Negotiating Secrets & Mantras For anyone who doesn’t have time to read a book — or ten — on real estate negotiation, l can distill what I’ve learned from a decade-plus representing home Sellers (and Buyers!) into two questions, to be asked by would-be Sellers (and their Realtors) at the key juncture(s) of each deal: 1. “What are the...Read More
Safety in Numbers? If you owe the bank $100, that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem. –John Paul Getty If a small investor gets ripped off by Wall Street, they’re SOL. But if a whole lot of investors get ripped off by Wall Street, there’s at least the...Read More
Sowing Confusion Amongst Consumers [Editor’s Note: see this for an update on how Edina Realty is responding to the practices(s) discussed in the following post.] Imagine if an apparel maker ripped out its competitors’ labels, attached its own, and sold the mislabeled clothing to consumers as their product? Or, consider what would happen if Panasonic slapped “Sony”...Read More
Why Goldman Sachs Should Hire Matt Taibbi The most the Securities and Exchange Commission could exact from serial transgressor Goldman Sachs — for what appeared to be blatant fraud that netted the firm billions — was a measly $550 million fine last Summer. By contrast, in just one day of trading (yesterday), Matt Taibbi’s latest Rolling Stone...Read More
