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\u201cWhy do<\/u> waiters serve the big tippers so much\u00a0better?\u201d<\/p><\/div>Every Buyer’s Agent knows how to kill a house. You walk into a pantry or a bathroom and you say, “Whoa! Do you smell that? A mustiness…? Maybe I’m wrong…” That house is now at the bottom of the stack. I’ve never done that belligerently \u2013 to kill a house that didn’t<\/em> have a fungus problem \u2013 but I’ve done it proactively many times. A Buyer’s Agent is the first line of defense against red flags.<\/p>\n But consider: Per this ridiculous NAR “settlement,” Buyer’s Agents are now supposed to abjure any knowledge of the Buyer’s Agent’s commission, and to operate as if incentives have no motivating power. Worse, as summarized in the headline and masticated to someone’s taste in the Inglorious Blob post cited below, the actual purpose of the lawsuit was to screw Buyer’s Agents \u2013 to forbid them from noticing they are being screwed by Realty.bots who cannot explain themselves to their customers.<\/p>\n Here’s a hint: If real estate commissions are too damn high, why aren’t Redfin and REX demanding to rebate the excess to the seller \u2013 you know, the party who is allegedly paying too damn much for the buyer’s representation?<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah. Who’s not full of shit? Meanwhile, listers who screw the hardest-working, worst-paid people in real estate should expect to hear more about an ineffable mustiness. You cannot forbid protozoa from pursuing their own interests. Why would you try that with people?<\/p>\n Yesterday on BloodhoundBlog, some thoughts on what Trump might be doing:<\/p>\n Greg Swann:<\/strong> \u201cDoc\u201d Holliday, Donald Trump and the art of the bluff.<\/a> Here’s the truth you might have guessed, knowing the world you’re in and who you are reading from: The storied gunfight at the OK Corral was a rent-seeker’s dispute over a shipping concession \u2013 the Earps, representing Wells Fargo, muscling in on a market controlled by the Sandy-Bob stage coach line. Ain’t that<\/em> America?<\/p>\n And elsewhere:<\/p>\n Rob Hahn:<\/strong> REX and the DOJ: Implications for the Future.<\/a> I did a house for $500 once. Foreclosure in self-sabotage. Bank wouldn’t pay and buyers never have cash \u2013 that<\/em> is Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cWhy do waiters serve the big tippers so much\u00a0better?\u201dEvery Buyer’s Agent knows how to kill a house. You walk into a pantry or a bathroom and you say, “Whoa! Do you smell that? A mustiness…? Maybe I’m wrong…” That house is now at the bottom of the stack. I’ve never done that belligerently \u2013 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":236,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/236\/how-to-exterminate-a-cowbird-a-comedy-in-three-acts\/","url_meta":{"origin":17526,"position":0},"title":"How to exterminate a cowbird — a comedy in three acts . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 23, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Act I -- Why Realtors hate discount listings... 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