Thanks for the links. The results are disconcerting. On the Keller Williams site,
a typical listing of a KW listed house does not give the street address. It does
have pictures.. Then look at the same listing on the Coldwell Banker site. The CB
site gives the street address (great, you can preview by driving by) but it says
no pictures available. On KW, there is a house listed by CB, but that house does
not appear on the CB site insofar as search by zipcode could determine. This must
mean that the data is in-house manipulated somehow because it is not a feed of
identical MLS database info.

More importantly, did you notice when you used the KW site that you have already
agreed by the terms of the site to using KW in East Cobb as your buyer broker for
any house you looked at on the site for the next 90 days. Very Sinister!!! Note
that if you look at a house say in South Atlanta on the KW site, you are signing
on to use an agent from East Cobb as your buyer broker. What are the chances they
could even find South Atlanta?

I searched in an area in which I am familiar but that I have no interest in now
just to test the site so I readily agree that if we buy one of those I looked at
we will hire KW as the broker.

The CB site has a private and public section. On the private, you have to be their
client to use it, so the terms must be similar, but there is a public site where
you apparently are not pre agreeing to anything. This is an improvement, I hope,
over the CB site in our area. A few years ago, it still had listed as on the
market a house a relative owns that was sold 3 years earlier. Yes, 3 years
earlier. I called the CB listing office as a courtesy and was told that they had
nothing to do with what was on their site, it was done at some other location.
They were indifferent to the incorrect listing. (It was not a valid listing but it
still could draw phone calls of interested parties and they could talk to them
about something else.) I haven't looked lately to see if it is still there, but
with that level of non-concern, it may be.

We will include the CB public site for some preliminary research. We will not use
the KW site because of the terms.





Dan wrote:

SkyBlue wrote:

By the way, you can help me. You are researching local homes by yourself
how? Is there a firm in Atlanta that has the MLS listings on-line? There are

There are several web sites with atlanta area MLS onlien. I dont like
realtor.com's interface very well, so I have mostly used:

http://www.coldwellbankeratlanta.com/frame.cfm
http://mc.kw.com/Cobb/pages/frame_mls.php

coldwell banker's interface is easier (to me), but sometimes the kw.com
site has pictures for houses that coldwell banekr does not.

Thanks for your input