Interview with Sarah Olson, Real Estate Campions

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Three months before Lehman, my phone rang and it dropped me into distressed real estate before the word was anywhere near the headlines. A fund manager had just bought a failed bank’s loans through the FDIC. He could name his price on the paper. He just couldn’t see what was sitting underneath it. I could.

What I saw on that call is lining up in front of me again. 240,000 agents heading out of the business by 2026. Activity frozen. The whole MLS structure under legal siege. When the market seizes up like this, the distressed real estate window opens.

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