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Mar 21, 2024 · Lower pay, intense competition for clients and a massive exodus of realtors. Those are some of the predictions that real estate professionals are making, anxiously, after the recent...
- 'A Complicated and Ugly Process'
- No Corruption Required
- Development and Its Discontents
Understanding the evil-developer trope requires understanding its history. One place to start would be with the Depression-era movies of Frank Capra. Capra directed two of the first major films with an evil-developer antagonist: 1938's You Can't Take It With You and the 1946 Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life. The former involves an unscrupulo...
As compelling as this explanation is, it's also incomplete. It's true that a lot of opposition to new development is motivated by a not-totally-unfounded view of developers as crony capitalists. But a lot of it isn't. NIMBYs rarely have qualms about opposing new projects that didn't receive special favors—sometimes projects whose developers bent ov...
"Change is good" is the oft-repeated line of Sheck, the bad-guy developer in the film-length adaption of Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold! That's often true, but it's much easier to sympathize with the protagonists in the movie who are resisting his attempts to bulldoze their neighborhood and who ask in response, "What's wrong with leaving things the way t...
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- Associate Editor
Apr 6, 2021 · Mistake #1: Lying. Have you ever inquired about a listing with incredible photos, only to go see it and find a different (much less impressive) unit altogether? Bait-and-switch tactics are not...
- Ryan Serhant
- Denise and Mark Don’t Exist (aka, the Truth About Door Knocking & Cold Calling) A few months ago, we had a property listed for sale. It had been on the market for about a month, when one day, our Sellers received a note in their door from a REALTOR
- Most REALTOR awards are BS. You’ve probably suspected this already, and I’m here to tell you: it’s true – a lot of REALTOR awards are BS. Most brokerages ‘award’ their agents every year for sales – you’ll see President’s Awards, Chairman’s Awards, Platinum Awards, Diamond Awards, 100% Club, #1 Awards, Top Producer and a whole bunch of other meaningless stuff.
- Some Agents Pay to Play. Get this: the agent on the cover of that magazine might have paid to be there. For example, Top Agent Magazine, which touts itself as featuring ‘the top-producing and most accomplished agents in the real estate industry’.
- It’s not a coincidence that that agent called you. Picture it: You’ve got your property listed for sale for 90 days. Much to your dismay, it doesn’t sell and the contract with your REALTOR expires.
To be honest, I think you are a very unusual real estate agent. For people purchasing or selling, a reasonable set of assumptions is "everything the real estate agent says is probably not true." For people renting, real estate agents regularly treat them like 3rd class citizens.
Sep 23, 2024 · Poor communication, no-show appointments — look for these 12 signs of a bad real estate agent so you can make a change.
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Dec 20, 2022 · For many people, homeownership is a largely beneficial enterprise, but for others, particularly young, middle-income and low-income families as well as Black people, it can be risky.
