In a world that often seems so unfair there is a travesty of justice unfolding in Sarasota Florida where the Sarasota Association of REALTORS ® has unfairly taken away one of their own members domain names that he spent five years optimizing to rank number one on the search engines for many terms in his area. SAR has now 301 redirected that domain name to their own web site.
This quote is taken right from their website;
The Code of Ethics that all Realtors® abide by separates Realtors® from real estate agents. By becoming a member of the Sarasota Association of Realtors®, a real estate agent agrees to “take an extra professional step” and embrace and comply with the Code of Ethics.
Because of their greed and envy of one of their own members, they’re violating their own professional standards. Rather than repeat what many have already said I have included links to many articles around the Internet pertaining to this issue, and…
Take note of the NO SARjacking badge on the right, click on it to read about this case there first. Then for more information follow the links below.
Sarasota Association of Realtors on Squidoo
Marc Rasmussen vs. Sarasota Association of Realtors over thesarasotamls.com
Sarasota Association of Realtors – SAR
Rasmussen v. Sarasota Association of Realtors, Inc
“MLS” Name Dispute Lands In Cout
The Sarasota MLS
Sarasota Association of Realtors takes down its own member
Sarasota Association of Realtors – The Real Cybersquat
Sarasota Association of Realtors (SAR) – Slaps One of its Own
From these links you will be able to find a huge amount of information on this case.
EDIT: I had a couple cool videos from Youtube that I felt helped me express my feelings towards SAR. But WMG shut down 10’s of thousands of videos on Youtube for copyright claims. So not only does SAR suck, but so does Warner Music Group.
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Hey Dennis:
Love the “Kid expression”
Hi Dennis,
Nice post on the nasty Sarasota Board of REALTORS crime spree. I wrote on this subject as well. http://www.nj-realestate-agent.com/board-of-realtors-gone-rabid-sarasota-mls-board-out-for-blood/ Please feel free to digg it, or propell it, or technorati it or whatever you do. I will do the same to yours.
Mine is showing up on the first page of google for sarasota board of realtors and sarasota mls board and board of realtors out for blood
Jim
Hey Dennis! Love the video. Was the bikini clad lady at the beginning of Kid Rock’s video the President of SAR?
Joe, not the first one that’s Pam Anderson, you mean one of the twins, lol.
Hey Dennis,
Everyone appreciates your help in this. Hey I found a site similar to ‘thesarasotamls.com’
I think if that if had some links it could be a great feeder to marc’s new site – dang, maybe we can find who owns it… Good thing that guy isn’t a REALTOR.
Your right, he is not a REALTOR(r), but he is a friend I just talked with last month in Nanaimo.
I think he’d remember you.
I didn’t know you had this blog ’til today – I’ve bookmarked it.
Ah he would remember eating at The Keg with us.
hey I’m just the host;)
But, the Keg was GRUB! Wish you hit the Red martini afterward though…
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Hey Dennis,
I see you’re getting talked about with the trackbacks:)
Want to know if I’m seeing things or did you change your banner last night?
knox
Yes, I changed it. Hehe, I thought it should match the title.
What do you think of the new one?
It’s probably on e of the most bizarre images I’ve seen in a while:) It’s got a candy/nightmare before x-mas feel.
I actually like it a lot.
k
Marc wrote a post about the timeline of events, so I added that to the top of links above.
Another must read article is from the Sarasota Herald Tribune newspaper
Man fights Sarasota Association of Realtors over a Web address .
It seems to me the Sarasota Association of Realtors have some real ethics problems of their own. Cherry is doing his job as lawyers do, twisting this into something its not and trying to hide their real motives. He’s not very good at it.
Hi Dennis, remember me in Canada? I wasn’t in class but I was at dinner! I’m totally getting into blogs now after that trip and you guys were awesome. Knox is getting one set for me and by the next time we meet up next time I’ll be good enough to sit in class with you. It rocks to read how everyone pulls together when one of you gets bullied. I hope this real estate domain get straightened out. Maybe Marc could go up there too because he’s a little famous now!
Hello Jaz, of course I remember. That was a great time, wasn’t it? You will have to let me know when you get that blog up. Hey you guys had some great pictures from the trip too.
It is great having so many good friends that are willing to come together for any cause. Building relationships is exactly what Eric Blackwell emphasized. We are like you, already looking forward to next years trip.
Thanks for stopping by.
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First of all congratulation for such a great site. I learned a lot reading article here today. I will make sure i visit this site once a day so i can learn more.
I sure hope Marc gets satisfaction in the end. It seems like heads should roll on the SAR board.
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