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Speaker 1: What's up this way up with ange La Gee, I'm

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Speaker 1: here and my girl Darrol Fairweather is here, chief economist

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Speaker 1: at redfin Okay, welcome back.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to talk

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Speaker 2: to you again.

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Speaker 1: This is an exciting time because last time we spoke,

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Speaker 1: you know, the housing market things were a little bit

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Speaker 1: dismal for people. But now it looks like things are

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Speaker 1: on the upswing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, the fact just cut rates and that means that

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Speaker 2: mortgage rates have come down, which means it's actually a

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Speaker 2: lot more affordable to buy a home than it was

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Speaker 2: just a couple of months ago. Four hundred dollars last

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Speaker 2: a month for the typical mortgage.

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Speaker 1: And now I also know people are definitely refinancing at

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Speaker 1: this time too, So I saw that happen like immediately right.

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Speaker 2: The refinance applications they just popped today or popped this week.

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Speaker 3: Now, you also have a book that people can pre

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Speaker 3: order Hate.

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Speaker 2: The Game, Yes, Hate the gamebook dot com if you're

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Speaker 2: looking for it.

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Speaker 1: And I want to say, I know Freakonomics was a

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Speaker 1: book that really inspired you. But what I love is

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Speaker 1: when people read this book, I feel like this will

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Speaker 1: have the effect on them the next generation their freakonomics

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Speaker 3: You know, that book is why.

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Speaker 1: You became an economist, which is something you hadn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: considered before, and there were a lot of things at

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Speaker 1: play that made it feel like it wasn't going to

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Speaker 1: be something that was the best idea. I want you

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Speaker 1: to talk about that too, because a lot of what

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Speaker 1: this Hate the Game book is about is helping people

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Speaker 1: learn how to make career decisions and things are kind

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Speaker 3: A game, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: But why was being an economists according to your parents,

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Speaker 1: you know, your grandmother, even not the best idea.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So when I went to college MIT, I thought

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Speaker 2: And that was really interesting to me putting that to

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Speaker 2: But when I told my dad, he was disappointed. He

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Speaker 2: thought that would protect me from facing discrimination, like if

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Speaker 2: I went into something that was more objective, where you know,

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Speaker 2: you could tell of a play flies or not. It's

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Speaker 2: like very simple, but when you're writing an economics paper,

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of subjectivity to it, even if economists

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Speaker 3: That's why Pat Daryl, let's go okay.

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Speaker 2: Right, So, but it's hard. It's hard to be the first.

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Speaker 2: It's hard when you don't have role models, when you

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Speaker 1: Right because, as you point out in this book, a

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Speaker 1: lot of times there's advice that people can give you,

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Speaker 2: And how can you improve your options that you can

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Speaker 1: Because sometimes it is just go someplace else and get

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. And I know so many people who have gotten

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Speaker 1: That is very true, and especially because they always tell

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Speaker 1: So are we in a situation now where buyers may

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Speaker 2: Well, some buyers will opt to pay their agent with cash,

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Speaker 2: And if you're telling the seller you don't have to

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Speaker 2: But we'll see how that plays out. That was one

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Speaker 3: Now, another thing that I've been noticing is Miami. The

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Speaker 3: And I'm nervous about all of this and HOA fees.

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Speaker 1: I want to discuss HOA fees and so those are

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Speaker 2: Well, if there is a home owners association and you

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Speaker 2: Hoas that usually have a leader who is making all

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Speaker 2: If you had to predict, well, Harris has an extensive

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Speaker 3: What is Danna Chump's plan.

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Speaker 2: It's a little bit hard to understand the things that

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Speaker 2: So one thing that Trump has talked about time and

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: He's also talked about cutting red tape the way that

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Speaker 2: but he hasn't had this build, build, build message that

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Speaker 1: Right, A lot of people will discuss, oh, this isn't

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Speaker 1: In these suburbs is a lot more space than there

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Speaker 2: apartment buildings or different types of people. And it's really selfish,

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Speaker 2: I think to put that over people who are housing

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Speaker 2: and secure, people who are potentially like won't be able

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Speaker 2: access schools. Some of these suburbs have the best schools,

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Speaker 2: and unfortunately, because of the way that housing has segregated,

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Speaker 2: That exclude certain families from participating in those schools. So

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Speaker 2: I think it's really important for people to see the

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Speaker 2: big picture and kind of think beyond their own preferences.

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Speaker 2: It's more important that people have housing. That is that,

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Speaker 2: you know, you don't have to deal with more more

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Speaker 2: people at the super Yeah, more people at the supermarkets,

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Speaker 2: stilly things like that.

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Speaker 1: Now, do we expect these rates to come down even more?

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Speaker 1: Because I see people are still sitting waiting, like, okay,

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Speaker 1: you know right now the rates are going down, but

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Speaker 1: it's gonna go down even more, that's the expectation.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we're forecasting that rates will continue to go down,

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Speaker 2: not by a whole lot. I think people are hoping

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Speaker 2: that it'll go back to this three or four percent.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, people forget that before that it's never

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Speaker 1: been right right that low.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I think that we'll get down to around

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Speaker 2: five and a half percent for a thirty year fixed

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Speaker 2: rate mortgage by the end of next year. Right now,

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Speaker 2: mortgage rates are at around six point one percent, so

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Speaker 2: not a huge drop, but it is back to kind

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Speaker 2: of normal territory. That's around the rates that we saw

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Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen when the housing market was

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Speaker 2: in you know, a more affordable place. Unfortunately, prices are

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Speaker 2: much higher now right, So even though rates are coming

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Speaker 2: down that makes things more affordable. What will, unfortunately happen

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Speaker 2: is more people will get into the housing market, more

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Speaker 2: people will be competing and bidding up homes, and we'll

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Speaker 2: see prices go up again. The only way to really

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Speaker 2: get out of this is to build more housing.

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Speaker 1: Now. I got to ask you, you know, early on

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Speaker 1: you discuss how your dad your grandmother did not feel

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Speaker 1: like economics was the right move for you. Your grandmother

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Speaker 1: even said even to find a husband, yes, that was

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Speaker 1: the best major.

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Speaker 2: I thought that engineers make the best husbands. That business

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Speaker 2: people are too they're too obsessed with status.

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Speaker 3: But how do they feel now?

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Speaker 2: Well, unfirst till my grandmother has passed away. My dad

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Speaker 2: is obviously very proud of me and how far I've come.

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Speaker 2: I think he would admit that I made the right decision.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the advice I would give to most

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Speaker 2: young people is pursue what you're passionate about, what really

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Speaker 2: gets you excited, because that's what's going to get you

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Speaker 2: through those challenges. Even if I decided to be an engineer.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure I would have faced challenges too, but having

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Speaker 2: that drive and like knowing what I wanted, I think

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Speaker 2: that helped get me through even those challenges.

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Speaker 1: Now I know we can pre order the book Hate

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Speaker 1: the Game? Now, when does the book come out?

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Speaker 2: April Eleventh's actually coming out on the twenty year anniversary

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Speaker 2: of Freakonomics.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, was that planned?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Very coincidentally.

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Speaker 1: No, But it's amazing how And I'm telling you guys,

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Speaker 1: like I haven't finished the entire book yet, but you

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Speaker 1: can see I've been reading it and it's fascinating to

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Speaker 1: me because I do love understanding how different things affect

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Speaker 1: the decisions that we make. And you know, I'm all

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Speaker 1: about like my financial wellness and always trying to level up.

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Speaker 1: And so I think that for anybody, this book is

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Speaker 1: something that is very relatable because you talk about your

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Speaker 1: own life situations, you talk about going to school, you

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Speaker 1: talk about after that, but all of those things that

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Speaker 1: can help people understand all the different ways that you

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Speaker 1: should make decisions. You can make decisions.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I hope it's fun too. I talk about Beyonce,

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Speaker 2: I talk about all the things that I enjoy in life.

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Speaker 2: That make economics fun. So I hope that people enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: It should be an enjoyable read and hopefully you learn

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Speaker 2: a lot too.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, guys, if you see how she loved

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Speaker 1: the book, I guarantee you there's going to be people

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Speaker 1: that are like, this is the book that inspire me.

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Speaker 3: So I told you this.

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Speaker 1: When I first met you, I was like, if I

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Speaker 1: would have met you when I was younger, I probably

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Speaker 1: would have been like, I want to be an economist

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Speaker 1: because you're the only person I've seen that looks like

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Speaker 1: this in this position, like a woman, you know, a

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Speaker 1: black woman that is doing this, and so I just

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Speaker 1: feel like sometimes they always say if you could see it,

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Speaker 1: you could be it, and it was never anything that

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Speaker 1: I would have even considered.

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Speaker 3: But you make it cool.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you. That's the goal, and you make

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Speaker 2: me cool. All right.

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Speaker 1: Well, you guys, pre order this book now. I love

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Speaker 1: every time you come up here. I always tell you

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Speaker 1: when you come into town, I need you to always

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Speaker 1: come and sit down with me because so many different

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Speaker 1: things should one more thing, because you know, I have

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Speaker 1: my real estate license, but people acted like it was

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Speaker 1: a bad time for me to even do that. Because

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Speaker 1: it's so different now and that it's been a lot

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Speaker 1: harder for realtors to even make money. What's your take

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Speaker 1: on that like the future of real estate agents.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think the housing market is going to pop

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Speaker 2: off next year now that rates are down, so there'll

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Speaker 2: be more activity for agents, and the role of agents

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Speaker 2: is changing. I think that now that people are going

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Speaker 2: to have to negotiate with their buyer's agent up front,

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Speaker 2: buyers agents will have to show their value, will have

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Speaker 2: to say what they're going to do that the other

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Speaker 2: agent won't do in terms of taking you on tours

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Speaker 2: or educating you about the process or having you have

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Speaker 2: the best offer. I think people are going to understand

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Speaker 2: more what agents are bringing to the table, which will

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Speaker 2: hopefully make agents better off too that you know they

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Speaker 2: are being valued directly instead of indirectly.

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, well, Daryl Fairweather again, make sure

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