RoboRealter vs. the Human Touch

Since the first time a Visigoth handed over the keys to his castle, the formula for success in real estate has been simple: he who has the most information wins. Then came the internet.

The tech revolution has dinged real estate industry more profoundly than years of litigation has altered R.J. Reynolds. Add to that two years of a catastrophically down market and what do you get? Some realtors are grasping at straws – or disappearing completely from the scene – while others are finding creative ways to make themselves more valuable than a website.

Inman News, where “real estate and technology connect,” holds an annual conference that attempts to address the changes head-on. Their solution is to meet technology with more technology. Two years ago, I sat through 90 minutes of a guy trying to teach a room full of realtors how social networking could change their lives. His message was as simple – “get a Facebook page” – as it was incomplete.

The problem, as I saw it, was that while Inman was forging forward, tech-wise, they were sticking to the old paradigm: he with the most information wins.

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Insight into History - A Weekly Instrospective Into The Past

Long before the beginning of the period known as the Middle Ages a tribe of barbarians called the Goths lived north of the River Danube in the country which is now known as Roumania. It was then a part of the great Roman Empire, which at that time had two capitals, Constantinople—the new city of Constantine—and Rome. The Goths had come from the shores of the Baltic Sea and settled on this Roman territory, and the Romans had not driven them back.

During the reign of the Roman Emperor Va’lens some of the Goths joined a conspiracy against him. Valens punished them for this by crossing the Danube and laying waste their country. At last the Goths had to beg for mercy. The Gothic chief was afraid to set foot on Roman soil, so he and Valens met on their boats in the middle of the Danube and made a treaty of peace.

For a long time the Goths were at war with another tribe of barbarians called Huns. Sometimes the Huns defeated the Goths and drove them to their camps in the mountains. Sometimes the Goths came down to the plains again and defeated the Huns.

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