Terms like “buyer’s market” and “seller’s market” are frustrating to me because they’re often used thoughtlessly. These terms are useful to describe large-scale trends, but they lead people to make faulty assumptions about...
Do agents have to disclose nearby construction projects to buyers? The clear, black-and-white answer is… kind of! As you’d expect, some states require more disclosure than others. For example, in North Carolina, the Real Estate Commission requires...
I’d rather be lied to by AI than by a human. Perhaps that’s just me, but the nice thing about AI being untruthful is that you can immediately call it out, and it can’t walk away. When you call out a human for being dishonest, you have to deal with...
Lurking behind almost every home sale price is a shadow sale price that the market will never discover. This is a key reason why relying on AI for sale price info can be extremely misleading; AI only uses publicly available pricing data. Seller credits, rate buydowns,...
Do the words “hard money loan,” “dragnet clause,” and “private lending” scare you? They should, but they can also save you a ton of money and time. These terms are features of cross-collateral loans, which can help an average loan...
Stealing real estate is so annoying because you can’t just physically take it, and you can’t hide it anywhere. As proof that anything’s possible if you put your mind to it, scammers have figured out how to steal properties by bypassing the physical...
