Show Me the Money – Opendoor 

Home Flipper Business Model Needs Some Work Recent articles and reports covering Opendoor and Zillow’s iBuyer program are casting some shadows upon the viability and profitability of the business model by which they operate. Opendoor Still Going Nowhere Despite...

Zillow Sells 2,000 Homes Part 2

Zillow is not the only publicly traded company involved in this business model: Opendoor, founded in 2014, has been at this for over 7 years, and even with ridiculously strong revenue growth, is struggling to find a profit. Opendoor recently reported revenues of $2.27...

Zillow Sells 2,000 Homes Part 1

Where’s the Profit? Recently Zillow announced that it had determined to get out of the iBuying program business model. This resulted in the company taking a significant loss on the homes that it had purchased. It then announced, according to a Wall Street...

Honoring America’s Veterans

Honoring all of our Veterans who have sacrificed so much for Freedom here and around the world. From all of us at Counsellors Title Agency!! Background on Veterans Day Veterans Day is an official United States public holiday, observed annually on November 11, that...

What Escrow Does

Escrow is a legal financial arrangement which involves a third party who temporarily holds large sums of money or property until conditions and contingencies are met, as in the fulfillment of a purchase agreement for property. The escrow account is fundamentally a...