There are some in the real estate brokerage community who are trying to change the system. Check out http://bloodhoundblog.com http://bloodhoundblog.com. You ma

There are some in the real estate brokerage community who are trying to change the system. Check out http://bloodhoundblog.com http://bloodhoundblog.com. You may not agree with their aims (keeping agents in the middle, for instance) but they are fighting the good fight against the National Association of Realtors and, as they call it, Rotarian Socialism. :-) Boil it all down though and they are committed to using tech tools to give their clients a better result. Any movement in that general direction is praiseworthy. One of the reasons that home buying is such a shit experience is frankly because of government intervention. The quantity of useless paperwork required in California is staggering and grows each year. I am not convinced that it helps anyone involved in a transaction. Information asymmetry and transaction costs. There are probably a zillion little MVPs in real estate that can slowly attack one or both of these problems.