• 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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  • If It’s Not in the Contract, It Doesn’t Exist,Kathryn Schenk

    If It’s Not in the Contract, It Doesn’t Exist

    There is a particular kind of sentence that circulates in real estate conversations like a bad rumour: “Don’t worry, we agreed on it.” It sounds reassuring. Collaborative, even. The sort of thing that suggests two reasonable adults have reached a mutual understanding and can now proceed like civiliz

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