I know many of you have been asking for this. I’ve been looking for a good quality recording but hadn’t found one with both the introduction and my presentation. Enter, Mike Canova from GAMLS who shared this video with me at the recent RESO Conference. I took the video and edited it a bit by inserting the slides from both presentations. Still blown away how great Andy did on the introduction. Please share and enjoy!
Words can’t hurt?
Driving my daughter to tennis practice today we got to talking about words.
She said that she was always confused by two sayings she heard:
“Stick and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” And another one, “The pen is mightier than the sword.”
I stared at her, speechless, as she grabbed up her backpack and exited the car.
“Love you, Dad” she said. Which made me feel good.
Inman News’ Andrea Brambila is “live on the scene” for the Sitzer | Burnett case
I don’t think they allow phones or recording devices in the courtroom for the Sitzer | Burnett lawsuit but Inman News has sent Andrea to cover the courtroom case and they have posted a website, for “live updates”. I don’t think anyone has as much understanding of the issues more than Andrea so I’m glad they sent her!
You can check the Live Updates site here.
Save the date! NAR NXT Pre-Party
Monday, November 13th (5PM to 8PM)
Join me for cocktails and conversation to kick off the week of NAR NXT! Mingle and enjoy time with real estate tech founders, execs, VCs, and practitioners.
This is a collaboration with Drew Meyers of Geek Estate (GEM), and will be hosted in the work/car studio I share with Dan Woolley. We’ll set up tables, have local brews and a few handles, snacks, cool music, a bubble top hockey table and a few surprises.
Very close to John Wayne Airport (SNA) airport if you are flying in Monday. Or maybe a kicking off point for some of Orange County’s finest restaurants.
Open to GEM members and you pioneers of proptech and organized real estate insiders. More information coming soon.
Help find a cure for pediatric brain cancer
My son Toby is part of CIBACS (Center for International Business and Communication Studies). CIBACS is partnering with the McKenna Claire Foundation (MCF) to raise funds for both pediatric brain cancer research and CIBACS. Over the past 11 years, MCF has donated over $144,000 to our local schools in partnership with the Play It Forward Golf Tournament and Golf Ball Drop. CIBACS will receive 50% of the proceeds for every ball sold by CIBACS students. The first ball in the hole or closest to the pin will win $2,500!!! All purchased balls will be assigned a number and be part of the helicopter golf ball drop being held just before sunset on Friday, October 20, 2023 at the Tijeras Creek Golf Club. Balls are $10 each. The winner does not need to be present to win.
- Head to this link => https://e.givesmart.com/events/x2F/ and click “Enter Here” under the helicopter golf ball drop title
- Choose how many golf balls you’d like to buy, Or just make a donation. Remember 1 ball = $10. Hit next below when you finish
- Fill out all the information it requires (sorry the form is kinda long we don’t have any control over that), when it comes to “Student you are supporting”, enter the name “Robertson, Tobias” and under that, the “Teacher & Period” you are supporting is “Boone Period 2 (Juniors)”
Thank you!
Inventor of PDF dies
John Warnock, Inventor of the PDF, Dies at 82
“The PDF was the result of Dr. Warnock’s abiding obsession since graduate school: finding a way to ensure that the graphics displayed on one computer — whether words or images — looked the exact same on another computer, or on a page from a printer, regardless of the manufacturer.
“It had been a holy grail in computer science to figure out how to communicate documents,” he said in a 2019 interview with Oxford University.
Clay Risen, reporting for The New York Times
Hard to think of another industry that has benefited from the PDF more than real estate. From forms to CMAs and everything in between. Thank you John.
Wisdom Load
Wisdom Load is a new consulting company launched by Ohan Antebian. From his website:
“Since 2001, we worked with brokerages, agents, associations, MLSs, and vendors. Technically, we have a thorough knowledge of real estate data and most software categories offered to the industry. Business wise, we understand traditional and emerging models as well as the externalities that impact them.”
They got a great testimonial from CRMLS on some recent work. Lets support industry players, drop Ohan a line for you next project.
Way to go India!
I’m somewhat of a space nerd and just super excited to see India to be the first to land on the moon’s South Pole. Neil deGrasse Tyson does a great job of explaining why that’s important.
So cool!
Is Rap back?
I’m hearing and reading, Yes! According to social accounts Rapattoni is beginning the process of getting their customers back online. They still have a few caveats to work out, and I’m not sure if this is the same for all accounts. But it appears they have data from August 5th and working on getting photos loaded back up as fast as they can.
It was good to see a lot in the industry stepping up to help during this crisis. Zenlist, Zillow and even CRMLS and Northstar MLS got in the mix.
CRMLS offering help to California MLS organizations hit by MLS outages
The outages effecting many MLS providers around the country could happen to any company. These types of situations are rampant for many industries. So it’s good to see many in the MLS community offering to help. CRMLS is is offering free access to the CRMLS Matrix platform to all California real estate professionals who use MLS systems hit by the outages until the issues are resolved.
Here is a link to the Matrix Resource Center for Rapattoni Users. Users will need to fill out the “CRMLS Temporary Access Form” found in the resource center and send it to CRMLS-cares@crmls.org.
CRMLS has also issued this statement:
“We want to assure everyone that this is an exceptional circumstance, and CRMLS will not solicit membership to anyone outside of our current CRMLS participants, leverage any of the listing data provided by your members, nor enroll them for further, unrelated communications. We are hoping this will simply be a stopgap for an unprecedented event to keep California real estate going strong.”
-CRMLS
I’ve also attached a CRMLS coverage map for those interested.
Let’s all hope this crisis ends soon.