The Foundation for Economic Education’s site today features this article by a woman in New York who has run into endless trouble for her efforts at establishing a company to save people time and money when they want to rent apartments or buy houses. The villains are not only the usual suspects — real estate interests that don’t want any changes in the way properties are marketed — but also the bumbling NYC bureaucracy.
Carriage makers lost out to automobiles, but realtors are trying to use government to make sure they don’t lose out to the internet.
