I'ts incredible how many businesses revolve around this, you have the obvious ones like Lexus Nexis, but even more in the housing space you have the regional ML

I'ts incredible how many businesses revolve around this, you have the obvious ones like Lexus Nexis, but even more in the housing space you have the regional MLS's sole purpose of existence is to be the keeper of the data. Again in the housing space companies like First American just index the public records data. I can't say just because it's on an API with good documentation there's anything positive to come from paid access to open data. It's just a business model that seems wrong.