As a result, I negotiated with the seller by threatening to back out of the deal and we agreed upon a purchase price of 625k.

:Do you feel threatened by this little apple tree?

Threatening to leave a negative review if you don't get your way is blackmail and extortion.

If a tenant doesn't pay their portion of the rent I can send the office an email and they will help me prod the tenant by threatening to get kicked off the program.

"You get more bees with honey that you will get with vinegar"Never threaten anyone in this world.

Are you able to separate emotions from business and treat people professionally even while they cry in your face or threaten to beat you to a pulp?

On top of that it's heavily fragmented and being threatened on several fronts by disrupters and other external forces.Glenn Sanford's goal was to redesign the model in the cloud-based era to minimize overhead costs (brick & mortar, redundant staffing, etc) while improving services & compensation  to provide a value proposition for agents that is so strong it would be "irresponsible" (his words) to hang your license anywhere else. 

Bro's usually live in groups called "squads" and are highly offeneded if they feel threatened.

I started REI back in 2008 when I saw my retirement savings being threatened by the stock market collapse that I had no control over.

When you take action to become financially independent, it threatens their self beliefs.