The other day, I posted a blog in which I mused how the NAR and the various member associations seem to have no particular competency requirements of members and no way to test their ability. (Yesterday's Blog) Perhaps I am wrong, but it appears to me that once you have satisfied the licensing requirements of your state, and you vow to the local Association of Realtors to follow the Realtor ethics, all you need is your check book. It's an odd approach, really, since almost every other license requires actual proof of competency. You can't say you're an electrician without the experience (6 comments)
Someday, I'd like to hold an employer-required class for real estate service company employees to reveal to them a number of things that they've either never been taught or never bothered to consider.
One of those things I would like to drive home, and then drive home again, is that the real estate agents are their clients, it's not the agents' clients. Here's why.
In the main, a huge percentage of the business title companies and their escrow officers, mortgage companies and their individual loan officers, home inspectors, and home warranty companies, come to them on the recommendation of real estate agents. It's (3 comments)
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