Hello all,

It has been a while since I posted.  Business is going great.  But I have been seeing a trend that I believe is a direct result of so many agents not having enough business to rely on real estate full-time as their only source of income.  The result is that the agent will often have a full-time job that they work 9-5 and then they practice real estate on top of it.  In the past 3 months I have closed deals where the agents on the other side were a bookkeeper, a nanny, and one who worked for the state.  The problem is that in each of these cases, and all of the others I have found in my real estate career,  the agents attentions are inherently divided.  In every case that i have worked across the table from an agent with another job, I have found that I almost always end up looking out for their clients more than they do.  It takes a full-time commitment - anything less and you'd be short changed.  A full-time agent is able to "work the market" for you, keeping up-to-date with new listings and conditions as they impact the market.  Besides even if they are giving you an honest effort it most likely could mean that their employer is the one getting short changed.  I don't know, but I have always said that if a person is willing to short change someone else in my behalf, it should come as no surprise that they would be willing to short change me for someone else, especially when that someone is them.  So folks please look at this for what it is - a warning.  More than that though, do you really want someone helping you make decisions in any market place when they can't even make those decisions for themselves in such a way that makes them successful?  Can they guarantee your success?  I doubt it.  Any way those are my thoughts.  What are yours?

Thanks again, your real estate consultant for life,

Nicholas S. Hoddinott

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