Press · October 16, 2018

What the October 2018 Inman story taught us

By HomeyPoints.com Staff

The October 2018 Inman coverage showed that new local real-estate marketing channels can create real industry questions.

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Story

What happened.

On October 16, 2018, Inman covered the industry reaction around HomeyPoints and My Home Agent. Being early in a new search channel meant answering practical questions about brokerage rules, local marketing, and how agent visibility should work.

That experience shaped the HomeyPoints model that still matters today: flat monthly marketing, one agent per zip code, no referral split, and a direct path from homeowner inquiry to the agent.

Why that still matters

AI search creates a new version of the same challenge. Agents need public marketing assets that are easy to understand, easy to verify, and clear about who owns the local relationship.

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