You seem to missing the point here, the NAR is one of the most powerful lobby groups in the country and this erodes that power.

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I have been a global business developer in the world of construction equipment for the first half of my life's career and have watched Kubota take over the global excavator market country by country since the 90s against a field of 30+ competing brands by offering a product that costs 5% less, has a slightly better initial quality and about similar performance.

Period.Most countries require RE licenses .

On top of that, I have been pushing some travel all this time, and I can no longer do it for personal reasons, so on the 14 of August, I'm not even in the country. 

That will ensure there will be built in equity that you can figure out a way to suck out equity via a cash out refinance, line of credit, cross collatorization, or selling the property.

In Q1 we say about $300M worth of loans cross our desk, Q2 was about $300M/mo and Q3 and Q4 we had weeks where we saw $300M. 

And when the deal crosses your desk, you'll know!

We have cross listed to Airbnb, VRBO and apartments.com with some inquiries with guests that keep trying to lowball us. 

The servicer may have their own fees, rules, and disclosures.Agent crosses a line to disclose rates, legal ins and outs, terms, and disclose the loan which even a broker license doesn't cover.