Bob Bryan

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Banned from Zillow: The fight over secret home listings is getting ugly

2 days ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |James Rodriguez |Henry Blodget

Jennifer Knoll got the first email from Zillow shortly after 5 p.m. on a Wednesday in late May. The next day, she received another. By the time the weekend arrived, she had three warnings from the home-search giant sitting in her inbox. Knoll has been helping people buy and sell houses in the Washington, DC, area for roughly two decades, the last six of which she's spent as an agent with the real estate brokerage Compass.
I wrote about millennials' real estate woes. Then I felt the wrath of Gen X.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |James Rodriguez |Henry Blodget

Tales of intergenerational turmoil tend to strike a nerve, so I steeled myself for some angry emails last month when I wrote a story about the millennials who aren't ready to inherit homes from their baby boomer parents. Both boomers and millennials have good reason to get touchy about media scrutiny — each side has caught plenty of grief for the economic shortcomings of the younger generation.
Scammers are luring nervous Americans with texts promising them lucrative employment

3 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |Emily Stewart |Henry Blodget

It's easy to read a text offering what is clearly a fake job and think, "Who in the world would fall for this?" Of course, Temu or Target isn't going to send me an unsolicited message with a too-good-to-be-true employment offer out of the blue. Except scammers don't do things that don't work — so while it may seem obvious to you, there are people who absolutely fall for these tricks, and no one is immune.
Trouble in Florida's real estate paradise is a grim warning for all of America

3 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |James Rodriguez |Henry Blodget

Zach Janik had all the makings of a Florida lifer. Born and raised in West Palm Beach, he spent most of his adult years in St. Augustine, a small beach town on the state's northeast coast. In 2018, just shy of 30, he purchased a tidy three-bedroom house for $195,000. Life was good. A few years into the COVID-19 pandemic, though, he no longer recognized the place he had long called home.
All-in Pricing With No Hidden Fees Is Here, and It's Awesome

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |Emily Stewart |Henry Blodget

If you haven't seen it yet, go check out Airbnb, Ticketmaster, Booking.com, or StubHub and behold the magic that is all-in pricing. These platforms, which once had a reputation for stacking on hidden fees as consumers got to the checkout page, are now showing their costs up front. It's not because all these companies have had a collective epiphany — it's because the government is compelling them to be more transparent.
Your Credit Card Rewards Are Getting Worse Thanks to Recession Worries

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |Juliana Kaplan |Henry Blodget

For a certain subset of Americans, credit card rewards make the world go around. The cottage industry around credit cards and their requisite rewards is centered on a tantalizing prospect: You spend money to make money. And, if you play the game right, you can secure perks you'd never otherwise afford. I've spoken to younger credit card holders who have found themselves in luxury layback seats on planes or in fancy airport lounges.
It's Getting a Lot Harder to Work From Another Country

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |Emily Stewart |Henry Blodget

William Fischer was in Peru, about to embark on a motorcycle tour around South America, when he got an offer he couldn't refuse — a job offer, that is. A US-based fintech startup reached out in spring 2024, and Fischer was intrigued. The only hiccup: They were 100% in office, no exceptions. The mandate didn't jibe with his LatAm-by-bike plan, or the digital nomad lifestyle he'd lived since 2021, working remotely while traveling to Spain, Mexico, and South Africa, among other locales.
Millennials aren't ready to inherit homes from their baby boomer parents

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |James Rodriguez |Henry Blodget

Chelsea Atkinson understood, at least in theory, that her father's house might one day be hers. She just didn't expect that day to arrive so soon. The death of her father in 2019 came as a shock: He was just 58, but complications from an earlier bout with lung cancer led to a quick decline. "It was like, 'Boom,'" Atkinson says. She was 28, an only child, and had already purchased a house in Austin, where she'd grown up.
From guitars to tubas, Trump's tariffs are making musical instruments more expensive

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |Emily Stewart |Henry Blodget

Alex Mundo gets a little worked up at the idea of tariffs making the instruments at his music store more expensive, especially for beginners. "There's going to be a lot of kids now who aren't going to be able to get their stuff, aren't going to be able to become musicians," he says. "It's already becoming very cost-prohibitive as it is."Mundo is a jack-of-all-trades within one trade: music.
America's Cracking Job Market: Layoffs, Unemployment, Recession

1 month ago | businessinsider.com | Bob Bryan |Neil Dutta |Henry Blodget

The US jobs market is almost never perfectly in balance. Even when things appear calm, there's some movement under the surface. Just take a cursory look at a chart of the national unemployment rate — the line is almost always moving up or down. Rarely does the line move sideways. This truism is why I have some worries about the fairly sanguine view that the most powerful economic policymakers have toward the state of the labor market.