Tag Archives: out with the old real estate agent business model

I Told You It Was A Going Out Of Business Sale!

On January 8, 2008, there was a blog posting here that caused quite the firestorm. In that post it was stated that it sure seemed to us like the National Association of Realtors had decided not to answer the bell and was in effect commencing a going out of business sale. Well today, there’s more [...]

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How Would I Justify My Commission?

Over the last week or so, I wrote a couple of posts relative to defending the almighty sacrosanct real estate commission.

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The Listing Addendum Every Seller Must Have And Most Agents Will Never Agree To

  Last week there was a lot of chatter on real estate industry blogs about the Ummel case in Carlsbad, California in which a client has taken her real estate agent to task over alleged misrepresentation and incompetency. As can be expected, many major news media organizations have picked up on the story and it [...]

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What’s In and What’s Out For 2008

  I have to say that every once in a while I find myself picking up one of those magazines you see on the rack just as you are about to checkout in the grocery lines. Whether it be the one about another Elvis sighting, or the one about which celebrity is fat now, or [...]

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Uh Oh….Now The Games Are Truly Beginning!

In what is undoubtedly the first of many to come, real estate agents are now going to begin getting sued for their involvement in real estate transactions. Nothing else, will hasten the demise of the real estate agent than lawsuits being levied against them. The once impenetrable feeling of hiding behind an ambiguous listing agreement [...]

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