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Reports of our death were greatly exaggerated. In a world of ChatGPT listings, 88% of buyers still want a human real estate broker. Why is the "New School" failing first-time buyers? It’s an Old School problem of supply and leverage.

In the "Old School" days, the ultimate prize was a seat at the client’s kitchen table. Today, we’ve traded that honor for the speed of a digital click. But there is a hidden cost: when brokers make the job look "easier than ever" through automation, they inadvertently devalue their own worth. This inaugural "Kitchen Table Chronicle" explores why reclaiming the "grease on your elbows" is the only way to prove your counsel is still indispensable in an AI-driven world. Don't be

In 1986, I thought I was the "main event." I had the heavy metal tape measure, the polished pitch, and a practiced "agent dance" for every room. But that October, a client moved through a house in a way that pulled me right out of my rhythm. He wasn't looking at the granite or the hardwoods; he was listening for something I couldn't hear.