Rory Sutherland
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I once, by the way, I once didn't buy a house basically because the guy was being an asshole about the fridge.
Now, the fridge was only worth, I think, 0.2% of the value of the house, or 0.02% of the value of the house.
I can't quite remember.
But because he was being a dick about the fridge, I no longer trusted him about the house.
Weirdly, it turned out my instinct was right because then a friend of ours went to buy the same house.
They got some separate land registry search done and found out that a chunk of the garden actually belonged to Network Rail, not to the house.
It effectively filched a large part of the garden.
pretty or attractive real estate agents would be more successful than... It's a really interesting question, which is I think, you know, I think we ought to study these things much more because the assumption of an economist is that you need to disintermediate.
You don't need estate agents.
We just go on...
Willow, Zillow, sorry, or Rightmove in the UK or whatever it is.
What's the Canadian equivalent?
I don't even know.
Cabins.com or whatever.
Okay, realtor.com.
Exactly.
You go on one of those things.
You choose the house you want.
You look at it.
You then look at the house, get a survey done, buy the house.