The Coming Soon Files by Vanessa Saunders
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
Homeownership Is Not a Subscription Service by Vanessa Saunders
The housing system does not need another branding campaign about professionalism. It needs transparency about incentives, clarity about compensation, equal access to inventory and enforceable accountability.
“Hey, you’ve got Email!”
if you are not retaining emails and texts in a centralized, supervised system, let’s make 2026 the year that gets corrected. Pronto.
A compliance expert quizzed ChatGPT. Here’s what it got wrong.
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.
Need For Consumer-Centric Education — by Ruth Catchen
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.
What Is Growing In Your Garden? By Ruth Catchen
That same mindset—the gardener’s patience, the musician’s persistence—is what I carry into my teaching, my writing, my work with real estate professionals. The through line is always cultivation: time, care, presence. It’s something I won’t give up.