Miami Association of Realtors partners with Mexican trade group

The Miami Association of Realtors has inked partnerships with 15 local chapters of the Mexican Association of Real Estate Professionals.  Continue reading

‘Papa’ Provides Millennial Grandkids On-Demand

Barbara Carroll-Marks knew she needed a change in her life. After developing Parkinson’s disease, she had been through a particularly  rough stretch. The condition worsened to the point where she needed 24-hour home nursing care, an experience she reme… Continue reading

Rehab Is Often the Missing Piece of Cancer Recovery

(This article appeared previously in the American Association for Cancer Research’s Cancer Today.) In July 2010, 52-year-old Julie Barthels, a clinical director of a rape crisis center, woke up with a sharp pain in her right breast. When the pain persi… Continue reading

The Wrenching Financial Costs of Addiction

If you’ve seen the recent movies Beautiful Boy or Ben Is Back, you’ve learned about the pain parents experience when their grown child becomes an addict. But what the films don’t talk much about, and what’s rarely discussed, is the devastation addictio… Continue reading

How to Include Charities in Your Will to Leave a Legacy

When people do estate planning, they often don’t think about supporting the causes that have been important to them. Yet, it turns out that most people do want to use their estates to help change the world. When asked about giving during the estate pla… Continue reading

Fighting Back: Make service and emotional engagement a priority

How are real estate broker-owners responding, adapting or changing? Here’s what Kendall Caputo, broker-owner of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Synergy in the Great Daytona Beach, Florida area, is doing. Continue reading

Biggest brokerage news of 2018

Brokerages saw a lot of movement this year, be it highly-producing teams and franchises striking out on their own or legacy companies launching new brands. Continue reading