"We might be the fat cats now, but there are some big eagles out there flying above us, looking at what we have" Peltier told a startled crowd of about 200 colleagues at a Wisconsin Realtors Association conference. "They're saying, "I'm gonna get a piece of that.' "The "fat cats" are the nation's 80,000 realty brokerage agencies and 1.3 million realty agents - "a tremendously inefficient business," said Peltier, president and chief executive officer of fast-growing HomeServices of America in Minneapolis. The "big eagles" include banks, title companies, retailers, credit card companies, online entrepreneurs and corporate conglomerates, he said.
