Should Real Estate Agents Be Worried About iBuyers? • Close-ing Time • Chris Linsell

Welcome to our monthly feature, Close-ing Time – in partnership with TheClose.com. Chris Linsell from TheClose.com and DJ discuss a viral TikTok video about Zillow's iBuyer program. The conversation continues about anti-competitive measures and market manipulations. Next, they discuss the control of the information shared in various social media platforms between groups of real estate agents. Last, Chris shares some legal questions you may be asked by your clients and that you should be able to answer. If you’d prefer to watch this interview, click here to view on YouTube! Chris Linsell can be reached at [email protected]. This episode is brought to you by Follow Up Boss. Get your 30 day trial by clicking here. Transcript D.J. Paris 0:00Today's episode is brought to you by thumbs up. Here's a cool fact 50% of consumers rely on their social network to help them make purchasing decisions. So let me ask you, how many more referrals and great leads would your business receive if all your happy customers took the time to post their experiences and endorse your business on social media to all their connections? Well, I've got great news thumbs up does just that. Thumbs up is a referral system designed to help businesses leverage their customers social media with almost no hassle. With thumbs up, you can create a personalized post for your customer, allowing them in two easy clicks to celebrate their new purchase or service while endorsing your business to all their connections. Your post becomes their post and all of their friends and family can see your hard work through your customers eyes. And even better thumbs up as offering keeping it real listeners 50% off for your first two months visit get a thumbs up.com forward slash keeping it real and the offer code will automatically be applied at checkout. Again, that's good a thumbs up.com forward slash keeping it real thumbs up referrals without asking. And now on to our show. Right Welcome to keeping it real, the largest podcast made by real estate agents and for real estate agents. My name is DJ Parris. I am your guide and host through the show today is our monthly series called closing time with Chris Lindh sell from the closed.com. This is a partnership between keeping it real and the closed.com Let me tell you about the clothes. The clothes.com is the kind of real estate website designed to give agents teams and brokerages actionable strategic insight from industry professionals. They cover real estate marketing, lead generation technology and team building strategies. From the perspective of working agents and brokers who want to take their business to the next level. Please visit the clothes.com That's th e c l o e s e.com And subscribe to their newsletter so you get notified every time they publish an article with us as always is crystallin sell he is a senior staff writer and real estate coach for the clothes. Chris is the closest resident expert on real estate topics ranging from marketing lead generation transactional best practices and everything in between. He's a licensed agent in the state of Michigan. Chris has been part of hundreds of transactions from modest rural starter homes to massive waterside compounds.