B Thomas Collins II | Real Estate Coach

Nintendo sold 5.2 million copies of its The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake in just four days, invigorating the Switch 2 platform that had been waiting for a blockbuster hit bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

There are more than twice as many condo sellers as buyers right now. 🏠 As of September, there were 123% more condo sellers than buyers in the US, the biggest gap Redfin has recorded in 13 years. Buyers are wary of rising HOA fees, special assessments, and insurance costs, and higher mortgage rates are making it harder for first-time buyers. Read more: finance.yahoo.com/real-estat…

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Questions are answered as you move, not before you move. Moving forward with an answer that is partially correct will usually fill in the gaps faster than waiting until you come up with a plan that is perfectly correct.

my little side project, Taste, is at a pretty unexpected inflection point. there’s a real chance it does over $400k in revenue this month, most of it profit. something i started as a joke to make fun of the taste discourse in X has suddenly turned into something that can likely become a very real business. which has created an interesting dilemma. i could keep bootstrapping it and build something incredibly profitable. or i could raise venture capital, build a team, and go after what i think is a much bigger opportunity in how AI learns to design and giving everyone a creative brain to use with any agent. the more i work on it, the more convinced i am that there’s a venture-scale company hiding inside this little side project. but also the idea of doing it with my own money and owning 100% is very tempting too

One of the biggest inventory pile-ups on the U.S. Housing market is happening in Salt Lake City. Metro supply just exclipsed 4,000 in October 2026. That's now 43% above the long-term average, and a 10-year record. The reason supply in SLC's metro is surging is due to a combination of a collapse in demand (sales down 50% from pandemic peak) To go along with houses sitting on the market for an extended period. Thus far, SLC's home values have held, still up 1.1% YoY. But that could soon change in 2027 given how much supply continues to rise. Reventure is forecasting Salt Lake's market to correct by -5.5% in the next year. Values have nearly tripled since 2012. So this will be welcome relief to buyers. Check the inventory levels for your ZIP at: reventure.app/map/XiAtkmD7Ta

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Our quarterly investor update goes out tomorrow. It's around 5,000 words, and today I'm spending another 9 hours writing it, on top of the more than 50 hours I've already spent. I go into detail about what's happening in the retail market, the impact of interest rate volatility, the status of each of our properties, how things are tracking, and what we're focusing on. I end by telling investors the exact date of the next update. It's time-consuming and meticulous, but I cannot express how important it is and how much investors appreciate it. Aside from delivering strong returns, I don't think there's anything more important you can do for your investors than put in the time and effort to ensure they know exactly what's going on.

Five non-coding methods I use to make my AI adversarial reviews more helpful: 1/ Multiple personas as subagents I have Claude spin up three separate subagents, each one a different reviewer: someone who loves our product and uses it for everything, someone who hates our product and wants to destroy us, and someone who has no idea what’s going on and keeps making mistakes. In product reviews, you can combine this with your customer avatar reviews (ie descriptions of your 5 ideal buyers). 2/ Make the reviews multimodal Ask AI to not only review the PRD or product as these personas, but also to record actual video walkthroughs as the persona, take screenshots, tweet fake tweets about it. It's not enough to just review in text format. Also ask them to review it multiple times. 3/ Use all your subscriptions Ask other AI systems to review it with those personas or to invent personas and do the same combo of steps one and two or just to review it for issues/bugs/errors. If you built it in Claude, have Codex review. If you built in Codex, have Antigravity review, etc. 4/ Multilayered judging The main agent collects all the feedback from the personas and reviews the work itself. Pretty much everyone stops there. Gremlin mode: make the main agent pass it BACK to the subagents to review again, who then pass it BACK to the main agent to collate. Not enough people are playing AI as a judge or AI ping-pong as my team calls it. You can still ask for the full and complete list of feedback points and mark out which ones were added/removed at each switch. 5/ Tell the AI it’s someone else’s work This one is more anecdotal, but I find the review meaningfully improves when the AI thinks the work isn’t mine. So instead of “review this email draft,” try “review this email draft - it’s written by my cousin who always says the wrong thing.” Or instead of “review this app and make it better,” try “hey review this app - my best friend made it and more than anything, even if it means disappointing her in the short-term, I want her to succeed.” Years ago, when Anthropic first rolled out Claude, they told the world they wanted Claude to be the three Hs: helpful, honest, and harmless. I believe OpenAI had essentially the same three, just with synonyms. My theory for the fifth tip above centers on “helpful.” When it’s my work, helpful immediately translates to compliment me. Model sycophancy is poison for outcomes imo, though it has certainly gotten better over time. Take your name off your work (temporarily). Then loop it again.

Anyhow, in a little over a week we will see the release of The Last Human Game. There will never be another AAA game at the scale of GTA 6 with no AI assistance. People will look back at an all-human game with a billion dollar budget and wonder how they did it, like the Pyramids