Rob Hahn 
Well, so I guess I forgot to do this last year so I can’t call it an annual tradition anymore. But it’s that time of the year to grade myself on predictions made and how I did. We’ll do a double-header this time, grading both the 2018 Predictions (link goes to Inman.com) and the 2019 … Read more
Welcome to another issue of Quick Takes. Notorious TL;DR Since we last did a Quick Take, here are the new posts up on Notorious. Because ’tis the season, to be jolly of course, but also the season for a number of annual traditions here with enormous end-of-the-year posts, writing has been and will be a … Read more
Earlier this year, Sunny and I made her third (my second) move across this great country of ours in three years, landing in Las Vegas. I have to say, so far, we’re quite in love with this city. Most of you only know Las Vegas from The Strip… which is unfortunate. It’s quite like judging … Read more
So apparently, a bug in my Mailchimp meant that the last two Quick Takes did not go out. I have the dev fixing it right now, but that still means I have to write it. I apologize for all the technical difficulties; I hope to have all of that addressed soon with a new website. … Read more
I was on a conference call earlier with a client discussing an upcoming strategy planning session, and one of the people raised a very interesting and a very good point. He said that if we don’t clearly define the problems, it’s very difficult to do good strategy. I couldn’t agree more. But as we kept … Read more
Over at Forbes, Peter Smirniotopoulos, a Contributor who writes about real estate, penned an article titled, “AI, and iBuyers, Oh My! Are There Structural Limits to PropTech?” It is such a great example of how mistaken Wall Street people are about the iBuyer phenomenon and how confused some of the smartest people in the world … Read more
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Happy Friday, everybody. Has it really been almost a month since I did one of these? It sure does look that way, since my last real Quick Takes was on 11/1. Mea culpa! Mea maxima culpa! My only excuse is that I made poor choices as a young man, which led to becoming a consultant … Read more
I am alternatively furious and despondent that this post has to be written in 2019. But it has to be. In case you missed it, Newsday, the local newspaper for most of Long Island in New York, ran a three year investigation into racial discrimination and steering in real estate. They just published their findings … Read more