Flipping America

FAR 185 The Harvest Expected Air Date: 9/10/18 Opening Real estate investing is like the weather - it’s always changing. But it’s unlike the weather in that you usually have to wait more than 5 minutes to see the change. With real estate, a multi-trillion dollar industry in the United States, you have multiple impact points each with their effect, but individually are like using a bumblebee to steer a barge into port. Example, Compass, opening a new office in Atlanta, talking about their use of proprietary technology to dominate the realty brokerage market. They will no doubt gain market share because of their deep pockets. But will they dominate? Unlikely. They represent a generation of investors enamored with technology and blinded by their own preference to machines over human interaction. But the entire company misses the point. Real estate sales require presence, that presence requires supervision, the supervision requires a trust, a set of ethical guidelines, enforced by a regulatory agency and ultimate