Is Broker Bryant Full of Hot Air?

I think we all just have to be honest... honest about EVERYTHING.  Realize that if it doesn't kill us, it WILL make us stronger.  The ones the truly survive this market and econmic melt down, if you will, will be the ones that make it out ON TOP when the ride is over!

BB, I suspect that most of the AR members I follow to better than average but that is not why I follow them.  In general, they are good mentors.  I believe that I have to hear/read something multiple times from multiple points of view to get a feel if I can use it in my business plan.  Take care. AJ

Great response & a great post.  Keep doin' what you are doin' BB. 

Very interesting, both Aliouruwurytr2ysdc.xz,m cc's blog and your analysis........also your breakdown......its interesting to see how people are doing, and also how transparent they can be  :-)

Bryant,

Thanks for the post. Let's get serious, I want to be the first to sign up for your mentoring program. Working strictly from home with 62 transactions, that's the way to go!

I'm very transparent about my production.  It's almost nonexistent and I plan to keep it that way. 

It only takes about 12 hours of hard work a day to keep my production as low as it is. 

BB,

I think that you gave some very sound advice.  I will say tho I have not read AL's post and will have to do so.

Broker Bryant,

Thanks for linking to my post and thanks for your excellent response.  I wish I would have known you were going to do this.  I would have written a much more coherent response to your comment.  In case you didn't see it, I have pasted it below.  I will put much more thought into my responses to you going forward in case you decide to link back to me again.  By the way, you might be the ugliest woman I have ever seen, so how did you land "The Lovely Wife" (and she is lovely).  You must be more attractive when you dress as a man.

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"I sell single family residential homes in one of the worse markets in the country where values have declined 60% in the last 18 months and it is getting worse."

Broker Bryant - Given this, I would say just by virtue of the fact that you are still in business means you are someone whose advice I would line up to take. 

As Billy Joel says, "Sometimes just surviving is a noble cause".  However, you are doing a heluva lot more than just surviving. You are kicking butt.   

This sort of hits the crux of my post/question.  Now that I know this about you, I can feel like I am actually improving my career when I read your blog.  I always knew you were interesting but I would still feel guilty reading blogs instead of "working" because it felt like goofing off especially if I thought the person I was reading might be someone who had no idea what they were talking about.  Not that you have to prove anything to me, but it just helps to know you have put your own advice to the test and you were successful with it.  I am rambling a bit, I know.

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BB- It sounds like you are a success. You do business the way you want with people you like. Remember only do business with people who make you smile. That is success the rest is just filler.

good reply broker bryant, Al seems straight up in what he does too, i am sure his inquiry was pure in intent

chris the implementer

I agree that we all learn something from each other one way or the other.  You said it all.  "Likability, consistency and knowledge" are the tools to have.  They do not come in one arena without being present in others.

Bryant,

I've reaped a lot of good stuff reading your posts and I knew you were a top blogger who did top business.  Thanks for sharing.

Your loyal fan, Fran

BB

Never underestimate the little guy...Blue Collar Broker's rule!

Broker Bryant - You go!  For us here in Montana! It started out good, but later grew worst.  Especially in my area.  The seller are pulling their listing off the market. The buyer are not buying until they see a change in the finacial crisis. Yes, we are having a awesome Sunday in the snow.

Broker Bryant, that's a whole bunch of transactions!  It's really fun to read about the huge variety of business models here on Active Rain. 

BB, I appreciate your transparency. I think it would be EYE-OPENING for everyone to blog their statistics too. But I don't see that happening. You rock.

BB, it actually never occurred to me to think about the volume that you do- the blogs (and their circumstances) spoke for themselves. You were busy in the worst market (arguably) in the country, and continue to inform those of us in judicial (read: foreclosures take a few years) states. The heads up has, and continues to be, amazing insight. You closed a nice number of houses while the train that's headed this way roared (sorry, TLW) through.

Bryant- You do a great job in Poinciana Florida. Just by virtue that you are even still in business there is an amazing accomplishment. I have never believed that the number of sides an agent does has much to do with if they are a good agent or not.

In our town, there are agents who do not use cell phones, do not return calls, married rich, do not use email, do not market online, do not blog and do not work after 5 p.m. Yet, they sell in a bad year, 3 or 4 homes at 6 million or more per side. They only need one sale to say they had a good year.

So sides is relative. So is what you do to make the money.

I would not assume that someone is not a good agent or is a good agent based on that.

I will never forget the lesson learned: My x and I owned Tae Kwon Do schools for many years. I was a great teacher and coach but not a cordinated expert in the physical sense of the art. I could not kick as high as my students, but I could turn them into national champions. My X hated that about me, and would constantly put me down for my clutzinness. One day the Grandmaster came to visit our school and overheard my x telling me that my side kick looked like a dog pissing over a fire hydrant. Grandmaster Lee told me that I had built a profitable business with great sales skills that my X did not possess and that I had the personality of a First Lady who showed care and compassion towards our students thereby achieving one of the highest retention rates in the country.

I learned that day that there is such a thing as someone being able to teach yet not be able to always do what they teach. Katerina