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Splits and Caps Daily: Action for Agents

July 18, 2025

📈 Market Move:

Right-to-List, Left in the Dust

New Hampshire just joined the “no more shady contracts” club. That makes 33 states that have officially banned those right-to-list agreements — aka NTRAPS — that let companies (like MV Realty) toss a 40-year lien on your house in exchange for a couple grand and a headache that lives longer than your mortgage.

This week’s bill, signed by Governor Kelly Ayotte, basically says: “If your real estate contract sticks around longer than your last three iPhones combined, it’s outta here.”

The move is a big win for groups like AARP and ALTA, who’ve been banging the drum to shut down these borderline villainous agreements that cloud property titles and make it harder for homeowners — especially older folks — to sell or refi.

MV Realty, one of the biggest offenders, is already in bankruptcy court and backing off its contracts, but the damage was done. Attorneys general in 11 states have sued them, and their license has already been revoked in places like Florida and Colorado.

Bottom line? This isn’t just a local clean-up — it’s a full-on regulatory takedown of an entire “innovation” that was really just a 40-year bear trap with a cash bow on top.

🌟Quote of the Day:

"A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence." — Sonia Sotomayor

📊🤔 Agent Poll

🎉 Fun Fact of the Day: 

Spirited Sales: It’s Illegal to Sell a Haunted House in Some Countries. In Japan, if someone dies in a home, sellers must disclose it for up to 10 years. Ghosts... now a line item in the listing description.

📚 Book Recommendation:

“Success Is in Your Sphere” by Zvi Band—This one’s for the agents still chasing cold leads like it’s 2010.

Zvi Band makes the case that your next 10 deals aren’t hiding in some expensive lead gen platform — they’re sitting in your existing network, quietly waiting for you to remember their name and shoot a “just checking in” text.

This book breaks down how to stop letting your relationships collect digital dust and start treating your sphere like the goldmine it actually is. He gives you a simple framework (he calls it CAPITAL, but don't worry — it's not just an acronym salad) to build real connection habits that scale.

It’s not sexy. It’s not flashy.
But if you do what this book says? You become the agent people remember, not the one they awkwardly forget at the coffee shop.

Bottom line:
You don’t need more people. You need to actually stay in touch with the ones you’ve got. This book shows you how.

When it’s hard, that’s the part that counts.

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