the industry to bring about long overdue reforms. Want to ramp up that effort before NAR hosts their annual convention in Boston a year from now?
As the image below shows, Nader will be back in Boston soon; and perhaps more important legal hackers experimenting with smart contracts, artificial intelligence, blockchain & CustomerTech have the real estate industry on their radar screen.
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Should we watch MIT’s Legal Forum offline as a group Monday & Tuesday, October 30 & 31? Let’s discuss that and invite other ideas on this thread before using Loomio’s tools to vote on options.
Poll Created Sun 29 Oct 2017 7:54PM
Rank best ways to leverage 25th Anniversary of Ralph Nader's 1st speech on Real Estate as an "informal cartel"? Closed Wed 8 Nov 2017 10:40PM
This is a working list of 10 options, please RANK and use comments to add your own ideas.
Invite others to cast votes, join the collaboration on http://RE2020.Loomio.org, follow & use the hashtag #RE2020
Results
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Host a VIRTUAL viewing party to watch #MITLegalForum 10/30-31 | 1 | 18.2% | 10 | 10.0 | ||
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Invite up to 7 people who heard his speech 25 years ago to participate in a podcast using @Anchor | 2 | 16.4% | 9 | 9.0 | ||
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Try to get a private audience with Ralph briefly after his upcoming presentation at Harvard Law School, 11/8/17 | 3 | 14.5% | 8 | 8.0 | ||
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Attend Ralph's presentation at Harvard Law School, and host our own informal conversation | 4 | 12.7% | 7 | 7.0 | ||
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Combine attendance at Ralph's presentation 11/8, with debriefing of NAR convention the previous week | 5 | 10.9% | 6 | 6.0 | ||
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Attend next RE Board Meeting 11/8, same day as Nader visit, to present list of 10 real estate issues | 6 | 9.1% | 5 | 5.0 | ||
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Meet Monday night at ImpactHubBos (50 Milk St, Boston) to debrief #MITLegalForum, #RESO Meeting, preview NAR annual meeting in Chicago, 11/1-6/17 | 7 | 7.3% | 4 | 4.0 | ||
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Watch #MITLegalForum 10/30-31 as a group OFFLINE to exchange insights in real-time | 8 | 5.5% | 3 | 3.0 | ||
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Develop strategy to energize #RE2020, a collaborative effort to reform the RE industry by 2020 | 9 | 3.6% | 2 | 2.0 | ||
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Host a private party at secret location to review press, files, etc from 25 yrs ago, | 10 | 1.8% | 1 | 1.0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 0 | 0 |
1 of 16 people have participated (6%)
Bill Wendel Mon 30 Oct 2017 2:37AM
If you’d like to vote on / or rank the proposed ways to leverage the anniversary of Nader’s first speech on real estate, his visit on 11/8 or watching the #MITLegalForum, simply request access to RE2020 site using links on screen.
Bill Wendel Mon 30 Oct 2017 4:44PM
Missed today's webcast from #MITLegalForum? Here's the rebroadcast http://mitlegalforum.org/live/ and detailed schedule for tomorrow https://mitlegalforum2017.sched.com
Bill Wendel · Sat 28 Oct 2017 7:03PM
Use #MITLegalForum http://bit.ly/MITLegalOct17 to identify ways to deliver #RealEstate reforms & $30B in savings http://bit.ly/Back2Billions #RE2020