Buying and selling real estate often involves ethical gray areas, and small mistakes can carry serious consequences. In this episode, we focus on the ethics of negotiation, including contract errors, inspection missteps, and challenging situations involving sellers and buyers. We share cautionary tales from the field, review early year market data, discuss bidding wars and pending sales, and talk through what we’re seeing anecdotally in the market. We also touch on recent news and notable sales.

The House Einstein Podcast is available wherever you podcast. Hosted by Osman Parvez and Hamish Crabb.

Opening Story or Quote: 

As much as we might like that it’s been T-shirt weather practically all winter, having it be in the 60’s and so dry is actually quite catastrophic for the ecosystem for a million reasons. The pollinators are out now when there is no food for them, they should be asleep, instead they die. We need them in the spring to pollinate all of our fruits and vegetables. If the trees and plants leaf out super early the caterpillars come out as well. The migrating birds however won’t be back (they go by daylight hours not temperature) so when they do come back to nest and hatch babies, no caterpillars anywhere to be found so lots of bird mortality. Not cold enough to kill off the spruce and pine bark beetles in winter any longer so they will certainly be out decimating our drought stressed trees making for an awesome fire season this summer. And the critters that need a snowpack for insulation like the pika just get to freeze with the snow thawing and then reforming rather than staying a thick layer all winter. I could go on but you get the point. I really hope we actually get a winter soon even if I might complain about shoveling snow and being freezing, we really need it.”  – Anonymous H.S. Science Teacher

Recorded Date: 2/3/26
Published Date: 2/6/26

Topics:

• WELCOME
  • Declare Mission: Entertain, Discuss Real Estate, Help You Better the Market
  • Bios (who we are)
  • Disclaimer
  • Call to Action (Contact Us)
  • Review Topics Du Jour

• THE CLOSING TABLE | Ethics of Negotiation 
  • Mistaken Contract Signing
  • Wrong Line on the Inspection Objection
  • Elderly Seller and Daughter Custodian (to pay for assisted living)

• TALES FROM THE TRENCHES | 
  • Wife IS on Title Afterall (You Get What You Pay For)
  • Fraudulent Seller Episode

• MARKET CONDITIONS
  • Analysis of DTO and Bidding Wars
  • What We’re Seeing Anecdotally

• (LESSONS FROM) SALES OF THE WEEK
  • 4760 Lee Circle
  • 1120 Hartford Dr
  • 4630 Talbot Dr
  • 3000 Colorado Ave D-114

• SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION
  • Louisville Listing – Months away but really nice house, incredible backyard

• IN THE NEWS
  • Precious Metal Rollercoaster
  • Dollar Bounces Back (Dead Cat Bounce?)
  • Local Billionaires and Epstein

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