Car fever. I have to admit, I don't get it like some folks do. I am one of those people that gets a good car and drives it for 150,000ish miles and then I start thinking about a new one.
When I was a new agent I thought I needed to get a big fancy new car so people would think I was a smart REALTOR(R), but we all know that is not the case. You can't tell new agents, I tried when the market was humming along. Now all of those fancy leased cars have been turned back in. We all have to learn. Now I say I would just assume to pull up in a chevy dragging the tail pipe and smoke everywhere, think Uncle Buck . . . Not really, but I like to imagine people's faces. LOL.
I have a nice car that I take good care of to get my money out of it. When I get a new car I pay for it as fast as possible and want to be done with the payment, I hate a car payment.
My current car is a nice import. It was a couple of years old and a friend took me to a real car auction and picked the car for me. I told him exactly what I wanted, the miles, color and he picked it up for me at a substantial savings. The car was still under warranty. It was a happy deal.
The other day I was noticing the agent's cars in our parking lot. There are some very nice cars, but I have to say the biggest producers buy good cars and keep their cars for a long time. Nothing out of this world. We have some pretty heavy hitters in our office too.
I think the days of equating the car to the agent's capabilities is long over. I think the over the top luxury cars can be off putting to folks these days. It screams, yeah I do make too much money and hope like hell I can keep paying for this thing.
The confident, self assured, top producing agent knows his business well enough to not have to over compensate with an "in your face import". This agent is someone who makes sound financial decsisions, someone you should feel comfortable with helping you with your sound decisions.
A fancy car doesn't equal a fancy agent anymore, maybe it never did?
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