Chapter Summary: If I want to still be able to support my family 5 years from now, I can’t ignore the overwhelming evidence that shows that my way of making a living today may not exist 10 years from now.
Netflix, Amazon, Uber, and AirBnB all disrupted their respective industries by going direct-to-consumer and cutting out the middle-man. The next logical step is for companies like Zillow and RedFin to facilitate real estate transactions directly between home-buyers and home-sellers. In fact, most agents pay fees to these companies for leads, so in a sense they are funding the companies who are trying to put the agent out of business.
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