Chicken Little and the Future of Real Estate

Foxy Loxy : “This is the Voice of Doom speaking! Special bulletin! Flash! The sky is falling! A piece of it just hit you on the head! Now be calm. Don’t get panicky. Run for your life!”  – Chicken Little…

What Does a Buyer Agent do?

BuyersWaiting

The real estate industry has evolved. Buyers now have access to property information without relying on a real estate professional, and the world recognizes buyer representation as a specialty for agents, but those changes have brought with them certain issues of their own

Houses Don’t Sell Themselves – Ever!

do houses sell themselves

Ever hear the phrase “the house sold itself”? I think its nonsense – salespeople sell houses, they don’t sell themselves. Ever. And buyers are far better off because they do.

Does Anyone Win the Ratings Game?

It seems everyone has an opinion about agent ratings.There are those that advocate for agent ratings, those that fear agent ratings, and those that see them as inevitable. Everyone that is aware of the phenomenon has an opinion or finds one very quickly

Why Agents Aren’t Employees

The Raise the Bar Facebook group is always a fun place for me to visit. Its ostensibly a conversation about “raising the bar” (increasing professionalism) in the real estate business by people in the real estate business, but the conversation seems to meander all…

Rethinking the Future

Rob Hahn and I spend a lot of time going back and forth about the current state of the real estate industry and its future. We both write and talk about it, and spend our time in conversation with people…