Practical guides on dividing a parent's belongings fairly, running a small silent auction, selling to the best offer instead of the first reply, and renting to the best tenant.
Twelve people ask if it's still available. Three offer half. One says they'll come at six and doesn't. Here are the replies that work, in order of how much of your weekend you want back.
Read the full story →The big platforms are built for a 400-person gala. Most silent auctions are a PTA with 30 baskets in a cafeteria. Here is how to run that one well: what to charge as a starting bid, how to stop the last-minute pen fights, and how to let people bid from their phone without downloading anything.
Read the full story →Nobody fights over the money. The money has a number on it. The fights are over the piano, the ring and the photo albums, and every family invents a method on the spot. Here are the five methods families use, where each one breaks, and the one that makes everybody come out ahead.
Read the full story →Can you rent to the highest bidder? In most of North America, yes — but fair housing law, rent-stabilized units, and a handful of local bans set real limits. Here's what landlords can and can't do, and how to keep a bidding process defensible.
Read the full story →Every day your rental sits empty is rent you never get back. Counterintuitively, the fastest way to fill it — and earn more — is to price slightly below market to trigger a flood of demand, then let a structured bidding process turn that flood into the best tenant at the highest rent.
Read the full story →Real estate agents have triggered bidding wars with strategic underpricing for decades. Here's how landlords can finally use the same proven playbook for rentals — transparently, and within the law.
Read the full story →Posting everywhere is good advice — until you rent the place on one platform and forget to close the other three. Here's the hidden chaos of multi-platform listings, and how one link fixes it.
Read the full story →Zillow, Kijiji, Rightmove, Domain, Craigslist — there have never been more places to list a rental. We compare every major platform worldwide, and show how one link adds transparent bidding to any of them.
Read the full story →You sent the perfect application and heard nothing back. No rejection, no feedback, just silence. Here's why renting feels broken — and what's finally starting to change.
Read the full story →I listed a two-bedroom apartment at a fair price and had 200+ applications within 48 hours. There's no good system for sorting through that — so I built one.
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