Originally Published March 2026 for Piedmont Post
Those of you that are attorneys may be familiar with the saying, “The wheels of justice grind slow, but grind fine” well Lady Justice hold my beer because the wheels of municipal government have the option to grind at a pace that rivals Bleak [...]
Let me preface this by saying there will always be all cash $300k above asking price in two day offers to talk about, but those are now the exception and not the norm. Real estate is cyclical with each new market cycle bringing some fresh new hell for agents, buyers and sellers. And the fresh new hell for a lot of newer agents is the [...]
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED MARCH 2026 FOR REALTYTIMES.COM
Clients think the deal is done when the offer is accepted. That is the cute part. That is the Instagram moment. The real work starts the second the signatures dry. The paperwork is where deals live or die, and it is where most agents—especially new ones—get [...]
There is a lot of real estate topics agents don't talk about because, A) no one really knows anything about the topic, and B) it isn't "sexy." There are no glossy photos, no vanity videos, pod casts, bidding wars, and no closing day champagne. But basis is what keeps the tax man from taking a bigger slice of your pie than he's legally [...]
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FOR REALTYTIMES.COM MARCH 2026
The MLS was never about software or real estate platforms or monetizing data. It was about a group of competitors deciding they were better off sharing what they knew than hoarding [...]
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FOR @REALTYTIMES.COM MARCH 2026
That scene in Glengarry Glen Ross. Alec Baldwin’s Blake, the “always be closing” diatribe—coffees for closers, second prize is steak knives, third prize is you’re fired. It’s the cinematic shorthand for aggressive, high-pressure sales. It’s great cinema. It’s [...]
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED MARCH 2026 FOR @INMAN SELECT
Compass’s assault on the MLS: How a private deal with Redfin threatens the open market
The Multiple Listing Service has been the backbone of American real estate for over a century. It is the shared, transparent marketplace where every broker and buyer has equal access to inventory, where [...]
Real Estate 101: Dedicated Lands Explainer
I write these explainers to help me stay fresh on real estate areas I don’t get a chance to consistently work on but find fascinating. This explainer deals with how cities get parks and green [...]
The data war is here, and local MLS boards are losing because they still think they're in the cooperation business. Local boards had the freedom to be cooperative because, for decades, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) guarded our data from non-members like a dragon resting on a pile of gold and the cost of access was [...]
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED FOR REALTYTIMES.COM FEBRUARY 2026
Every week at brokerages, agents—both new and experienced—ask questions that get answered in varying degrees of correctness. The questioners usually grab on to this answer and charge directly back into [...]
