There’s a lot of meat in her simple one-sentence writing style. You’ll find lots of spot-on insight as you quickly scroll through. We’ll give you a peek at a few of her descriptions of Coming Soon
if you are not retaining emails and texts in a centralized, supervised system, let’s make 2026 the year that gets corrected. Pronto.
One of the sneakiest parts of early stage Alzheimer’s is how ordinary envelopes turn into panic. This week’s Letter from Tim starts with a property tax bill, a very real moment of “Did I forget something huge,” and turns into a practical guide to decoding what that bill actually means if you have a mortgage. Dementia or not, this one hits a lot of kitchen tables.
It all began around a campfire 29 years ago: 50 real estate leaders came together in a redwood grove in Sonoma County, California, for the first Inman Connect. There was so much to talk about the impact on the real estate industry of this new thing called the commercial internet.
What you said reflects real-world DRE culture, where the textbook answer (cooperation) and the practical outcome (heightened scrutiny) don’t always align. That kind of nuance underscores the gap between rule-based reasoning and lived experience, the very space where human judgment still matters.”
In practice, it’s hard to reason about the “purpose” of a product as broad as ChatGPT, or the “purpose” of the entire internet. A better framing is: do the market harms from ChatGPT come from it producing substitutes that compete with the originals? Or is it an indirect effect, like a book critic review could have on a book?
Unlike generic commercial property platforms, Occupi is designed specifically for retail real estate, including shopping centers, high streets, mixed-use assets, and retail destinations. The platform addresses a longstanding industry challenge: the lack of a singular global operating system that connects retailers and landlords efficiently across borders.
The goal of this piece isn’t to spotlight what I know, but to illustrate what AI might not (at least not today). Ultimately, it’s the user behind the screen who must think critically before relying on AI for crucial information.
The Compass acquisition of Anywhere could be a “Big Deal” for Associations, MLSs, and other brokerage models.
Yes, there are agents who work with integrity, skill, and true dedication. But too often the system rewards the opposite. It is built on superficiality: how many homes sold, how much money made, how big the excess.
The Court’s erroneous evidentiary rulings — which were wrong when issued and should now be reconsidered in light of the FULL TRIAL RECORD — have irrevocably tainted the jury’s verdict.
What do I do now, in light of the current industry litigation? • Explain to buyer and seller prospects what’s going on in the marketplace.
Together they crystallize the central question facing the industry: should a residential listing belong first to the open MLS marketplace, or first to the brokerage that signed the seller? The answer will reshape how listings flow, where consumers find homes, which businesses capture the revenue, and what the Multiple Listing Service exists to do
