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Katie Spaniak

Katie Spaniak

Kati Spaniak is a Northbrook, Illinois real estate broker (eXp Realty) and creator of the "Truth in Real Estate" education platform, known for her YouTube channel on selling homes.

Jul 21, 2026

speaker_1HOST
15:31
Is that right?
15:32
Yeah.
15:32
So there was a lawsuit.
15:33
It was a class action lawsuit.
15:36
And they were basically suing brokerages because it used to be where...
15:42
It used to be where when you would go and sign a listing agreement, the seller's agent would just say, okay, you know, we're going to charge you 5% or 6% and wouldn't really say what you were paying out to the buyer's agent.
15:56
And the buyers would come and they would write an offer and the buyer's agent would get paid out of that.

8 MINS LATER

speaker_1HOST
24:21
And then how does the real estate industry navigate that? Yeah.
1:59
Tell us about how you built that out and, you know, what was your thinking about building that out?
2:04
It was an accident.
2:05
Oh, gosh.
2:07
because I was working on building my YouTube channel for my business in Chicago.
2:12
And so I just thought all I needed to do was just to get a lot of views and then people would just hire me in my area.
2:19
And that's not what happened.
2:21
What happened is that we didn't get any people reaching out in the area of Chicago.

9 MINS LATER

11:22
They're like, how do you know that?

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