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Quit Your Wining!

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Real Estate Agent with RE/MAX Concierge SL0475285
Last week, I sent an email to the AR guys. Not because I care about my rankings here on AR, but because I felt that I was unfairly criticized. (points removed).  I provided a list of the items that are in my operations guide.  It took me years to refine and revise the guide to where it is the bible for running my business. McDonalds, one of the world’s largest corporations, is run by pimply faced teenagers! How, because they have systems in place that are easily taught to these kids.  I’ve taken that and made my own guide.  The AR guys didn’t feel it was valuable information and reduced my points (despite the positive comments). Then you get something like this to put it all in perspective:

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Comments (8)

Jim Lee, REALTOR, CRS, ABR
RE/MAX Shoreline - Portsmouth, NH
Buying or Selling? Ann & Jim are the local experts

Perspective aside, right is right and so on and so on.

You have to also remember the AR guys are computer/Internet/website types as opposed to the real estate background of most of their 'customers' here.

They seem to lean towards the tech and "Helpful Harry" type of posts for bonus points; obviously they were not able to see the value in your posting on offices systems or maybe they thought you just copied and pasted it.

I went back and reviewed my point and almost all of my bonus point postings were of the types above. 

For what it's worth your systems posting should have been a 400 pointer in my hardly ever humble estimation. ;-) 

It was much better and more useful that some of the "nobody like me" postings we've had a run of lately.

Oct 01, 2006 03:38 AM
Leslie Bloss, Bellevue Real Estate Professional
Bellevue, WA

Excellent Post!  Yesterday I spend the afternoon and early evening showing properties in West Seattle to a couple that I have sold a condo to and they are good friends.  After we were through they said they were going to dinner with a friend (that is also a former client of mine) that lives in Everett (about 30 miles north of Seattle).  So I got an invitation to dinner.   When we got to the Everett house, everyone wanted to view the home that is for sale across the street.  So I started looking for my Palm (which is how I access properties) and after a lot of looking realized that it was left in the last home we viewed.  I suggested we just go to dinner, since I cannot get them into the home.  As I was driving us all to dinner my Everett friend said he couldn't understand why I wasn't in a dither and wanting to rush back and get it.  I told him I don't sweat the small stuff.  Your blog brings us back to realty.  Years ago I volunteered as a telephone worker on the Seattle Crisis Line--it made me feel like "I have no problems." 

Oct 01, 2006 04:30 AM
Bob Pavey
RE/MAX Hometown - Aventura, FL
CRS
Fantastic post, I agree David that was great information if you trully work the business. To all those agents that missed that blog they should look it up had greeat stuff. Thanks
Oct 01, 2006 04:32 AM
Karen Hurst
RICOASTALLIVING.COM - Warwick, RI
Rhode Island Waterfront!

Your post puts it all in perspective, David.

However, points are points:)

Oct 01, 2006 04:42 AM
Bryant Tutas
Tutas Towne Realty, Inc and Garden Views Realty, LLC - Winter Garden, FL
Selling Florida one home at a time
David, awesome post. In my opinion we have no right to whine about anything, ever! We are the most fortunate people on the planet and we need to remember that.
Oct 01, 2006 04:53 AM
Linda Davis
RE/MAX Home Team - Gales Ferry, CT

I went back to your operations guide post.  It was a great post!   I'm a systems oriented person and I also have an operations manual.  We call it the CBA (Current Best Approach) binder.  Thanks for posting your outline!

Linda

Eastern CT Real Estate Blog 

 

Oct 01, 2006 05:45 AM
Geri Sonkin
Douglas Elliman Real Estate 516-457-7103 - Merrick, NY
Long Island Real Estate & Staging Expert

What a great leveler that is.  How dare we whine, when so much of the world has little or nothing.  I'm both devastated and humbled.

How lucky we are . . . on our worst day.

Oct 01, 2006 08:02 AM
Christopher Smith
TREGO REALTY - Cedar Rapids, IA
David, great post, especially on a Sunday, when we recharge our batteries for the upcoming week. 
Oct 01, 2006 08:03 AM