The real estate industry on trial

2024-04-05 08:47:0732:33 89
所属专辑:Planet Money
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In 2019, Mike Ketchmark got a call. Mike is a lawyer in Kansas City, Missouri, and his friend, Brandon Boulware, another lawyer, was calling about a case he wanted Mike to get involved with. Mike was an unusual choice - he's a personal injury lawyer, and this was going to be an antitrust case.

But Brandon knew Mike was great in front of a jury. And that he'd won huge settlements for his clients in the past.

So the lawyer friend drops by Mike's office, and pitches him the case. Rhonda and Scott Burnett had just sold their home for $250,000, and out of that amount, they had paid $15,000 in commission (plus a small fee), which was split between two real estate agents - even though they had hired only one. And the commission was high - 6%. Mike's friend said the whole thing seemed... suspicious. Maybe even illegal.

Mike agreed to take the case, a case that would soon become bigger than one about just what had happened to the Burnetts. It would become a fight about the way homes are bought and sold in the U.S. and challenge the way real estate agents have done business for more than 100 years.

Transcript:
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197958698

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呼儿嘿呦麦芽糖

有没有带翻译的

梦中的搬运工 回复 @呼儿嘿呦麦芽糖

在简介里有Transcript的链接,打开后,可以自行将原文翻译哦

呼儿嘿呦麦芽糖 回复 @呼儿嘿呦麦芽糖

你好,打开网址了,都是英文,点哪个才能翻译呢

呼儿嘿呦麦芽糖 回复 @呼儿嘿呦麦芽糖

你好,打开网址了,都是英文,要点哪个才能翻译呢

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