Here is the first homepage used by REALTOR.com. I created the first REALTOR.com presentations and delivered them across the US, and at the Convention in Atlanta. State of the art were color, acetate overheads (Portrait).
RIN had two sides, the public side and the private side. The public side was Realtor.com. The private side was the RIN Network Desktop. Here is the first convention handout.
NAR Trade Show and Conference – November 1995.
Trade Show Talking Points for Leadership. This was a big launch. Bob Goldberg had arranged for a motorized derigible to fly around the convention center. Rhoda, NAR Staffer who ran conventions, said no…something about insurance. I think Bob flew the ballon anyway.
Richard Janssen had approximately 50 kiosks at Long’s Drug Stores around San Diego County in 1993. He had a contract for the “digital display” of listings placed by brokers into the Sandicor MLS. Caution: Avoid looking like “Public Access to MLS.” The MLS public access issue was very controversial in the early 1990s. Some members of the public argued that MLS should be regulated like a public utility.
