As featured in Inman News. Do you know the pivotal moment that has allowed anyone on U.S. soil to imagine their dream home? Hint: It has to do with today’s federal holiday. For a quick primer, learn more in this 1-minute video lesson: click hereAs...
Despite rising unaffordability, we in the “real estate biz” know that homeownership is still a fantastic way to build generational wealth! Speaking of the devil (rising unaffordability), do you know these “3 steps real estate agents can take to make...
As featured in Inman News. How unfair housing feels: upside down. Image by Leopictures from Pixabay. Between social media comments and the classes I teach, I keep running across people – more specifically, those of us who should be the most well-vers...
As featured in the National Assoc. of REALTORS YPN Blog. Image by JALAL SHEIKH from Pixabay. In many parts of the nation, unaffordability is bringing the housing market to a stalemate. As real estate pros, we may not be able to directly alter interes...
As featured in Inman News. Did you know over the last one hundred and “fifty-ish” years (starting roughly with the first unofficial fair housing act, the Civil Rights Act of 1866), tensions outside of the U.S. have put U.S. fair housing in jeopardy f...
As featured in RealtorMag's YPN Lounge with an excerpt from How to Be a Fair Housing DECODER©. Image by Ed Hathaway from Pixabay. Are you working with clients who might have family land that they don’t remember? What about in your own family? You ma...
As featured in Inman News. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” Charles Dickens wrote in A "Tale of Two Cities". And that’s probably what many agents feel about the current landscape and messaging coming from leadership at the Nat...
As featured in RealtorMag. Image by kirstyfields from Pixabay Instagram is still a powerful platform for real estate agents and brokers to market themselves and connect with potential clients. While it may seem like a gold rush for many in the real e...
As featured in Inman News. Image by Ralph from Pixabay. Captain Obvious: In many parts of the U.S., we are in a housing shortage. There is a desperate need for more inventory, with NAR estimating that 320,000 homes are needed across the nation to ba...
As featured in my monthly Inman News column. Image by Mark Thomas from Pixabay. Did you know women make up 62% of REALTOR® but are woefully underrepresented in firm leadership and management?Also, did you know according to the 2020 U.S. Census, Peop...