I needed to sell my house. Not because I wanted to. Because I had to.
The MLS controls 80% of the American real estate market. It is a private, for-profit syndicate — not a public utility, not a cooperative, not a service. A corporation. Far away. Collecting both sides of every transaction through a doctrine called procuring cause, until 2024, when the courts finally said enough.
I said it sooner.
Requation is an effort to change the real estate equation — from MegaCorp to every American. Not a listing site. Not a portal. A map. Seen from above, in three dimensions, the way a city actually works. Every property in context. Every neighborhood alive with the intelligence that buyers deserve and sellers have been denied.
I have done this before. In White Center, Seattle — one of America's most forgotten neighborhoods — I once brought fruit to a food desert. Just showed up with produce where there was none. Nobody paid me. That is not the point. The point is that neighborhoods breathe. They need tending.
Requation tends them.
Not to disrupt. Not to raise a Series A. To sell my own properties first — and then to hand every American owner the same map that corporations have kept to themselves.