RK Ruthman

Peter, thanks for the mention (sort of) ;) I agree with most of what you are saying... if you want to level the playing field even more than it already is. I am not saying don't inform your clients and customers of important factoids about a real estate transaction... What I am saying is, if a professional has got wow-power in their back pocket, and they share it in an essay with competitors, ...the wow power is gone. So, why give the cow away when you might be able to milk it. The real estate future: "Individual Intellectual Property" I could go on and on...but that would be more of an essay, and less of a comment. Best wishes to all and continued success. Respectfully --- RK

Writing an essay, is a roadmap to recovery for competition. "...imagine what the industry and the market will look like into the future." I wouldn't write an essay if I were you...You know why? Because there are going to be companies wanting to read your ideas, and you will have just given them food for thought (for the possibility of $500). I don't have to tell you there are vultures out there ready to pick the bones of the unfortunate. Has this dry-spell caused you to lose common sense? The competition is either going to take your ideas and use them, or if your thoughts are contrary to their business belief try to keep your ideas from being implemented. My advice to all you sweepstake loving, wish Publisher Clearing House would stop at my door kind of real estate professionals: Look at what YOUR real estate future! If you got some good ideas....make those good things happen for YOU! The future of real estate: Make the future your own. "Check, please!"

When did honesty, due diligence, and disclosure become "unfair"? Especially in this "interesting market", (as I like to call it),if a house has been on the market a while, and a buyer likes it...well, then buyer was lucky no one picked it up before him. Negotiation is the name of the game nowadays for both parties.---Get used to it.