representation: How Can a Client Be Certain He Will Be Properly Represented by His Agent? - 11/03/15 11:12 AM

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)

representation: "It's the Agent Who Is Your Client, Dummy!" - 07/01/15 11:37 PM
 
 
 
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)

representation: Is this REALLY about Two Agents Trying to Upstage Each Other? - 06/28/15 07:56 AM

I often wonder how much of the negotiating jazz that another agent is giving me has even been discussed with their client.
 
Where do they learn that behavior?  Is it from those TV reality shows where the agents are dancing with zillion dollar apartment listings in Manhattan?
 
Well if it is, that stuff is invented for the drama of the show. 
 
Our job is to facilitate what our clients want to happen.  That's it.  It ain't anything else.
 
It's been awhile, but in the past I have refused to work with an agent who is mimicking the TV agents with me. I'm not going … (6 comments)

 
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