To me selling is easy! it's running this office as a broker/owner that's making me nuts! I'm open for only a year and a half, and the list of agents to whom I have shown the door, continues to grow. All I want is mutual respect! Just showing up used to be a blessing, but as a small office, power struggles are extremely obvious to customers and other agents, especially the part-timers.
I started out on Wall Street in commercial real estate in 1983 with a naiive look, and Italian name and no mentor. Anything after that is a walk it the park. I attribute my success as a broker to my personality, and let's not forget folks, we are actors and actresses! The most exhaustings days are when I have to be "on" for an extended period of time instead of just one showing.
What do these agents want?? I gave them every lead, (I list, they sell) and they would still ask me to make the deal for them> them who is selling the prop: you or me? They even had formal training; i hired Corcoran Coaching for one year, which was well worth it.
I recently ran a blind local newspaper ad for agents. One girl called, she didn't have a car! I tried craigs list, nothing. I can't do it all!
Frustrated in New York!
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