“You think you’re a good negotiator, but I get paid in treats for stuff I was going to do, anyway.”“They spray-painted all over our building – in our own incomprehensible jargon!” The quote is a joke, but, alas, the news story is not. If that’s not a fake hate crime, bill me for one edible hat. […]
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“Hey, Redfin: Why is Buckhead ‘moving away’ from Atlanta?”There is privilege in being born an American, granted, and, as discussed, there is great privilege in being born a native speaker of English. And I am persistently aware of the privilege that accrues to people lucky enough to be educated under the Union Jack. That American public […]
“If ‘spiders are our friends’ – how come they don’t have tails?”I told my wife that Pacaso is bragging about having a million visitors to their web site since they launched last October. She is web- but not dev-savvy. Even so, her instant retort: “What’s the bounce rate?” You lead with your best card. Pacaso isn’t […]
“If your dog is trans, he’s probably also vegan.”We are living through Act I of what promises to be an Ant genocide. The officially-named targets of slaughter will be “white people,” but all Ants will be persecuted. Ants are to have been devoured by Grasshoppers, after all. Karl Marx said so. Making racist genocidal statements in […]
“Nothing rewarding ever happens in a veterinary clinic. That’s where I’d go looking for super-villains. No one with a rectal thermometer should be trusted in polite society.”We now know that Dr. Anthony Fauci is every bit the Marvel Comics super-villain he has seemed to be all along. He deliberately engineered the virus – his behest and […]
“If all you’re doing is chewing on your pencil, you might as well be gnawing on a stick.”Greek thought is so much the water we swim in that we never think to think about it. We sort and reorganize and align and trim and we never wonder why we fuss so incessantly about “proper order,” when […]
“Sometimes just a growl is just not enough…”This is Marxism in one gerundive: Ants are to have been devoured by Grasshoppers. If you say, “Then what?” – you’re out of the club, but that doesn’t really matter: The goal is not their success but your failure. Civilization is created by Ants for Ants. What happens when […]
“Dogs are discouraged from eating people, but you can only just have so much throat in your jaws before you have to swallow some…”I call it The Batman Fallacy, with the argument being: Batman is nuts. The ideal, when some bad thing is happening, is that a previously-unsuspected Batman should swoop in to right the wrong […]
“If stuff just ain’t workin’ – the stuff that ain’t workin’ is between your ears.”As discussed, Redfin’s actual complaint with exclusive Residential listings is that they don’t pay Buyer’s Agents from other brokerages – meaning Redfin. The race jive is just jive, as it always is with Redfin. Nothing prevents them from continuing to represent their […]
“You might need a dog toy, but your dog just needs you.”MLS fights are always about Residential listings. Nobody is claiming to have lost sleep (or money or jobs or opportunities) over Land and Lots or Multi-Family or BizOps. No one at Redfin is tasked with tracking underperformance by Patagonian buyers competing for Industrial properties. You […]
“Nobody counts the squirrels you didn’t tree.”We market our rental properties with the Realty.bots, not the MLS. I want to meet everyone, and I don’t want to pay a weak agent to come between me and the prospects. But what that means is that I get inundated with inquiries: The Realty.bots make it easy for […]
“Praise a dog for soiling your house and watch what happens…”Zillow’s first-quarter results are out, and the message is plainly obvious: Milk the idiots, but don’t be the idiot. They won’t learn. The only successful “disruption” in proptech, so far at least, belongs to Zillow: They replaced supermarket real estate magazines with the Zestimate™. The difference […]
“It’s a brave new world at the dog park. Have fun – but watch where you step.”Redfin has more home-price ballyhoo this morning, but it answers none of my standing questions: Where is all this new demand coming from, and what so-far undocumented vacancy is it leaving behind? What is happening to real estate values in […]
“If you’re looking for security from door-bells, door-knocks or vacuum cleaners, you’re looking for a dog!”My nephew is a locksmith, so I know his children’s futures are secure: Home security is a growth industry. If you live in a city where the police are afraid to enforce civil order, you need security. If you moved away, […]
Overnight News: The real estate market is color-blind. Good neighborhoods are the ones rich in Ants.
“‘Color-blind’? What’s ‘color’? Can’t you see in the infrared, like everyone else?”As I have pointed out too often, Redfin is on a Marxian crusade to prove that poorer real estate results for black homeowners results from racism, rather than from an aversion to the neighborhoods where black homeowners frequently buy their homes. In other words, why […]