Personal REALTOR® Anecdotes. On my last post Joy Carter REALTOR® commented: "It is amazing how often they feel they know more than we do. They hire us for our expertise and then refuse our advice!" It's a great observation about common consumer behavior. I didn't respond because she made some more relevant points.
I suspect people question their REALTORS® because everyone over 30 knows some if not many bad REALTOR® stories. Some are even true. Most start with the results and alter the facts to change the blame!
What about the good stories?
How many good stories, besides your own do you know? We've all got an endless supply of client abuse and poor service stories. We have a few on both sides of the headline making extremes, but how about those great personal moments?
What have you done to better some ones life that onlt the participants know?
Please share!
I'll start, add your's below.
I'd been in real estate less than a year when the VP of a local bank ask me to look at an REO the bank had, had for almost three years. This had been a new house lived in less than 6 months when abandon. It was a great 4 bedroom, 3 bath, rancher with full basement and detached 2.5 car garage on about 2 acres. With a huge pool!
What could be wrong with such a place? The pool! The pool was 6 feet of water in the basement! The basement flooded with every rain! It had been built in Southern Michigan's black clay with out the a tile field around the bottom and sump pump. The property had been listed 5 times 6 months at a time, with lots of showings and not a single offer.
To keep this short let just tell you: I knew a young contractor with a wife and three kids, he owned a tractor with a loader up front and a back hoe. He needed a home. He needed a place to park the tractor. He needed a trailer to carry the tractor, He needed a dump truck to hall the dirt he loaded and to pull the trailer. He had the ability to fix the house. He didn't have any savings!
I showed him the house, I ask about the cost of supplies to repair it, he told me. I ask about the cost of the truck and trailer, he knew. I ask him to give me a few days. I presented my ideas to the VP, I came back with a pre accepted sales agreement signed by the seller! The bank financed the house, the cost of repairs, a Dump truck they had repossessed and a new trailer to haul behind it. Needless to say my WIN, WIN, WIN, WIN!!!
My broker wanted to know where I learned to have the seller sign an O & A first, but he forgave me when the bank paid us 8% on everything!
Now what's your story?
Feel free to included links if they're reverent.
Bill
William J Archambault Jr
The Real Estate Investment Institute
wja@reii.org Cell 832-259-7078, Houston 832-582-8415, Las vegas 702-516-1569
From my past: GRI 1975, FLI 1974, Catalyst from a client 1974 an agent that makes things happen, REII, The Real Estate Investment Institute 1995.
©William J Archambault Jr ©The Real Estate Investment Institute ©REII
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I remember that house, South of Austin Lake!
Brenda