Anyone who has ever done any self promotion knows how difficult it can be. The little voices of doubt inside work to keep you down. “You’re not that good.” “You don’t know what you’re doing.” “You can’t succeed.” When those voices become a paralyzing distraction, you need to go look in the mirror and say, “Hot damn, I’m great.” California realtors have launched a new promotional campaign. To judge by the videos they produce, you would think they are great. [Read More...]

There is a new scam in real estate that can only be accomplished by an agent, most often a realtor because most real estate agents are realtors, but there are likely some independent brokers caught up in this as well. The realtor must shirk their fiduciary responsibility to their client and knowingly tell lies to that client, usually a lender but sometimes a short-seller, to get them to sell property for less than it’s really worth in the market in [Read More...]

Really biased and misleading crap is common on realtor blogs, which is why nobody reads them. When realtors are allowed to post their bluster as news on the OC Register, many people take it as information rather than indoctrination. It soils the OC Register when they permit this. Published: March 7, 2011 Updated: 5:25 p.m. California had no real estate bubble MIKE COTTER Mike@MCotter.com Nearly everyone accepts as fact the perception that California real estate prices “skyrocketed” into the stratosphere [Read More...]

realtors don’t stop finding reasons to buy until buyers have enough. It doesn’t matter if the reasons are good or bad, they just needs to be plausible and salable. Yesterday, I pilloried a hapless realtor spouting nonsense, and today, I want to explore why realtors are responsible for the rubbish they promote. I want to start by saying that there are many good Realtors (deserving of a capital “R”), and they are as dismayed about the practices in their profession [Read More...]