LOOKS LIKE THE REAL ESTATE BUSINESS IS TOUGH FOR EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE LEAD COMPANIES. These on line lead generating entities junk up my mail box, the search engines, the directories, our servers and our lives. They pallute the search engines as badly as a diesel engine on the highway pallutes the air we breath behind it.
I've gotten the below in my "Junk" e-mail box about 25 times. Of course, this isn't the only one, just the most annoying today. Junk mail has increased a bit over the past week. This junk adds a tremendous cost for all of us using the Internet to advertise our services to consumers. Funny thing about the lead generating companies, they too, advertise our services. They just don't provide any services to the consumer.
All I want them to do is "Get out of my way" and let the consumer find the web site of a licensed real estate 
agent or broker where the consumer won't be sold to agents like so much meat.
If every agent and broker in the country would stop falling for these offers of good buyer and seller leads today, they would all dry up and go away and we'd all move directly UP on the search engine results pages. Imagine what the Internet would be like if a consumer searching for "real estate anywhere" would see actual licensed real estate agents and brokers at the top of SERP and not 3 or 4 lead generation companies that grab the consumer inquiries with promise of great service when they are really simply selling the consumer to agents and brokers who will pay their price for the consumer lead. These companies are the epitome of "no added value".
I saw a post on ActiveRain this a.m. from a lead generation company seeking mortgage leads to sell to mortgage loan folks. I'm sure this isn't a first.
- The lead generation companies cannot help a consumer find a home.
- The lead generation companies cannot help a consumer buy a home.
- The lead generation companies cannot help a consumer sell a home.
- The lead generation companies cannot make mortgage loans.
- The lead generation companies can only suck the consumer in and sell them to the
- agent, broker, loan officer who will pay the price.
Work ActiveRain and generate your own buyer, seller, borrower contacts. At least, if the consumer selects you, you'll be able to deliver the service they need and not just sell them to the genuine real estate service providers.
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