Why AI Is Still a Subpar Real Estate Agent Replacement (For Now)

<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6654caa2-7fff-6395-3fa5-8ffbde15a5d6"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As featured in <a href="https://www.housingwire.com/articles/why-ai-is-still-a-subpar-real-estate-agent-replacement/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">HousingWire</span></a>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlSPXzYMBsSMjUZF-ptjA4oFUpcli2VHcofNjTX6Es-t9COebNLkHrTdjQkc9y-iUMHWfzH3ziDXHzr04hxBfr58QyccZwmPPRtd6JzHx-OKqJTmsmzuENcvo8njTb4uf9m6LQAsHja1g5vl5ajyYIvjeZD1f6T_XVIful1l6x6a12i1-fM7KOdE4EvFk/s1664/-kBY6gPfV9dTAoOZk4frI.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1664" data-original-width="1248" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlSPXzYMBsSMjUZF-ptjA4oFUpcli2VHcofNjTX6Es-t9COebNLkHrTdjQkc9y-iUMHWfzH3ziDXHzr04hxBfr58QyccZwmPPRtd6JzHx-OKqJTmsmzuENcvo8njTb4uf9m6LQAsHja1g5vl5ajyYIvjeZD1f6T_XVIful1l6x6a12i1-fM7KOdE4EvFk/s320/-kBY6gPfV9dTAoOZk4frI.png" width="240"></a></div><br><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I recently got a question from Michele Lerner for Florida Realtor Magazine that cut right to the chase of this technological moment: Can AI replace real estate agents?⁣<span></span></span></p></span></div></b></div>

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Why AI Is Still a Subpar Real Estate Agent Replacement (For Now)

As featured in HousingWire . I recently got a question from Michele Lerner for Florida Realtor Magazine that cut right to the chase of this ...

Will the U.S.'s Next Top Money Guy Care About You? 4 Simple Questions to Ask NOW During The Fed Reserve Chair Confirmation Hearings This Week

<div style="text-align: center;"><span><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-599c1c7b-7fff-0250-3342-400b6079d479" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; white-space: normal;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As featured in <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.inman.com/2026/04/22/4-urgent-questions-to-ask-amid-the-kevin-warsh-fed-chair-confirmation/&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1776897131874264&usg=AOvVaw2n52jF_ZT92xSNPmCs2q7H" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Inman News</span></a> and <a href="http://Realtor.com"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Realtor.com</span></a>. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMVc9O0nuYohzdcO2YIIZGE6LOtbo5OSbCGJUEp9t8AVtP5ArmlxzvJG8BN_xYLgcN6d-5x8X3Xhl0IXhrgBdLqukfq0uZsMQqtZEJ4gMHaVYXKBGoetGmcEeW1dyQsO1fZDMmzJYIeyk03a1kIxyVYQmr3MpMrCGOtDh59qgvfV8iWaArED547ArPI8o/s1024/sJIv4GdHtyZuQ2lIeLVX3%20(1).png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMVc9O0nuYohzdcO2YIIZGE6LOtbo5OSbCGJUEp9t8AVtP5ArmlxzvJG8BN_xYLgcN6d-5x8X3Xhl0IXhrgBdLqukfq0uZsMQqtZEJ4gMHaVYXKBGoetGmcEeW1dyQsO1fZDMmzJYIeyk03a1kIxyVYQmr3MpMrCGOtDh59qgvfV8iWaArED547ArPI8o/s320/sJIv4GdHtyZuQ2lIeLVX3%20(1).png" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Al-generated image of President Trump and Fed. Chair Jerome Powell.</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you have ever watched a TikTok video with a roving reporter quizzing someone within the one percent (of wealth) like they are on the game show <i>The Price is Right</i>, you might have stopped scrolling as if watching a car crash. The person often cannot identify the price of food staples like eggs, milk or bread, or the cost of rising gas. <span></span></span></p></span></div></span></div>

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Will the U.S.'s Next Top Money Guy Care About You? 4 Simple Questions to Ask NOW During The Fed Reserve Chair Confirmation Hearings This Week

As featured in Inman News and Realtor.com . Al-generated image of President Trump and Fed. Chair Jerome Powell.   If you have ever watched ...

Did You Know? Jesse Jackson Predicted the 2007 Housing Crash and Spent 10 Years Trying to Stop It

<div style="text-align: center;"><span><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-89b03175-7fff-e9f4-8974-628991c70de8"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">As featured in <a href="https://www.inman.com/2026/02/20/how-jesse-jackson-predicted-and-tried-to-stop-the-2007-crash/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Inman News</span></a>. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o-lf4NdOZ90" width="320" youtube-src-id="o-lf4NdOZ90"></iframe></div><span style="font-family: Times; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="white-space-collapse: collapse;"><br><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Caption: One of my favorite childhood memories of Sesame Street is this video with Rev. Jesse Jackson. </i></div></span></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In February 2007, eight months before the stock market would begin its historic plunge and nearly a year before the word "bailout" entered every American household's vocabulary, the Reverend Jesse Jackson stood before the </span><a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-110shrg50309/pdf/CHRG-110shrg50309.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs with a warning</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> that now reads like prophecy.<span></span></span></p></span></div></span></div>

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Did You Know? Jesse Jackson Predicted the 2007 Housing Crash and Spent 10 Years Trying to Stop It

As featured in Inman News . Caption: One of my favorite childhood memories of Sesame Street is this video with Rev. Jesse Jackson. In Februa...

The ANTM Trap: When Smart Leaders with Good Intentions Still Fail the IRL Ethics Test

<div style="text-align: center;"><span><div style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; white-space: normal;">As featured in <a href="https://www.housingwire.com/articles/the-antm-trap-when-smart-leaders-with-good-intentions-still-fail-the-irl-ethics-test/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">HousingWire</span></a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: arial; font-weight: bold; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lEaICackkZM" width="320" youtube-src-id="lEaICackkZM"></iframe></div><div style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; white-space: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; white-space: normal;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-aa9b0903-7fff-cdc8-28d3-a25dcecba915" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; white-space: normal;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the feast or famine world of real estate, it can be easy to myopically focus on the bottom line (closing the deal and your commission). But a recent deep dive into a seemingly unrelated pop culture phenomenon offers a stark reminder that how we achieve success is just as important as the success itself.⁣<span></span></span></p></span></div></span></div>

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The ANTM Trap: When Smart Leaders with Good Intentions Still Fail the IRL Ethics Test

As featured in HousingWire .  In the feast or famine world of real estate, it can be easy to myopically focus on the bottom line (closing th...

How We All Can Be a "Fair Housing Equalizer"

<div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">As featured in </span><a href="https://www.housingwire.com/articles/dr-lee-davenport-fair-housing-equalizer/" style="font-size: x-small;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">HousingWire</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;">. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOWGS_eHCy6ZeOY2AB9f35HQjjZz22SS6dyBjeNkMnT8dGAKa9oz_wKaHt1z35ks65roSC5roEgFPo-yoniVwbD3uo-c3ir083P-1FUR8nwZ57T_H-1zvKaYxUrWCbqY3WgrSB9B_0o9-kXa_EYfK4tGtNfQr8lJEjFpNv_4AP20Mwj9_rhqsJbCIPGew/s4728/dillon-kydd-pvdx8c6Y5BY-unsplash.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3152" data-original-width="4728" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOWGS_eHCy6ZeOY2AB9f35HQjjZz22SS6dyBjeNkMnT8dGAKa9oz_wKaHt1z35ks65roSC5roEgFPo-yoniVwbD3uo-c3ir083P-1FUR8nwZ57T_H-1zvKaYxUrWCbqY3WgrSB9B_0o9-kXa_EYfK4tGtNfQr8lJEjFpNv_4AP20Mwj9_rhqsJbCIPGew/s320/dillon-kydd-pvdx8c6Y5BY-unsplash.jpg" width="320"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span face="ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Noto Sans", Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-wrap-mode: nowrap;">Caption: Photo by </span><a href="https://unsplash.com/@kyddvisuals?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; box-sizing: border-box; color: #767676; font-family: ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Noto Sans", Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-wrap-mode: nowrap; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, opacity 0.1s ease-in-out;">Dillon Kydd</a><span face="ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Noto Sans", Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; color: #111111; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-wrap-mode: nowrap;"> on </span><a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/brown-and-white-wooden-house-near-green-trees-under-blue-sky-during-daytime-pvdx8c6Y5BY?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; box-sizing: border-box; color: #767676; font-family: ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Noto Sans", Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-wrap-mode: nowrap; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out, opacity 0.1s ease-in-out;">Unsplash</a>. </i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: collapse;"><span style="font-size: large;">As real estate practitioners, I know you wear many "hats", from negotiator to contract specialist to, at times, even unofficial marriage counselor (yeesh!) and chauffeur. <span></span></span></div></b></div>

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How We All Can Be a "Fair Housing Equalizer"

As featured in HousingWire .  Caption: Photo by  Dillon Kydd  on  Unsplash .  As real estate practitioners, I know you wear many "hats...

The "Benito Bowl" Backdrop: How Bad Bunny's DtMF is a Good Catalyst for Remembering Fair Housing and Black History

<div style="text-align: center;"><span><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4b452c55-7fff-b5be-3e13-f719cd5c7dd3"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: xx-small; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As featured in <a href="https://www.inman.com/2026/02/10/how-bad-bunnys-dtmf-spotlights-fair-housing-and-black-history/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Inman News</span></a>. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Times; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 17.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">You may have FOMO (the fear of missing out) from time to time but what about DtMF? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 17.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 17.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">DtMF stands for “Debí tirar más fotos” (translation: I should have taken more pictures). Sage words to close the Super Bowl LX half-time show by the Grammy-winning artist, Bad Bunny (whose U.S. government name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio). But one thing about me is I’m going to have “50-eleven” photos and videos from every event (<a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/mlyv3oQBCKc?feature=share" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">like here at the YouTube Super Bowl LX party</span></a>) so DtMF is NOT my struggle, ha!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 17.3333px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span></p><span style="font-family: Times; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mlyv3oQBCKc" width="320" youtube-src-id="mlyv3oQBCKc"></iframe></div><br></span></span></div></span></div>

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The "Benito Bowl" Backdrop: How Bad Bunny's DtMF is a Good Catalyst for Remembering Fair Housing and Black History

As featured in Inman News . You may have FOMO (the fear of missing out) from time to time but what about DtMF? DtMF stands for “Debí tirar m...