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![You sat for 200 days while algorithms played Realtor.
Your house became that gym membership you forgot to cancel.
Day 1:]()
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2025-09-19 23:04:17
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![Cut-rate deals always sound smart… until you realize what actually got cut.
Discount brokers love to pitch: “Same service, lower fee.”
Airlines say the same thing: “Same destination, cheaper ticket.”
But anyone who’s flown Spirit or Frontier knows the truth.
You technically get there, but the experience?
Miserable.
Selling your home isn’t any different (other than it is WAY more important than a flight)
You think you’re saving on commission, but what you’re really cutting are the things that make you the highest price possible:
Professional marketing, photos, videos, social media ds, skilled negotiation, constant follow-up, and the expertise to keep a deal from blowing up at the finish line.
A strong agent doesn’t just “list your house.”
They position it to sell fast, attract stronger offers, and negotiate the kind of deal that puts more in your pocket overall than the “savings” from a discount fee ever could.
Your home is your biggest asset and you will only sell 3-4 max in your lifetime.
Do you really want the bargain-bin version of representation handling it?
#realtor #realtors #realtorsofinstagram #realestateagent #realestateagents #listingagent #buyersagent #discountbroker]()
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![I watched this happen last week.
An agent sat across from sellers who wanted to list at $750k.
Market analysis said $650k max.
The agent could've nodded, taken the listing, and collected marketing fees for 6 months while it rotted.
Instead, they spent two hours explaining why that price would kill the sale.
Showed them the days-on-market data.
The psychology of stale listings.
The actual comps, not the wishful ones.
The sellers got angry.
Said they'd find someone who]()
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2025-09-17 19:43:41
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![The psychology of overpricing is fascinating.
Sellers think they're being strategic, leaving]()
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2025-09-15 21:23:51
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![Every seller's formula:
Purchase price + renovation costs + emotional attachment + financial needs = asking price.
The market's formula: What similar houses sold for last week.
These numbers rarely match, and guess which one wins?
Your kitchen renovation cost $80k.
Beautiful work. Italian marble, professional grade appliances.
The market values it at $30k over the house with the dated kitchen.
That's a $50k education in the difference between cost and value.
The couple relocating for work needs $450k to buy their next house.
Their house is worth $425k.
The market doesn't care about their job transfer.
The buyer doesn't care about their next mortgage.
Value isn't determined by your circumstances.
This isn't cruelty. It's clarity.
The market is just thousands of buyers with their own needs, their own budgets, their own options.
They're not calculating what you need. They're calculating what they'll pay.
The sellers who understand this price accordingly and sell quickly.
The ones who don't become cautionary tales, their listings growing stale while they argue with reality.
Your house tells your story.
But buyers are writing their own.
#realtor #realtors #realtorsofinstagram #realestateagent #realestateagents #listingagent #buyersagent #homevalue #zillow]()
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2025-09-12 19:30:48
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![Price is the ultimate marketing.
It determines who sees your listing, who can qualify, who will engage.
Get it right and even terrible photos sell houses.
Get it wrong and you could hire Spielberg to film your listing video and it will still be sitting on the market after 6 months.
I've watched agents spend $10k on marketing campaigns for houses priced $75k above market.
They got millions of views, thousands of saves, zero offers.
Meanwhile, the identical house down the street priced correctly sold in 3 days with iPhone photos.
The market doesn't care about your video production value.
It cares about value, period.
Every buyer has access to every listing, every comp, every price history.
They know when you're $20k too high before they walk through the door.
If you're amplifying the wrong price, you're just broadcasting failure louder.
The best marketing strategy?
Price it right.
Price first. Market second.
Or watch your listing become that house everyone knows about but nobody wants.
#realtor #realtorlife #realtorsofinstagram #realtors #realestateagent #realestateagents #listingagent #homevalue #homevalues #appraisal]()
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2025-09-10 21:22:14
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![The truth is, your house is worth exactly what someone will pay for it tomorrow.
Not what an algorithm thinks.
Not what the tax assessor needs.
Not what your insurance requires to rebuild.
Just what another human with money decides at a specific moment in time.
This is what they don't tell you at closing:
You'll never actually know what your house is worth until you sell it.
Every number until then is theoretical.
A guess. An opinion. A calculation based on other guesses.
Meanwhile, you're sitting in YOUR house, that you bought with YOUR money, and everyone else gets to decide what it's worth.
But here's the secret: None of their numbers matter if you're not selling.
Your house is a place to live, build memories, and escape rent.
And that is priceless...
#realtor #realtors #realtorsofinstagram #realestateagent #realestateagents #listingagent #homevalue #homeownership #homeowner #zillow]()
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2025-09-09 18:25:40
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![Your agent just got asked to cut their commission for the 47th time this month.
Know what's wild?
The same people negotiating agent fees will drop $8 on coffee without blinking.
Pay $200/month for streaming services they don't watch.
Tip 25% for someone bringing food 10 feet from kitchen to table.
But the person navigating the biggest financial transaction of your life?]()
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2025-09-08 19:27:29
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![NAR knows exactly what they're doing.
They've created a hostage situation where your MLS access, the thing you need to actually function as an agent, is tied to their dues.
It's not a membership. It's a ransom.
Think about what NAR actually provides you:
Legal protection? They folded instantly when sued
Advocacy? They threw you under the bus
Education? YouTube teaches more for free
Technology? Their tech is from 2003
Leadership? They can't even lead themselves
The only thing they successfully provide is conventions where vendors try to sell you more stuff you don't need.
Meanwhile, your local MLS does all the actual work.
They maintain the database, handle the tech, manage compliance.
But somehow NAR inserted themselves as the toll booth you have to pay to access your own local system.
It's like having to join a national McDonald's association to eat at your local franchise.
Makes zero sense except as a revenue extraction scheme.
The silent part out loud: Most agents would drop NAR tomorrow if they could still access MLS.
NAR knows this. That's why they've spent decades making sure you can't.
But hey, the convention tote bags are nice.
#realtor #realtors #realestateagent #realestateagents #realtorlife #nationalassociationofrealtors #listingagent #buyersagent]()
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2025-09-03 18:30:43
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![Grant Cardone tells his 4.9 million followers that homeownership is stupid.
That only idiots tie up capital in personal residences.
That smart money stays liquid and invests in cash-flowing assets.
Guess what cash-flowing assets he wants you to invest in?
His rental properties.
The math is beautiful in its simplicity:
Convince millions they shouldn't buy homes, then rent them your apartments.
Create the demand for your own supply.
Every]()
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2025-09-01 21:51:03
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![Time for a reality check on the lead generation mafia.
Realtor.com wants $400-1,200 a month for]()
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2025-08-28 19:38:22
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![Do not give up on buying a home! #realtor #realtors #realestateagents #realestateagent #realtorlife #realtorsofinstagram #listingagent #buyersagent #buyeragent #realestateagentsofinstagram #homeowner #homeownershipgoals #rentvsbuy]()
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2025-08-28 01:57:44
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![Let's talk about the greatest betrayal in real estate history.
The National Association of Realtors had ONE job for a century: protect the profession.
Stand up for agents.
Fight the battles individual agents couldn't fight alone.
They collected $1.5 billion in dues annually for this privilege.
Then the lawsuits came and NAR folded faster than a lawn chair in a hurricane.
The settlement they rushed to accept?
It didn't protect agents.
It didn't clarify the market.
It didn't help consumers.
It created chaos, confusion, and more paperwork.
Buyers now need signed agreements before viewing homes.
Sellers are more exposed to lawsuits.
Agents are navigating rules that change depending on which lawyer is interpreting them that day.
The lawyers who sued? They walked away with $418 million.
The consumers they were]()
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2025-08-27 21:29:05
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![If you're new here, let's cut to it:
I'm Chris Smith and I want you to get to know me better.
I get 1000's of new followers every month and don't want to take it for granted that you have any idea who I actually am.
I've written 3 bestsellers about sales and marketing, including The Conversion Code, which Johns Hopkins requires as reading to get a marketing degree.
Gary Vaynerchuk wrote the foreword to my first book.
I've consulted for or worked for Inman News, Realtor.com, Homes.com, Dotloop.
Also, I co-founded Curaytor and am currently building Beacon with my business partner Jimmy Mackin.
I own an email marketing agency for agents called ella.
My IG posts often hit millions of views because I say what agents wish they could.
I charge $5K/hour for private consulting and offer a 3-day certification where I work one on one with your sales and marketing teams.
Here, you get free bite-sized violence.
For my longer form in-depth stuff you can join my IG broadcast channel or subscribe to The Chris List email newsletter.
Follow if you want content that makes agents armed, not attacked.
Content that makes consumers question their assumptions, not your value.
DM me about real estate, marketing, AI, or shoes. Especially shoes.
Fair warning: I respond to everything with uncomfortable truth.
Your feelings aren't my priority. Your success is.
Still here? Good. You might just survive this industry.
#realtor #realtorlife #realtors #realtorsofinstagram #realestateagent #realestateagents #listingagent #bestsellingauthor #marketingexpert]()
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2025-08-26 21:21:54
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![Wall Street just gave Opendoor a standing ovation for quitting.
Stock is up 600% since July. Not because they're crushing it.
Because investors think they're about to abandon everything that made them Opendoor.
The hedge fund thesis?
Become the anti-Zillow.
Stop trying to replace agents.
Start empowering them.
Here's what nobody's talking about: Every iBuyer thought algorithms could replace local knowledge.
Zillow lost $881 million learning they were wrong.
Opendoor burned through billions discovering the same truth.
Turns out you can't algorithm your way through:
The smell in the basement
The neighbor who practices drums at midnight
The school rezoning next year
The foundation issue hidden behind fresh paint
The divorce sale priced to move NOW
Silicon Valley spent a decade and billions trying to]()
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2025-08-25 20:41:00
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![Let's talk about the convenience tax you pay without blinking.
That $47 DoorDash order breaks down like this: $12 burrito, $5 delivery fee, $3 service fee, $2]()
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2025-08-22 21:30:11
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![They had unlimited data. Billions in funding. The best engineers money could buy.
And they still lost nearly a billion dollars of cash and $40 billion of market cap trying to flip houses using their own Zestimate.
Think about that: The company that tells YOU what your house is worth couldn't figure out what houses were worth when their own money was on the line.
Here's what actually happened: They'd make instant cash offers based on their algorithm.
Bought thousands of homes. Then reality hit.
The algorithm didn't account for foundation issues. Couldn't smell the mold. Didn't notice the neighbor's garage band. Couldn't feel that the neighborhood was shifting.
Meanwhile, local agents were watching them overpay by $30-50k per house and laughing.
The best part?
While Zillow was hemorrhaging money, they were still telling consumers to trust the Zestimate.
Still showing those]()
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2025-08-21 19:59:41
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![Let's do the math Dave teaches but apparently doesn't follow:
A monkey could sell a house? Cool.
Then why does Dave need to:
Vet agents through an]()
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2025-08-20 18:36:16
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![Those clicks, favorites, and “just browsing” nights Zillowing on the couch?
They’re quietly packaged up and sold off as leads.
That’s why your inbox suddenly fills with calls, texts, and emails the moment you tap that heart button.
It feels like shopping, but it’s really surveillance dressed up as convenience.
Your data is their inventory. The homes are bait.
The buyers and sellers are the real product.
Here’s the part most people miss: the more you browse, the more predictable you become.
Platforms track how long you linger on a listing, which price points you chase, even the zip codes you can’t resist.
That pattern of behavior is worth thousands to the agents and advertisers paying for access.
It’s not evil, it’s economics.
If a service is “free,” it only stays alive by monetizing the user.
That’s not a glitch in the system; it is the system.
The problem?
Shoppers think they’re flying under the radar when, in reality, they’re giving away negotiating power.
So if you’re serious about buying, skip the click-traps.
Talk to a professional who doesn’t sell your secrets but uses them to help you win.
#realtor #realtors #realtorlife #realestateagent #realestateagents #realtorsofinstagram #realestateagentsofinstagram #zillow #zillowpremieragent #listingagent #buyersagent #buyeragent]()
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![I've trained 500,000+ agents, and the ones who succeed aren't the smooth talkers.
They're the truth tellers.
Here's what happens when agents finally say what they're thinking:
The market doesn't care about your seller's feelings. It doesn't care what they]()
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![Everyone’s waiting for the “perfect” time to buy or sell.
Here’s the problem: the market doesn’t hand out freebies.
If rates drop, more buyers jump in → demand spikes → prices go up.
If rates rise, your monthly payment goes up → affordability drops.
Either way, you’re paying for the wait.
The cost just shows up in a different column, price or payment.
The real decision isn’t when rates will be perfect.
It’s when your life and finances are ready.
Because the market won’t send you an invitation, it’ll just send you the bill.
#realestate #mortgagerates #homebuyingtips #realtor #realtorsofinstagram #realtors #realestateagent #realestateagents #realtorlife]()
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![FSBO = For Sale By Owner
Trying to sell your own home is like watching a slow-motion train wreck you’re driving.
At first, you feel brilliant “Look at me, saving commission!”
A week in, you’re drowning in legalese, disclosure forms, and random buyers texting you at midnight asking if you’ll take half your asking price.
By month two, the strangers wandering through your house have given you whiplash one loves the kitchen but hates the street.]()
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![You found the house yourself?
Cool. So did 78% of buyers last year.
But here’s what that stat doesn’t tell you...97% still hired an agent.
Because clicking a link is easy.
Winning the house? That’s war.
Finding it is only step one.
Step two is writing an offer that slices through a bidding war without bleeding out your budget.
Step three is surviving inspections without the whole deal detonating.
Step four is making sure one bad clause doesn’t legally or financially ruin you for the next decade.
The internet didn’t replace agents. It replaced the Rolodex.
Now their value isn’t finding the door it’s knowing which ones to walk through, which to walk away from, and how to lock one in before it slams shut.
And here’s the part Zillow can’t show you:
Agents in their car at midnight rewriting an offer to outmaneuver another buyer.
Agents pulling permits on their phone while standing in a basement that smells like regret.
Sure, your “click” starts the process.
Your agents grind finishes it.
#realtor #realtorlife #realtors #realtorsofinstagram #realestateagent #realestateagents #buyersagent #buyeragent]()
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