{"id":640,"date":"2006-11-15T12:05:43","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T19:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=640"},"modified":"2006-11-15T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T19:07:13","slug":"meeting-russell-shaw-it-turns-out-there-is-no-topic-of-conversation-except-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/640\/meeting-russell-shaw-it-turns-out-there-is-no-topic-of-conversation-except-real-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Russell Shaw: It turns out there is no topic of conversation except real estate . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Years ago, when I lived in Boston, I knew a computer programmer who had no interest in computers outside of work — not even to use<\/i>, much less play with. I thought this was so weird, because my work completely dominates my attention. It’s all I think about, it’s all I want to talk about, it’s there in the back of my mind no matter what I’m doing.<\/p>\n

When Todd Tarson came to visit us<\/a>, we talked about real estate for every minute he had to spare.<\/p>\n

Last night Cathy and I met Russell Shaw in person for the first time. We closed a Mimi’s Restaurant. We got together at 7:30 p.m. and left at midnight, just before they called the cops on us. No liquor, mind you — iced tea, cappuccino and ice-water. But we were drunk all the same, awash in ideas.<\/p>\n

We talked about real estate the whole time. Russell is very smart, and very forthcoming with information — as you know from reading him here. We covered a vast horde of topics, from tiny marketing details to big-picture analysis of the NAR\/DOJ\/FTC fiasc-o-thon.<\/p>\n

It was an amazingly wonderful evening for me — my birthday, by chance — entirely my style of living. Cathy has been making notes from memory all morning.<\/p>\n

Here’s one concrete plan that came out of our scheming:<\/p>\n

We’re going to debate Dual Agency in BloodhoundBlog, with Russell on the affirmative and me on the negative.<\/p>\n

Russell is all over the idea that, while forbidding Dual Agency with buyers can make sense for us, we should not rule it out for sellers. He makes a very compelling case, and he may yet carry the day.<\/p>\n

But, as the the great Arizona patriot Sam Steiger used to say, we’re just a wave, we’re not the water. The issue is bigger than either one of us can cover. I know there are many stout defenders of Dual Agency from whom we have heard nothing. Opponents may have arguments we have not yet considered. Either way, marshall your positions and tell us what we’re getting wrong.<\/p>\n

I’ll post something in the next day or two. With Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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