I’m going to try to do a bit of a stream-of-consciousness “live-blog” here at Houston Association of REALTORS Real Estate Investment Symposium. I put that in quotes because (a) I’m distracted often, and (b) the bandwidth isn’t the best off my little MiFi device. I’ve already missed a couple of the early presentations from Zillow, … Read more
So earlier today, I get an interesting email from our form on 7DSAssociates.com: First Name: NAR Last Name: Scandal Email Address: info@narscandal.com Company: NARscandal.com Title: Phone: Comments: Breaking News! New Scandal at the NAR Exclusive from NARscandal.com A new scandal is brewing over at the National Association of Realtors and we at (www.NARscandal.com) have the … Read more
I love this new post by Brian Boero over at 1000watt blog. Go read it in its entirety, right now. I’ll still be here. Back? Okay, I don’t have a lot of time today to do one of my traditional 9,000 word essay, but this post raises such a set of good points that I … Read more
Starting a few years ago, I’ve been hearing a lot about how the Gen-Y or Millenials (people aged anywhere from 18 to 30 today) are going to change everything — but particularly in real estate. A random sampling of opinions about how the Millenials will affect real estate, from a Google search I just ran, … Read more
There is a viral YouTube video going around right now, a “parody/spoof” of Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” with Alicia Keys. Here it is, in case you haven’t seen it: I understand that the people behind the video, one Pantless Knights, were making a parody. I hope to God that they’re ridiculing the people being … Read more
There is an interesting little dichotomy in the results of the survey that Inman ran recently, and published as a Special Report: “To Be A Broker: Charting a Course for Recovery“. It’ll cost ya some money, unless you’re an Inman Premium subscriber, but I think Inman did a great job here in putting the information … Read more
I got a couple of requests via email/DM for this so… This is the rent-buy worksheet I used while writing my latest Inman column (subscription required). I took it from Khan Academy and then modified it. Feel free to point out errors, etc. right in the comments, and I’ll modify what I can. 🙂 Rent/Buy … Read more
Once again, I find myself in the curious position of praising the good folks at RPR while at the same time ending up on a negative note. On the one hand, RPR’s posting their Content License Agreement (complete with redlined corrections) is by far the most transparent thing that I’ve seen a company do in … Read more
Once in a while, realestistas get around to discussing tame, non-controversial topics. And as any regular reader of this blog knows, I am simply allergic to controversy and disagreement. I am glad, therefore, that people are talking over at Agent Genius about the entirely boring and controversy-free topic of dual agency. As it happens, I … Read more