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Bridget Smith, a real estate investor/agent who’s been involved in more than 80 transactions to date, never set out to become a real estate agent. In fact, she told me that when she first dipped her ...

When Jill Langen decided to list her Clarkston, Michigan, home of 25 years for sale last month, she did it without the help of a real estate agent. Seven days later, she had an agreement signed with a ...