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Oregon condo boards are administrative bodies, not personal kingdoms. Discover how governance overreach, selective enforcement, and board ego violate ORS 100.

Over the years, I've watched the home inspection slowly transform. What was intended as a fair and honest protection for buyers has, far too often, turned into a tactical weapon used to hold sellers hostage. Here is how to spot "The Bait and Switch" before your seller gets played, and six concrete ways to keep the leverage on your side of the table.

We’ve become experts at collecting names and novices at building relationships. Today, I’m reflecting on the 'Rolodex Spirit'—why the highest ROI in a digital world still comes from the personal touch, and why a database is just a digital shoebox without it.

Providing detailed showing feedback isn't a "professional courtesy"—it’s a dangerous trap. While the customer service crowd uses feedback to get competing brokers to do their difficult pricing work for them, savvy listing agents are using those follow-up calls for a completely different reason. I didn't call to find out what you thought about the house; I called to see how quickly you’d hand over your client’s negotiation leverage for free. Here is why true mastery means keep

The high-stakes battle over private pocket listings is officially moving out of local MLS boardrooms and straight into state license law. Lawmakers are finally stepping in to tear down corporate walled gardens.

Everyone is talking about an "inventory shortage," but 47 years in this business has taught me a grittier truth. We aren't in a shortage; we’re in a closed equity loop. While first-time buyers sweat every basis point at 7%, my generation is moving $34 Trillion in wealth with single wire transfers. It’s time to talk about the "Brick Wall" that’s locking the next generation out of the American Dream.