In the video below, a Las Vegas realtor compares an actual offer from Opendoor to what happened when he put the home on the open market. But it's the deceit that is note-worthy. The first number supplied by Opendoor was the average market time, which they said was 75...
Glenn Kelman of Redfin has been deceiving the public since the day they started the company, and he gets away with it because we don't have a watchdog department or any enforcement of truth-in-advertising. We live in a society where anybody can say anything and never...
https://twitter.com/bradInman/status/1011730002570719232 For an industry that has been stagnant and mostly unaffected by disintermediation/disruption over the last couple of decades, you get the feeling that change might be afoot now. It's asking a lot, but what we...
Being a realtor isn't as glamorous as it looks, because somebody has to handle the little problems too. Here the buyer's agent couldn't get the door open, and called me to do something about it. Once the sale is closed, most listing agents get busy with their next...
Choosing the right realtor to sell your home is critical. It's not life-or-death critical. We're just talking about the extra 5% to 10% that is available when effective marketing creates maximum urgency - and the agent's skills and salesmanship creates competition...
This guy popped off at the DOJ hearing a couple of weeks ago, and the story has kept making the rounds: So you think things don’t get rough in real estate and feathers don’t fly when agents’ commission money is at stake? Ha. Listen to what Joshua Hunt, founder and CEO...
Here's a good example of how sketchy the discounters are being with their advertising. It's bad enough when they claim that they provide the same service as traditional agents, without providing any proof. But this video - produced by Purplebricks themselves -...
Are you thinking of selling your home? If you're in a hurry, just contact me and we can get started right away. If you prefer to conduct a full investigation and make an educated decision, great - know the difference between honest salespeople and the order-takers or...
The cheerleaders have been saying that the fewer sales this year are being caused by less inventory. Is that the case? Looking at the detached-homes between La Jolla and Carlsbad, the number of houses being listed in 2018 looks about the same as in previous years. ...
The standard knee-jerk response about pocket listings is to insist that some sellers don't want to be on the open market for personal reasons, and that's fine. In reality, those should be limited to major Hollywood icons who are unsure of how much their star-power...
