Debra Kamin
speaker
405 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 5 Jun
Debra Kamin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 1.
Appearances
And I first became aware of him because a source sent me a video on Instagram that Mike had made.
He created a handle called Realtors Hate Me, and he was chronicling the process of selling his house himself without an agent. Are you okay if I record our call? Yeah, that's fine. Okay. Fabulous. So I called him to find out what was going on, and he told me his story. Mike is a former professional athlete and entrepreneur.
And Mike has a really nice house.
It's worth probably about $2.75 million.
Really nice house, turnkey, renovated.
He decided to put it on the market. He interviewed a handful of real estate agents.
He knew about the settlement. He had read the reporting. He knew that things were supposed to be different now. There was supposed to be room for negotiation.
Every single seller who came to his home said, I'm not willing to negotiate and wanted him to pay at least 5% commission.
On a $2.75 million house, that's over $100,000.
Exactly. For many people in this country, that's a salary for a year they can only dream of achieving. And he could not figure out what the agents were going to do that was worth $100,000.
And a lot of real estate agents obviously would disagree with this, but from Mike's opinion, this is his asset. He did not want to put forth $100,000 or more of the sale price to an agent, but nobody was willing to negotiate.
So he said to himself, how hard can it be?
I'm going to do it myself. That's my plan. And he began not just selling his house on his own, but chronicling the whole thing online for viewers and building a following as he did it.
He starts running into roadblocks. He learns very quickly that the industry has made it much harder than he thought to sell his house. First of all, he knows that if he wants a buyer to come, he needs to offer commission to the buyer. He was willing to.
It's almost like he's in court representing himself.
So he knows if I want buyers to come, I should probably be willing to pay the buyer's agent commission.
Exactly. So he's willing to pay that commission, and he wants to get the house listed on the MLS so people can find it. Now, if you're not working with an agent, how do you list a house on the MLS?
He Googles it. He figures this out. There's companies that do this for you. But he lives in Colorado, and he quickly learns that in Colorado, there are laws that say if I'm going to list the house on the MLS, I have to also do a bunch of other stuff, and you have to pay me all this stuff. It's a rule designed by realtors to make it too hard to get your house listed on the MLS.
Then he realizes that he wants to get his house listed on Zillow. Everybody uses Zillow and Redfin to search for houses.
And he learns that Zillow actually has a program that homes that are sold for sale by owner, not with agents, are actually harder to find than homes that are listed by agents.
Showing 361–380 of 405 · page 19 of 21
← Previous
Next →