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Realtors

Freakonomics (Re)Revisited

“How is the Klu Klux Klan Like a Group of Real Estate Agents?”[Note: this post is a follow-up to to two, earlier posts discussing the best-selling 2005 book, Freakonomics: “Do Realtors Really Add Value,” and “What Do Realtors Really Get Paid For?”] You’d guess that any book with a chapter by that title — as...
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Appraiser ‘Batting Averages?’

Adding Back Checks & Balances If you haven’t been paying attention, there seems to be widespread consensus that much of the “recent unpleasantness” (what some people in the South called the Civil War) has to do with too few checks and balances in the financial system. So, one of the reasons that securitized mortgages became...
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