The keys to managing in vacation hotspots

So-called ‘resort marketplaces,’ can be tough to manage for agents with the seasonal ebbs and flows. These markets are far from your traditional year-round homes in the suburbs and it could lead to a lot of months of inactivity if you don’t know how to… Continue reading

Keller Williams mega agent raises $25M for startup Homeward

Homeward founder and CEO Tim Heyl wants to ease the transaction process while keeping agents at the center of the homebuying and selling process. Continue reading

What I Learned From Being a Stepmother to Young Adults

When I got married for the first time 15 years ago, at 47, people asked me if it was going to be difficult to adjust to marriage because I was “set in my ways” or “used to so much freedom.” Those comments were disturbing, but I shrugged them off as jus… Continue reading

8 Ways to Lower the Cost of a Divorce

Divorce is painful, sometimes necessary and often expensive. Just ask Kathleen James of Downers Grove, Ill., who divorced at 50 and says she “woefully underestimated the expense.” These days, a traditional divorce for a couple over 50 (with a house, re… Continue reading

How to Take Charge of Your Health Before Something Bad Happens

Have you ever noticed it seems to take a life-threatening health incident, like a heart attack, before people will change their everyday eating or exercise habits? According to the two experts interviewed for this story, it’s an all-to-common phenomeno… Continue reading

Against the grain: 2 female leaders shaking up the industry

Kenya Burrell-VanWormer won the 2018 Inman Person of the Year award for leading HAR’s opposition to NAR’s proposed dues increase. Nikki Beauchamp, the president-elect for FIABCI USA, was one of the lone voices advocating for change when it came to rest… Continue reading

Lesson Learned: Make education the first pillar of your business

Each week, we talk to agents across the country about what they’ve learned along the way (and what they wish they had known as new agents). This week, third generation D.C. agent Jonathan Addison. Continue reading