• The Best Offer Isn’t Always the Highest,Kathryn Schenk

    The Best Offer Isn’t Always the Highest

    Price has a way of dominating the conversation in real estate, as though it were the only lever that matters. Buyers fixate on how much to offer. Sellers fixate on how much they’ll get. Agents, when they’re not careful, fall into the same trap, reducing a complex negotiation to a single number and h

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  • Small Gaps in Strategy Create Big Problems in Real Estate,Kathryn Schenk

    Small Gaps in Strategy Create Big Problems in Real Estate

    There is a particular kind of stress in real estate that rarely announces itself upfront. It doesn’t arrive with a dramatic market shift or a catastrophic inspection report. It builds quietly, almost politely, through a series of small decisions that seemed reasonable at the time. A delayed reply to

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  • How You Say It Can Make or Break the Deal,Kathryn Schenk

    How You Say It Can Make or Break the Deal

    Most people think negotiation is driven by numbers. Price, terms, timelines. The measurable pieces. The ones you can point to on paper and defend in a spreadsheet. In practice, tone is often doing just as much work - quietly, and with far less margin for error. Tone is what determines whether the ot

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