Realtors want private service, and that's what I provide. MLS updates those figures daily and collates them for publication. It's not just a question of putting the facts in, but of confirming them. That's what MLS does. There's a zillion Internet Web sites out there.
Someone has to cleanse the data and put it in a consumer-friendly form.
That's the future of the Peter Shuttleworths out there. But 800 is a lot of MLS offices in an industry pushing toward a borderless, condensed force. But it will provide more umbrella services, customized business data. And they'll need someone with management skills, who creates business strategies, to help run their organization. They'll need my staff.