A Drive-Thru Lesson for the Real Estate Industry By Summer Goralik [This article was also published on my Substack here ] It’s that time of year again when the word “resolution” is sprinkled into conversations like confetti. Everyone seems to buy in, stoked on renewing, resetting, or flat-out changing. Even if you’re not personally in that headspace, someone around you surely is, belting out the words, “This year, I’m going to…” Yes, I have a few resolutions on my 2026 plate

By Summer Goralik This article was originally published by Inman News on December 23, 2025 and can be read here . This is the only way I know how to wrap real estate compliance in a bow this year. After all, ’tis the season for reflection, and it arrives as a letter from compliance to the real estate industry, written in the wee hours of the night. Dear real estate industry, I know it’s late, but I just had the strangest dream. Truthfully, I’m not entirely certain whether I

The Moment Between Chaos and Compliance By Summer Goralik This article was also published to Summer's Substack which you may find here . I hadn’t been to Europe since 2007. I hate flying, so an overseas voyage is never that enticing to me. But eventually, my husband managed to get me and my ten-year-old son on a plane, and we found ourselves in Paris and Rome—two cities that greet you with a very specific kind of beauty coupled with a splash of chaos. What began as a little t

From a Saturday Night Scroll to a Bigger Question About Trust By Summer Goralik Big thanks to Rob Hahn for publishing this piece on Notorious Rob here . An agent, a consumer, and a regulator walk into a bar… Actually, this is no joke. This was my Saturday night. I made the mistake of going down a rabbit hole on Instagram. I know others have fallen victim to this too. But before I tell you what I saw and heard, I need to rewind a bit and paint you a colorful prelude. I have s