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Castigating Those Quiescence Obdurately At The Limen

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Services for Real Estate Pros with The Real Estate Investment Institute 1retiredsage

Do you Castigat Those Quiescence At The Limen, do you ecumenically di-sport and Obdurately fiduciary?

Yes, it’s English! So is real estate and lending! Think about how consumers feel as we walk them through the wonderful world of home ownership and real estate investing. Like you they have heard the words before and may be able to understand when individually put into context. But, when the context is more obscurity they depend on you their agent, their fiduciary, their salesman!

Are you guilty of criticizing those resting stubbornly at the threshold of a decision do you mix diverse elements to cloud over personal recommendations?

Do you follow the cabal of bad examples propagated by HGTV? Have you ever dinned at a restaurant with an exotic cuisine? Are you as good at what you do as the waitresses/waittri at those restaurants?

If you’re insulated so be it! Your first though is probably the counter people at your local fast food bistro, who sales skills are limited to asking “Do you want fries with that?” Those who’s advice, who’s console is limited to telling you how to get your drink out of the machine at the end of the line!

Do you criticize those that can’t make a decision or do you act as their agent and sell them on a good choice? Those waitress will question you, explain to you and make a recommendation!

The TV models may not “sell” on camera, but most of those buyers have to buy one of three choices or lose the “surprise prize” this is high pressure sales, not real estate. Cracker-Jacks figured this approach out over 100 years ago! Is your real estate advice no better than Sargent Preston’s? Some of us got our 1" x 1" lot in the Yukon from Quaker and he was our salesmen, unfortunately he forgot to advise us to pay the taxes!

You can’t call yourself a real estate or mortgage professional with out being a salesman! There are a few exceptions the ones that come to mind are the real estate professionals that mow the lawns driving a salesman’s mower!

Consumers hire real estate professionals to make recommendations and sell those recommendations to them!

Do you Castigat Those Quiescence At The Limen? Then you may occasionally get paid. but you're not a professional. 

 

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Bill

William J Archambault Jr

The Real Estate Investment Institute

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Comments(5)

George Souto
George Souto NMLS #65149 FHA, CHFA, VA Mortgages - Middletown, CT
Your Connecticut Mortgage Expert

Bill there you go again, trying to get me to go running for the dictionary, but this time I think I will take your word for it that they are really there :)

Apr 08, 2010 02:26 PM
William J. Archambault, Jr.
The Real Estate Investment Institute - Houston, TX

George,

They're there depending on the dictionary.

What I said was: "Do you Castigat Those Quiescence At The Limen,do you ecumenically di-sport and Obdurately fiduciary?" or "Are you guilty of criticizing those resting stubbornly at the threshold of a decision do you mix diverse elements to cloud over personal recommendations?"  :>)

Bill

Apr 08, 2010 03:11 PM
Not In Real Estate Any Longer
Autaugaville, AL

I do something that I've found very few people do do...

I LISTEN. And if I hear that my clients have some very strong objections, if they're hopping from one foot to the other because they're not sure...who am I to criticize?

Their lives belong to them. While they're living with the decisions they've made I've moved on.

I simply provide them with third party pros and cons to every situation, and if they ask, give them opinions base on my own experience. Ultimately the final decision is up to them.

Apr 09, 2010 04:20 AM
William J. Archambault, Jr.
The Real Estate Investment Institute - Houston, TX

Pam,

Listening is the first step to being a great agent, so your listening comes as no surprise!

Their lives do belong to them, but they want a change that's why they come to a real estate professional.

I couldn't agree more with listing the pros and cons for the client, but I'd add then ask a closing question! Your job is to aid the client not to lead them to the edge of a dessision and abandon them! Your job is not to make the ultimate decision but to stimulate it!

If a client doesn't want the house you haven't failed, that's his decision, find another. If the client fails to make a decision, you've failed.

Bill

Apr 09, 2010 04:54 AM
Not In Real Estate Any Longer
Autaugaville, AL

Hi Bill,

I couldn't agree with you more. I ask my clients after every showing if they want to put in an offer...and then I listen to the why nots, if they don't.

I know that sometimes I am not as "stimulating" as I probably should be to get them to point of making an offer.

That's probably why I'm more a listing agent than a buyer agent. I tend to be more "stimulating" on that side of the transaction.

Apr 09, 2010 05:06 AM