I spent three days in Scottsdale last week where I participated in several sessions at Leading Real Estate Companies of the World’s Future Tense 2009 conference. Amid the golden Arizona sunshine and within the Westin Kierland, one distinct sentiment echoed throughout: The current brokerage model is broken. Throughout the day it danced around the panels [...]
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Lightening Crashes, an old newspaper dies
In the ’90′s, the band Live scored its biggest hit with this song. I was fortunate enough to have spent a few days on the road with the group beginning with the kick-off concert at Hershey Park. The premise of the song is simple. Death. Rebirth. These elements are described through the passing of an [...]
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The venom of the crowd
[Warning: A rant - or maybe, more accurately, a sustained wail - follows.] I received the following in the mail one day last week: A “personal note” from an agent who lives thirty minutes from my home but claims to be my new neighbor and a Redwood Heights (my neighborhood) “specialist” A glossy, card stock [...]
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You can’t always get what you want, but sometimes, you get what you need
These days we don’t throw away tubes of toothpaste until we’ve squeezed them dry. It’s amazing how much more we can crank out of them. Long after we considered them done. Here Ye, Here Ye It seems each time I publish a post that offers my Blue Ocean view of print media, I stir up [...]
No irony here, keep moving…
Thanks to Matt Dollinger for passing along this photo of NAR HQ in Chicago…
A 1000watt makeover
In case you haven’t noticed, we have redesigned our site and blog. I hope you like it as much as we do. I am quite sure we’ve made some obvious mistakes. We’ve been so close to this for the past couple weeks. So we welcome your feedback, positive or negative. A few things to note: [...]
Transparency, Socrates and the Red Pill
“When people feel information is being withheld from them, they become even more skeptical and their trust begins to wane.” — Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. For months he demanded greater transparency from AIG. And for months information regarding who benefited…
Two new online real estate companies that snuck by me
Crazy busy this week. Not much time for blogging (or eating, or showering…). But real quick: Here are a couple interesting online real estate sites that launched recently that I somehow missed despite a fair amount of media coverage outside…
Replaced
Nicole sat across the dinner table from us Friday night. She was not her usual positive self. Something happened. I decided to pry. Replaced A former actress, Nicole followed her true calling behind the camera. She did film. Music videos….
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This “office of the future” thing is starting to catch fire
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First it was NRT’s Manhattan Beach Project. That was circa 2005, a year following a presentation Brian and I gave the folks at NRT about the paperless office. Then it was Intero’s Andare office on Santana Row, which has been…