The recruiting emails and postcards continue to arrive in my mailbox and inbox from a variety of real estate companies.

Business is better now, and let’s face it: The brokerage with the most agents selling real estate wins.

Most are offering low fees and “cutting-edge technology.” That can’t really compete with what I have now, which is free (or at least cheap) cutting-edge technology, and NO fees.

Low fees and free technology doesn’t seem like an unusual, or even an attractive, value proposition. It doesn’t make me want to run out and sign up. But that is how several brokerages advertise themselves to me.