real estate agents: Selling Bonus... A Carrot or a Stick?
- 09/07/15 02:09 AM
I saw two emails today with the subject line “Realtor $5,000 Selling bonus”…
I have nothing against the practice. I see it as yet another tool in the arsenal of the Listing agent. And not being a Listing agent, I didn’t think much about it. But I remember once an agent telling me that he wanted to take his client to a new built home, but saw they pay only $1,500, and he did not take the Buyer there.
But isn’t real estate business, as every guru is teaching us? Then why do we run it as a missionary, where we do everything … (18 comments)
|
real estate agents: A Big Wish or Reality?
- 07/26/13 03:25 PM
Alan Kirkpatrick posted I know that you know that I know you know He is so right about Internet, and that we see much better educated Buyers than ever before.
He says "Your local Realtor is a professional in the local market place. Your Realtor knows what works in your city. They have spent years learning the market place, building relationships, networks and perfecting marketing.”
And then adds "your local Realtor knows your CURRENT market better than anyone. They work in it all day long everyday”
Part of me wants to scream “yes” and part of me tells me to shut … (5 comments)
|
real estate agents: Russian Beauty
- 06/17/11 02:54 PM
Today in the morning I received a call that a sale of a 2 bdr/2 baths new condo in DiMucci Twin Towers in Daytona Beach Shores closed. It was an excellent deal for a 1,643 sq. ft. direct oceanfront unit on the 12th floor for $252,500. It was, actually, a wow deal.
For me it was a special closing in many respects. First, it was a referral from a mom and dad, who looked at some properties in our area 3-4 years ago, but later did not buy in Daytona, and bought a house in Orlando. But when their other son started … (19 comments)
|
real estate agents: Victimized by way of License
- 05/18/11 04:56 PM
Agent from one of so many now Exit Realty offices in the area called me a couple of weeks ago and said that she was looking at our listings, unit 1004 in Oceans Grand, and that she had a very picky buyer and she needed me to tell her whether the unit was direct oceanfront, or it was oceanview.
Well, the truth is that Oceans Grand Condominium is not an oceanfront building.
There was a sigh of relief on the other end, and she said that I have saved her a lot of gas. And as if I did not know … (16 comments)
|
real estate agents: Did I Mess Up Your Name?
- 04/09/11 09:42 AM
That's what I did according to my client.
I have helped my client to buy 2 condos in the area. One was a sale at foreclosure auction by the County Court. We got it for 1/3 of the mortgage balance. We have been watching this unit for literally years.
The Client was thrilled and we were even talking with her about going into business together, where she is the money person and I contribute knowledge and sweat. I wanted to show her that she could make money, and I got her that deal for very little.
I wouldn't have done it for what … (18 comments)
|
real estate agents: A List of "I Am Sorry" Agents...
- 03/13/11 04:50 PM
I received a phone call from a fellow agent. He has customers in town and he would love to show them my listing in Fountain Beach Resort. There is a tenant in the unit, and she is not happy when we are showing, so we have to be diplomatic here.
The agent sets the time for 5 PM. We talk to the tenant when she comes from work, and she would leave so that the agent can show it. She promises to have the unit in order, which she does.
Our office is in this resort, and at 4:50 the tenant walks in … (14 comments)
|
real estate agents: The Pied Piper of AR
- 07/31/10 09:01 AM
Debe Maxwell from Charlotte, North Carolina, has crossed the 600,000-point mark. I am surprising nobody, unless they are new to Active Rain. So, if you are newbie, follow Debe and copy the way she works (but not her blogs – LOL).
Debe is pretty much the embodiment of what AR is about if you are looking at it as business. Check the variety of real estate topics, and the quality of her well written localism blogs. She is very organized, and the score attests to that.
If you follow Debe’s blog, you would notice the overall quality of presentation. Not only … (28 comments)
|
real estate agents: Does it mean anything to you?
- 07/30/10 06:30 PM
What do we call the image of the industry, when we are talking about real estate? There is a stereotype of a real estate agent…Many are not really happy with that…In general, it is not flattering. When we know a person better, we know that there are great people, who sell cars, as well as there are honest and diligent people working in government offices, and that there are good real estate agents, I am darn serious, there are…
I imagine that these clichés are different for different people. Here are a couple of clichés that I have when I think … (22 comments)
|
real estate agents: A Bit Of Real Estate Febreze... Will Ya?
- 07/24/10 08:17 AM
I do not really understand the burning concern about the reputation of the Real Estate industry as a whole. There are over 2 mil real estate licensees in the Nation. It is obvious that, like in any other industry or occupation, there are good people and not so good people (which has nothing to do to their affiliation to NAR).
People hire agents not because of the general reputation, but because of their specific need. If they need to sell their property, the majority of them would hire an agent not because they think highly of us, real estate professionals, but because they … (21 comments)
|
real estate agents: You Are Hurting Me, Don't You Get It?
- 05/02/10 11:52 AM
I have bad luck referring business to AR members.
Does not mean there are no decent people on AR, there are...
My client owns 4 duplexes outside of my area. He needs an agent to sell his duplexes. First he needs to know what the prices are today. They are rented, and he is not desperate, so he is not going to walk away, or short sell... so it is either a sale today, or a sale tomorrow. I go to Active Rain, I go to the County, and check the top on the list.
Oh, I know this … (3 comments)
|
real estate agents: Who Said Real Estate Is Boring?
- 02/13/10 05:46 AM
There was a sale of the property. I was on the deed. The buyer couldn't come to the closing due to his schedule, so was driving a day earlier (he is 3-hour drive from us) to sign all the documents because he wanted to do the walk through and make sure everything what was promised to be left was indeed there.
It is a bit earlier than initially planned, so there was a hectic clean-up under way, but I was not there, I was in the office. I spoke to the Buyer's agent a day before, and I told him that because the closing was … (2 comments)
|
real estate agents: Unexpected Google Juice
- 11/29/09 03:47 PM
How do we know that we got Google Juice? That's right... it is when the phone rings. That's the moment we wait for, and that's the moment that we are trying to make happen more often.
But no good deal come unpunished (LOL)
Below is the conversation as real as it can only be when you did not record it with a tape recorder, but tried to remember and recreate. Similar converstations happen daily, this is simply the latest, and, maybe a more bizzare one...
The phone rang yesterday, late Saturday evening.
- Is this Ocean Jewels Resort?
- No. This … (13 comments)
|
real estate agents: Proud Realtors or just Brokers and Agents?
- 10/16/07 05:58 AM
Susan Walters' post (http://activerain.com/blogsview/238744/Mass-emails-on-new) caused a heated exchange, and it clearly shows two different approaches. Obviously, there is a rationale behind both of them.
Nice things said, the reality is that we are often lost is endless rules, regulations, laws... Sometimes it seems that our allegiances are not to the customer, but to the rules and regulations. We are getting so technical.
Sometimes it gets plain stupid. Take the use of the term "Realtor" for example. General public associates it with everyone, who is licensed. They do not know, that there is a narrow (and protected) definition of the term. If you are a … (4 comments)
|
|
|
|
I saw two emails today with the subject line “Realtor $5,000 Selling bonus”…
;)
;)
;)
