What IF...I were the New Presidential Housing Czar?

  What IF...I were the New Presidential Housing Czar?

  Take this scenario...all the homes for sale in my city are foreclosures.  All the agents became Federal Real Estate Agents under my employ by appointment of the President of the United States.  My job is to Dispose of all the homes in the best manner, at the highest price possible in the shortest period of time.

  My first day on the new job, I searched the MLS and found hundreds of homes by new and seasoned agents as well as broker owners of these companies that had the following problems:

(1) No picture in the MLS at all after 14 to 45 days.
(2) Blurry pictures that you can't even make out what the house looks like.
(3) Great homes in high priced areas with ONE STINKIN picture of the outside.
(4) Nice looking homes that have 5 pictures of the OUTSIDE ONLY.  Not one single inside shot.
(5) Virtual Tours that are nothing more than a rotation of the same 7 pictures already posted.
(6) Virtually no description about the home.  A 200 character description field using up 50 characters.
(7) Incomplete information on the MLS like whether or not there is zoned HVAC for a 3,500 square foot 2 story house...whether or not there is telephone service in a rural area.
(8) A large number of agents that have NO EMAIL address to communicate with.
(9) Get this...a home that the "City" field says "UNKNOWN".  Give me a break...you don't even know the city and you enter 999-Unknown?
(10) REO or Foreclosure field and the field says "Unknown".  Again, is real estate sales too much a "burden" for you?
(11)  I pulled up "Contemporary" homes in a large area....found 77 and looked at each one....only about 6 were Contemporary.  Oh...I get it now...IF it has a "vaulted ceiling", that makes it contemporary....Frank Lloyd Wright is turning in his grave.
(12) The "Original" listing price starts off at $124,000 and the "Current Price" is now $152,000.  Are we starting our day without a Starbucks stop?
(13) The Showing Instructions say "VACANT" and "APPOINTMENT ONLY".  Oh...do we not want to disturb the mice?  Is this a "computer system error"?
(14) One listing field for the number of square feet in lot said "CONDO".  Is my IQ just to low to understand that?
(15) The "Locator Maps":  Those are the maps you click on to show the location of the house from the MLS listing in our area which the agent is suppose to "verify" by going there...confirming it and zooming in or out if necessary ... shows on most listings 2 streets neither of which I've ever heard of and rather than zooming out to show where in the hell in the city we're talking about.  Again...let's not spend too much time letting somebody know where this place is.

I could go on, but WHAT DID I DO AS THE NEW PRESIDENTIAL HOUSE CZAR FOR MY TOWN ON THE FIRST DAY OF WORK?

Well, I called in 200 of about 300 real estate agents and I FIRED EVERYONE OF THEM.  They are now out of a job.  They might now have to ask if you want to Supersize the Fries with that order.

You would think that in the tough economic times we're in and the housing market being a key element of the erosion of our national economy that the Cream of the Crop would be left in this business and you'd see some top notch creative, efficient go-getter agents promoting the sale of their home for their client.  But I believe what has happened is that all the hard working well-intended agents have left the business and left us with the "Don't Bother Me" agents that have a "Financially Influential Spouse" that gives them Referrals so it doesn't really matter if you do a good job or not...it's just whether or not you "know somebody".  Some day, that may change.