Also, while there is value in the experience of others here... some are not adapting to the times.

Often located in urban areas, they may be adapted from older--sometimes historic--buildings and can be part of a mixed-use project.Typical Type of Anchors: Restaurants, entertainmentTrade Area Size: 25-75 miles

It helps that my hearing has "adapted" to a life of loud music and gunfire, but the road noise doesn't really bother me. 

If you are in your 50's 60's or 70's, I wouldn't expect to see much from these generations as a willingness to adapt.

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While the largest group of respondents in this survey found that online leads had accounted for less than 5% of their closed business dealings, online leads nevertheless accounted for up to 20% to 49% of the closed business dealings for the second-largest group of respondents and 50% to 99% of closed business dealings for the next-largest group.Gathering all of the participant feedback, the overall conclusion is that while a good portion of real estate professionals did not find that online leads played as important a role in their closed business dealings, those that did, expressed how greatly they were dependant on online leads for closed business at all.Ultimately, however, those scampering for the top conversion results… those willing to adapt and adopt new and old “offline” lead conversion (nurturing) methodologies, seemed to benefit the most from the leads generated through online sources.

@Logan Allec, smart RE professionals will be able to adapt without much issue to the policy changes.

If you encounter challenges, adapt.

People can adapt and sleep most anywhere in a house.  

They will also not be as quick to change or adapt when market conditions dictate.