[Boomer]

There are lots of TV homes listed on Zillow, realtor.com, and Redfin -- and probably other such sites that I have not heard of yet.

It looks like they simply harvest MLS listings from everywhere. Easy enough to do, I guess and good advertising for realtors. But the VLS is different and not listed in the MLS, so maybe that's it.

Zillow, and those like it, would not exist without the MLS, so it is a symbiotic relationship.

But I don't see how Zillow and the others would really need the VLS, so I wonder how it got there in the first place. Maybe there is a separate kind of agreement necessary to deal with sellers outside the MLS and maybe it has not worked out for the VLS......

But I really have no idea.

Boomer