Is the U.S. Model Defensible vs. the UK Model?

I’ve been traveling almost every day for three weeks, so I know blogging has been very light. The projects I’m involved in now are fun as hell, hard as hell, and important as hell, so they kind of fit all my criteria for good stuff. But in any event, I thought I’d spend a few … Read more

What If Real Estate Brokers Worked Like Car Dealerships?

My friend Eric Stegemann, whom many of you already know as a frikkin’ brilliant dude who runs Tribus, posted something on Facebook today and in our banter, got my thinking going. Here’s his post: [fb_embed_post href=”https://www.facebook.com/ericstegemann/posts/10100343757120490/” width=”550″/] And obviously, you can see my comments too. I thought the similarities between car dealers and how they … Read more

Brief Post: Why Young People Don’t Become Real Estate Agents

Over on Facebook, my friend Nick Solis is on a roll about the aging REALTOR population. [fb_embed_post href=”https://www.facebook.com/nick.solis2/posts/891536880918213/” width=”550″/] There are some good points being made over there mostly from younger REALTOR types. But I don’t think the issue is all that complicated. So before I go board this plane, I thought I’d jot a few … Read more

Brief Post: Why Young People Don't Become Real Estate Agents

Over on Facebook, my friend Nick Solis is on a roll about the aging REALTOR population. [fb_embed_post href=”https://www.facebook.com/nick.solis2/posts/891536880918213/” width=”550″/] There are some good points being made over there mostly from younger REALTOR types. But I don’t think the issue is all that complicated. So before I go board this plane, I thought I’d jot a few … Read more

Brief Post: Why Young People Don't Become Real Estate Agents

Over on Facebook, my friend Nick Solis is on a roll about the aging REALTOR population. [fb_embed_post href=”https://www.facebook.com/nick.solis2/posts/891536880918213/” width=”550″/] There are some good points being made over there mostly from younger REALTOR types. But I don’t think the issue is all that complicated. So before I go board this plane, I thought I’d jot a few … Read more

Reading the Union Position on Monell v. Boston Pads

As my readers know, the recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) handed down its ruling in Monell v. Boston Pads. I wrote about that case and cautioned against irrational exuberance from the results, because the results were not exactly a huge victory for the real estate industry’s position. Thing is, Bararsani v. Coldwell Banker, the … Read more

NextMLS: RPR Upstream/AMP and the Value of the MLS

I love James Dwiggins, CEO of Nexthome. He’s a really sharp guy who knows the business inside and out, backwards and forwards. And I think his perspective is somewhat representative of the more enlightened brokers who truly get technology, its uses, and its limitations. So when he posts this on Facebook earlier today, I thought … Read more

Transparency in Bidding… A Question That May or May Not Be Hypothetical

Let me tell you a story. It may be fiction, it may be nonfiction. It’s about a man, who may or may not be a Ivy League-educated lawyer who is the chief counsel for a Democrat Congresswoman with enormous power in the House. Let’s say his name is Dave. He may or may not be … Read more