NAR - November existing-home sales climbed .8% after a 5 month drop.

To find off-market deals, join some DET Real Estate facebook groups.

That being said I am grateful for every small step forward, and at this moment in the aftermath of the NAR lawsuit I’m open to other avenues of moving forward in Real Estate beyond being an agent.

I was at the NAR event over the weekend and RCN Capital had a booth. 

Also, NAR considers all net listings to be unethical.

It only takes one upset customer to file a report with the CFPB or NAR. 

Standard 1-5 of the NAR Code of Ethics states:REALTORS® may represent the seller/landlord and buyer/tenant in the same transaction only after full disclosure to and with informed consent of both parties.Here's the thing: If you were doing this with full disclosure and informed consent of the seller, you could just charge them a higher commission for bringing the end buyer.

Appraiser looks at what did someone else pay for a similar Det Apt. 

(Familial status discrimination)NAR actually has a policy in place that if their members receive such letters with an offer, that they are not to be passed along to the seller due to the potential liability they may cause. 

Of course nobody knows for sure, but both Matthew Gardner (Chief Economist for Windermere) and Lawrence Yun (Chief Economist for the NAR) are predicting the same thing: if the economy goes back to a somewhat normal activity level by fall, that we're likely to see a postponement of the regular spring housing market into fall where pent up demand, low interest rates and low supply cause house prices to increase even further.