It doesn’t feel reassuring to see a real estate listing advertising a 1.5 bath condo, and then see in the property details that there are “1.1 bathrooms.” This is frequently confusing for buyers, and is something real estate agents have to clarify...
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 you think that dual agency has a clear and consistent definition, and do you believe the myth that dual agency is illegal in some states? If so, then you might not entirely understand how it works. I say this as someone who used to think I knew what dual agency...
