Toby Tobin's (gotoby) Blog

In a heavy turnout on May 21st, voters in tiny Minturn, Colorado overwhelmingly (87%) supported a referendum to approve the annexation of 5,300 acres into their town. The land, located on Battle Mountain a short distance from Vail, was purchased by the Ginn Company for $32.75 million. Ginn plans ...

I cannot count the number of times people have remarked to me that they believe that real estate commissions are too high. After all, why should someone pay 6% of the selling price of their property when the sales agent may have spent less than 20 hours dealing with the listing? Six percent of $2...