Your peers make the call, form a posse to hunt you down and work on you to interview, run for president of your statewide REALTOR group.
Maybe it was not something you could ever consider when your family was young, but there comes a point where service, giving back and making a difference to guide your state wise REALTOR group of real estate professionals is in the wind, plans, future.
But as you warm up to the idea and consider what you could bring to the position, some of your friends, colleagues in the REALTOR group say "you don't want to be part of that group, one of them".
And you scratch your head because you look down and notice the person wearing, sporting the identical blue and gold "R" pin.
It should be black and white, no intrigue, spin, disharmony or discord right?
And you have to wonder if it's like a case of friendly fire, lack of loyalty to a group you support, have been a member of for decades.
And you ask "one of them"? Explain because you and I are "them".
Evidently, "Johnny or Jane wants to make a difference" believes like politicians with noble sincere, naive intent, that all changes once you gain entrance to Emerald City... I mean get passed a duplicate key to office of the statewide REALTOR group like your CEO, secretaries of the group carry. And when probed, plodded further, even from members of the executive, officer level, past and current, a few share they started to be mouth pieces for NAR.
Is that bad I thought?
It is if you don't have faith in your leadership on any level. Or if some group is out of touch with an ever changing real estate industry.Why does being a real estate agent, broker, card carrying, dues cuurent REALTOR out serving your own unique set of zip codes have to change, get lost if you work your way up through the "chairs" as they say in the local service club like Rotary, Elks, Masons, Oddfellows or you pick the group?
Is it a distrust and off hand comment that everyone assumes, just gives lip service to in remarks as a given? Of do you really think the country, your statewide, your national REALTORS group is out of touch? Or has agendas, ideas, direction different than you?
With a country as large as the US, Canada, it is easy to have a few of us that don't carry the exact same set of opinions.
We don't all list, market, sell in Chicago, East Overshoe, Vegas, Wall Walla Washington, Sturgis or you pick the burg, ville.
Because the way the local real estate market rolls is so much different due to everything from price levels, local weather, climate and proximity to population centers or not. Where you come in on the FSSR property listing sales chart has a bearing on the heat in the kitchen where you practice the real estate dog and pony too.So, would you run for president of your local or state or national REALTOR group and why, why not? And if you served in the past on one of these levels of real estate boards, what was the experience, what did you bring to the position that was successful? The out of touch label on your REALTOR board could be that the individual member who has been out of the loop is not aware of the behind the scenes, maybe because of poor communications of the process. Or lack of interest, involvement of the individual wearing the dark blue, shiny gold pin with the "R" on it. "R", the hardest working, little red hen of the alphabet group by far. Maine, do you think listing and selling real estate is any different here than somewhere else? You bet it is. (Changing cameras, swiveling) and now a word from our sponsor who asks the question why, why do you list, market, sell real estate?
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