My previous ActiveRain blog post was about a competitor in my market that treats their agents as profit centers and creates policy that is detrimental to both agent and client and only positive for the company.  Unfortunately, I could post like that all day long because I hear so many bad management policies in our industry.

But...since I am generally a positive person, I feel the need to comment on the good and not just the bad.

Recently read an an article in a Chicago newspaper about one of our local companies opening a coffee shop/real estate office/wireless internet hangout place.  Now there's a fabulous win-win forward thinking idea!  Oftentimes a buyer in the early stages of looking may have questions and want some assistance but would be reluctant to contact an agent directly.  And lets face it, sometimes agents just don't have the time to help buyers in they way they deserve when they are in the very early stages of looking.

So have a place where they can go hangout, search listings, have a cup of coffee and ask questions to the licensed real estate agent who is running the shop.

Great idea!  Love seeing that type of innovative thinking in our business.

(Only negative I can think of is that I didn't think of it first.)