The Agency founder Mauricio Umansky believes the art of genuine communication is dying, and it’s up to real estate agents to keep it alive or lose ground to disruptive real estate tech companies pushing things like iBuying.
Source: Inman News
Genuine communication is the antidote to iBuying
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