It is hard to to change and hard to adapt, but if you don't see the tide coming in, you will be washed away.The question we should all be asking is, "what effect will this massive government spending and stimulus have on our economy?"

We as humans can and will evolve to adapt to our new realities and I'm confident that we will get out on the other end stronger and greater than ever before.All my best,John Westbrook"Hope this helps, cheers!

The topic will be "How I'm adapting my real estate business" and it will be a panel, with specific speakers TBD.I’m just working off an announcement email I received last week so I don’t have any more details yet but figured I’d give you the information I have.

Things will probably not go as expected, and you will have to adapt.

Sometimes we have to switch gears, do things differently, but if we adapt and rise above the situation we all come out a little better for it!

As a Broker for over 25 years, Realestate will continually change, most of the big box franchises have not, they will or they will go away just like all business that fails to adapt to change.   

So I would say take a look at the housing stock mix of your home town and then adapt accordingly.   

If you are already providing internet, you can by-pass the lack of a landline by getting a VOIP/SIP line & then use any touch tone (not rotary) phone with an ATA (analog telephone adapter).  

Conversion of office building to residential is a way of adapting and reusing the unused or vacant office building.

Requests for issues other than these are evaluated on a case-by-case basis, but most are declined as a nonessential service in compliance with the Executive Orders.We are allowed to work on vacant homes to get them RentReady, although these projects are taking longer than normal due to long COVID-required lines at suppliers and workers on sick leave.Property ShowingsWe are not allowed to show occupied rental homes per the executive orders.Vacant homes are being shown as we’ve adapted and moved to secured self-showings.Our overall application numbers are up significantly compared to last year.