James, your thoughts.

Obviously, I agree with everything Leo said, uh, not just because we work together, but it all does align, and people who have been following us know that we have been saying the same thing from stages for two years.

We became friends a few years ago and then really got aligned last year.

And, you know, look, I'll, I'll add from, you know, NextHome's perspective, I recognize that we built this business from the ground up, no investors, from our garage, mortgaged our houses, and took all of our savings accounts to create the company.

We built this beautiful, you know, boutique franchise business and got to be a, you know, pretty significant player in the market.

And looking at the tea leaves, I'm not shy about it, I think, you know, private listings are a really bad thing for the industry.

It's always been, in my opinion, something that should be used in a very small use case.

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Love it

... which is really, really cool, of him standing out front of, uh, his building.

My grandparents are both, uh, Realtors.

My parents are both Realtors.

I grew up in a real estate family.

Worked for my parents' company when I was younger.

Got involved in prop tech.

Like, as you are speaking to the, you know, brokers and agents who, who listen to us, what does all of this mean for the next few years in the industry in terms of all these different kinds of consolidation? Like, do you think there's more happening in that direction, more investment in technology, new emergent business models? Like, where do you think all this, all this heads?