Paul Lane (u/paul_lane80)

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A client's simple question about my commission structure made me change my whole pitch

I was going through my usual listing presentation with a couple looking to sell their house in Bakersfield, focusing on my marketing plan and local sales data. Near the end, the husband just asked, 'So, what exactly are we paying you for all this?' I gave my standard line about the 6% commission covering everything, but he pushed back. He said it felt like a flat fee for a service that could vary a lot in effort, asking why a $400k home and a $800k home needed the same percentage. I didn't have a great answer on the spot. After that meeting, I sat down and reworked my whole approach. Now I break down my services into clear tiers with fixed-fee options for certain tasks, and I explain the value at each price point way better. It's made conversations a lot more transparent. Has anyone else shifted to a more itemized or tiered fee model after getting pushback on the standard percentage?

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paul_lane80•28d ago

My kid's tablet got a virus from a free game download

Last Tuesday, my son was playing on his tablet in the living room and downloaded a 'free' racing game. The next day, my bank called about a suspicious $40 charge from an app store. I checked the tablet and found the game had installed a hidden app that was making purchases. I had to factory reset the tablet and finally set up a separate user profile for him with no payment info. Has anyone else found a good way to lock down kids' devices without making them useless?

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paul_lane80•1mo ago

I used a password manager's 'security challenge' and it flagged my oldest password as a duplicate.

It turned out I'd reused that same password on a forum that got breached in 2017. I learned that even a strong password is useless if it's not unique. Has anyone else found a surprise duplicate they thought was safe?

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A client's simple question about my commission structure made me change my whole pitch

My kid's tablet got a virus from a free game download

I used a password manager's 'security challenge' and it flagged my oldest password as a duplicate.

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