Everyone has an opinion on real estate, but who should you actually listen to? Spoiler: probably not your parents, your boss, or that TikTok agent with a flashy dance routine.
In this episode of The Last Honest Realtor, host David Fleming delivers a hilarious and brutally honest breakdown of the 10 worst sources of real estate advice—and why their opinions are often riddled with bias, bad logic, and outright misinformation.
In This Episode:
- Your Parents’ Bad Advice – Why their experience in the ‘80s doesn’t apply today.
- The TikTok Agent Problem – How short-form hype kills real estate credibility.
- The In-Law Agenda – Why they’re really pushing that suburban house.
- Your Boss Knows Best? – The out-of-touch advice that could cost you.
- BlogTO’s Real Estate Take – Why their headlines are all doom and gloom.
Timestamps:
00:00 – Introduction: The people who love giving bad advice.
04:10 – Why everyone in Toronto thinks they’re a real estate expert.
09:30 – Parents, in-laws, and coworkers—why their advice is full of bias.
14:45 – The social media problem: Trusting influencers over experience.
20:15 – Why real estate agents on TikTok aren’t giving you real data.
27:00 – The BlogTO effect: How bad journalism fuels market myths.
34:20 – What real estate actually takes (and why most people get it wrong).
40:55 – Final thoughts: The best way to filter good advice from bad.
Don’t Miss:
- The #1 group most people trust (but really shouldn’t).
- Why taking advice from the wrong people can cost you thousands.
- The shocking reason even real estate agents can’t be trusted blindly.
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