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Naughty or nice agents- what's an elf to do?

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Real Estate Agent with Divine Realty 757788

If it had been a better year,  I would call up 1800 SUGARPLUMS and order a boatload of goodies, guaranteed for Christmas delivery to those cool agents that make even the rough things so much easier.  And then I would log on to www dot COAL4THEM to arrange for a festive holiday assortment of  anthracite, bituminous, subbituminous, and lignite for those OTHER agents... Thats' the thing about our industry. It's a little ole hightech sandbox, isn't it? You got the sweet kids and the meanies. Or is it an animal farm with the fluffy bunnies, the yappie ankle biters , the purebred wimperwhiners, and the rabid pitbulls straining against their chains?  So what to do, when one of "THOSE" agents bites a big old ragged chunk out of your  unsuspecting backside?   Happened the other day in fact.  The police tracked down one of my "ahem" esteemed colleagues ripping up my yard sign from our client's property...so, let's see the options...press charges? (My client wanted to)...report  to the board?...scream bloody moidah to their broker?? ...or roll eyes heavenward, slap forehead, heave a sigh, and make a note to self to keep an eye on THAT one.  Some notable thinker I heard quoted: "There is wisdom in knowing what to overlook." I suppose we could all make a full time cottage industry out of nursing our grievances big and small, and licking our wounds.  But then, oh yeah, there is that pesky business of needing to serve our clients, and perhaps even make a living.  Nixon, we know, had his enemies list for the people who had crossed him.   I frankly would NEED a list if I were keeping track, cuz I don't have a good enough memory - I have to really wrack my tired brain: "Who WAS that wretched little snake in the grass that roasted me in a flaming Hades  10 years ago?...Penelope?  no...Priscilla?  no...  Dang.  So I guess I gotta just plow forward and focus on the work.  Moreover, in the magnanimous spirit of Christmas, Chanukah, and all people's seasons of good will, I promise to at least TRY try to forgive (as I seem to pretty much have the forgetting part down), and to move on for the sake of my clients, and my own peace of mind, and oh yeah, for the greater good of humankind.  Care to join me?

Cindy Edwards
RE/MAX Checkmate - Johnson City, TN
CRS, GRI, PMN - Northeast Tennessee 423-677-6677

This is really funny.  I would report him to the board of Realtors.  That is so wrong!

Dec 18, 2011 01:44 PM
Joel Matson
Divine Realty - New Haven, CT

Well yes, funny in retrospect. Not so much at the time.  :)  Being chased by killer bees is fun to share during show and tell, if you happen to live through it!

Dec 18, 2011 02:00 PM