DOJ Against the Nations Realtors and What That Could Mean For You - Grant Clayton

Whether its from government intervention or tech innovation the way realtors have typically made a living are about to change. Some of the changes that have been proposed are small and relatively unimportant. A rule that was enacted across the board was that buyers agents could no longer advertise that there services were "free" and that agents could no longer "not" show a property due to the low co-op fee. Those seem pretty reasonable and were enacted by most MLS's across the nation. At the heart of the REX initiated DOJ antitrust lawsuit that seems to be most confusing is that they are arguing that buyers should pay for their own agents services and the seller should pay for their agent. This may benefit a company like REX but, it seems like it would create a larger barrier to first time homebuyers and stifle the overall market. Today we discuss. Please visit our sponsor issuu.com We all have creative ideas but, how do you take your idea and turn it into a digital asset? Issuu helps creators, marketers, designers, and really anyone who wants to make content that stands out. Taking our ideas and transforming them into a marketing piece that can be used on all of our social media can be maddening. This is why large teams have a dedicated marketing person doing nothing but, creating and reformatting content for use on all of our platforms. Issuu solves all of that in an easy to use make it once and distribute everywhere tool. Make it once and distribute it everywhere. You can try it free at issuu.com and if you want premium features like analytics or SEO help to make your content more discoverable you can get 50% off when you go to issuu.com/podcast and use the promo code superagents. That's I s s u u .om /podcast and use the promo code superagents.