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MLS Reset 2026: Early bird pricing ends soon!

MLS Reset is all about getting back to what made Scottsdale in February special—real conversations, real connections, and none of the gatekeeping.

We’re taking over the Scottsdale Plaza Resort, Feb 9–11, 2025, and bringing together MLS execs, staff, vendors, portals, and proptech players for great storytelling, straight talk and fresh ideas. No invite-only lists, no awkward vendor conflicts—just an open, affordable event where the MLS community can reset, recharge, and maybe even sneak in a round of golf, some pickleball, or a desert hike.

If you care about the future of MLS, this is where you need to be.

Early bird pricing ends August 31st, and don’t forget to book your hotel room, the Scottsdale Plaza sells out every year.

Click here to register and for more details => MLSReset.com

Register for the 2025 Mini Virtual MLS Summit

I thought I’d pass along that New Mexico MLS is hosting a “mini” virtual summit at the end of the month. It’s FREE to attend. See link at the bottom.

Highlights Include:

  • A high-level primer on the future of AI, featuring thought leaders from IBM and Google
  • Real-life broker stories on using AI to streamline operations, boost communication, and work smarter
  • Lightning product demos from AI tools that are already making waves
  • Straight-shootin’ talk about ethics, risks, and rewards

This ain’t your average webinar. It’s a full-on showdown of innovation, insight, and inspiration. All packed into a 90 minute summit.

Don’t miss your chance to explore The Good, The Bad, and The Uncanny side of AI.

FREE = > Register for the Virtual MLS Summit

Live Stream the “Pitch Battle” today at the iOi Summit

I’m in Chicago at the iOi Summit.

NAR is going to stream the Pitch Battle live on their LinkedIn feed at 12:45PM PT. Below is list of the participants.

I’m a little biased but check out Tuesday. The founder Cole Boyer is second on the lineup. Each presenter will only have 4 minutes to pitch their product. Should be fun!

CRMLS launches Thrive Broker Summit

Thrive Broker Summit, Powered by California Regional MLS, is Poised for Success with a Top-Notch Speaker Lineup and an Impressive Registration List of California’s Highest-Performing Brokers

“I’ve had the pleasure to personally see all the Thrive speakers present before, and I wanted to bring their combined expertise to California’s elite brokerage community,” said CRMLS CEO and Thrive speaker Art Carter. “There’s a lot of understandable tension in the air about all the changes happening right now. The vision of Thrive Broker Summit is to offer actionable insights and draw a map into the future so that we can all succeed together. As we like to say; adapt through change, thrive with knowledge.”

CRMLS

Great lineup. I’m hearing that this may the first interview Phil Hawkins will be giving since accepting the CEO post at California Association of REALTORS (CAR)

See you in Chicago!

Webinar: Transaction Management vs. Deal Management. What’s the big diff?

I’ve always been a big fan of simple, focused software. In today’s parlance that would mean, “point solutions”. Software that does one (or two) things, and does them great. Now many of the larger companies are switching to “end to end” platforms, which also have a place. So when Vijay, CEO of co-founder of Trackxi, asked me to join him on this webinar I quickly agreed. I think it will be a great opportunity to discuss these topics and about some the changes in the industry is going through and how vendors are creating new categories to compete.

Registration Link => Why top agents are ditching transaction management software?

Calling all speakers

My good friend Audie Chamberlain is hosting a free workshop that I know many of you would benefit. He is going to show you how to submit speaker submission applications for NAR NXT and other events.

Click this link to register = > Lion & Orb Workshop: Speaker Submissions

Greetings from London

I’m on vacation traveling with the family in the U.K. and having a blast. Quick story, my son Toby plays tennis for the JV team at his High School. Wimbledon is going this week so we thought we would try and get tickets. Tickets are distributed via a lottery system (we missed that) and are incredibly expensive if you buy them from a 3rd party (scalper) but they have a program called “The Queue” where they set aside a tickets for people who buy at the event. You just have to can come early and line.

We made the trek (along with my brother in law Tony) from our hotel at 4 AM (figured we get there early), took a cab, and much to our dismay it looked like people could camp there overnight as well. Hopefully there would still be tickets left, maybe not to see a match but get in and watch matches from the lawn.

We were given a ticket (it was all very well organized) we happened to be 1120 – 1122. The guy behind us (local) said “brilliant” when he got his ticket because apparntely anything below 1500 meant we had a chance at least for Court 2.

Well after 6 hours of waiting in line (along with a couple bacon sandwiches from the food truck) we were able to get and purchase tickets ($140 each, way below what the scalpers were asking for) and we got on to Court 1. And wow what amazing seats! Toby was thrilled.

We got to see some great tennis from Daniil Medvedev (Men’s number 3 in the world) and Aryna Sabalenka (Women’s number 2 in the world).

You can follow me on Instagram if you want to see more photos. Cheers!

Event: Turn On

As one does, I was going through my inbox and came across a gem from Marc Davison of 1000watt. The piece is entitled, The harpoon and the row boat. Marc is a great writer, and for some reason when I read anything he writes I hear the voice of Bono from U2 in my head. Are they really going to perform without Larry Mullen Jr.?? But I digress.

The article is an example of the deep thinking the guys at 1000watt put into real estate. In this case “recruiting”. But it’s more than “recruiting”. It’s coming at a problem with a design mindset. It’s asking question after question after question after question until you get to the essence of the problem you are trying to solve.

What the article also reminded me of is an event 1000watt is hosting next month in Portland, Oregon. It’s called TURN ON. I’m going and I CAN NOT WAIT! And what I have written about this event before is still true today.

“So if you want to cleanse your palette of the normal, because in 2023 we are all going to need new ideas and inspiration, then you should sign up too.”

The guys at 1000watt have been generous to give me a couple tickets to give away at a phoneomal discount. But only to those who haven’t registered already.

So if you are interested in joining me and other truth seekers be one of the first ones to reach out to me I’ll send you a link.

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List of 2023 Real Estate Events

A COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF 2023 REAL ESTATE EVENTS

“We intend to make this list as comprehensive and up to date as possible over the course of the year. Email daniel@inman.com with events for consideration or with changes to events already on the calendar. Please include the name of the event, the date and a website as we update the post periodically.”

I’ve tried and failed at putting together a list like this hopefully Daniel and Inman News does a better job. I’m going to be optimistic and bookmark this in my browser. Thanks Inman News!

UPDATE: WAV GROUP also has an excellent resource => Real Estate Events and Happenings

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