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Use #WorldRefugeeDay to seed #Hack4REGood / #InnovationMinistry?

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Bill Wendel — No Comments ↓

Wish I had known about the Vatican’s new StartUp accelerator a month ago when the call was still open for entries to their first group of ideas / companies. http://bit.ly/HolyStartUp (share via social media) Have shared the link above with…

Posted in #SpeculatorsWithoutBorders, ASAP: AIDS Shelter Alliance Partners, Change Agents, Crowdfunding, Impact Rebates, Luxury housing, Pope's Encyclical, RE2020, Real estate philanthropy

Using calls to “disrupt real estate” to raise awareness of money-saving alternatives

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Bill Wendel — No Comments ↓

Greetings, fellow real estate consumer advocates and DIY homebuyers and sellers (particularly those hoping to sell for-sale-by-owner ), Have you seen the article this week in Entrepreneur Magazine: Who Will Step Up and Disrupt the Real Estate Industry? http://bit.ly/DisruptREAL (please share…

Posted in Change Agents, Commission Reform, Consumer protection, Disrupt Real Estate, Fee-for-service, FSBO: For Sale By Owner, RE2020, Real Estate Roundtables, RECALL: Real Estate Consumer Alliance, Savings & Rebates

Disrupt, reform or realign real estate: Opportunities to connect dots & build synergy

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Bill Wendel — No Comments ↓

A question asked yesterday in Entrepreneur Magazine has been echoing across the internet this year: “Is it time for real estate to be disrupted?” The question is appropriate but too simplistic if it fails to recognize decades of failed reform efforts and that…

Posted in Change Agents, Consumer protection, Dump Dual Agency, Real Estate Consumer Bill of Rights, Real Estate Roundtables, RECALL: Real Estate Consumer Alliance, Savings & Rebates, Unbundling the Commission, VRM

Mr. President, how can we create an open, transparent, fair & affordable housing market?

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Bill Wendel — No Comments ↓

Won’t you love to ask President Obama a question about the housing market or turn your complaints into a Real Estate Consumer Bill of Rights? The White House is hosting a housing Q&A online so let’s seize the opportunity to do that…

Posted in Bidding wars, Bubble Hour, Change Agents, Consumer protection, Defensive Homebuying, Dual Agency Detective, Pocket Listings, Real Estate Consumer Bill of Rights, Real Estate Roundtables, RECALL: Real Estate Consumer Alliance

Crowdfunding vs GreedFunding: How to redirect the “Double Dip”

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Bill Wendel — No Comments ↓

Surveys show that the majority of consumers believe that real estate agents are overpaid. Does that mean individual agents are greedy? Not necessarily but it does mean that the prevailing two-sided commission is obsolete, and the amount of compensation that…

Posted in ASAP: AIDS Shelter Alliance Partners, Buyer agent, Change Agents, Commission Reform, Consumer protection, Crowdfunding, Dual Agency Detective, Dump Dual Agency, Fee-for-service, Unbundling the Commission

Open Data: What would real estate look like if there were no MLS?

Posted on February 22, 2013 by admin — No Comments ↓

Good morning, @_____________, First, thank you for taking a minute to read this private message. I appreciate the thought you put into your comments on Boston.com’s real estate blog, and have noted a number of times that our perspectives on…

Posted in "We" companies, Bidding wars, Change Agents, Commission Reform, Consumer protection, Defensive Homebuying, Dual Agency Detective, Foreclosure Prevention, Housing bubble, Idea Bar, Real Estate Consumer Bill of Rights, Real Estate Roundtables, RECALL: Real Estate Consumer Alliance, reVRM, Unbundling the Commission, Unconference

Following #My2K? Why not turn Mansion Cliff into #My$200K (or more)!

Posted on November 29, 2012 by admin — No Comments ↓

Black Friday and CyberMonday have come and gone, but a blog post before Thanksgiving asking why there isn’t a real estate equivalent got us thinking and analyzing data. Then when President Obama launched the #My2k campaign to raise awareness about…

Posted in Change Agents, commission rebate, Commission Reform, Fee-for-service, In the News, Luxury homes, M$M, Market trends, Million Dollar Markdowns, Price reductions, Savings & Rebates, Seasonality, Sweetest Deals, Timing the market

How will Digital Asset Grid, Identity & VRM transform real estate?

Posted on November 3, 2012 by admin — No Comments ↓

Q: @windley #Intentcasting will transform #realestate Whats best way to build apps / seed demos vimeo.com/51827693 #innotribe #sibos #VRM — Bill Wendel (@RealEstateCafe) November 2, 2012 As some innovators build new business models based on the believe that “personal data…

Posted in Change Agents, Homebuyer Clubs, Idea Bar, IntentCasting, Real Estate Consumer Bill of Rights, Real Estate Roundtables, RECALL: Real Estate Consumer Alliance, reVRM, Savings & Rebates, Tech Trends, Unbundling the Commission, VRM

Can group buying deliver billions in savings annually to real estate consumers?

Posted on April 12, 2011 by admin — No Comments ↓

A week after it was published, a story about Groupon’s first real estate offer is still the most forwarded article on Inman News, the leading real estate technology web site. Beyond that, my Google alerts continue to forward a flurry…

Tagged with: Groupon
Posted in Change Agents, commission rebate, Commission Reform, Consumer protection, Coupons, Group buying, Price reductions, reVRM, Savings & Rebates, Tech Trends, Timing the market

Idea Starter: What if homebuyers & sellers managed their own data?

Posted on August 12, 2010 by admin — No Comments ↓

When the headline “Freeing ‘captured’ homebuyers” arrived in my email two weeks ago, I thought the real estate industry had just discovered VRM: Vendor Relationship Management (see series of videos above for an overview). But scanning the article quickly, it…

Posted in "We" companies, Change Agents, Consumer protection, Homebuyer Clubs, Idea Bar, Listing buyers, Mobile real estate, Savings & Rebates, Tech Trends, Trend analysis, Unconference, VRM