biz ops: I guess I shouldn't, but I feel depressed about our industry!!
- 07/26/09 03:48 PM
Sometimes I feel tainted by my expert witness work, where I see agents that are involved in lawsuits. So, often they are untrained and just not ready to do the heavy lifted that is needed in today's real estate. This is especially evident when agents get outside their residential home sale area. Too often they run across a client that wants to buy a business, an office building, raw land, and income property and the list goes on. Instead of being honest and telling their client, that they are not specialists in that area, they dive in the pool and usually … (5 comments)
biz ops: AGENT BEWARE!!! When selling a business isn't good business
- 04/30/09 04:07 PM
If you have read my blog, you know that I do expert testimony in real estate litigation cases. I just got a new one which I wanted to share with you. It seems an agent sold this lady a deli. She had no experience in the food business but wanted to try her hand at running her own business. She paid $90,000 cash. Here are a few of the things that the agents (double ended) did to her: Didn't show her comps or why it was worth the money didn't help buyer to analyze income and expenses Didn't advise to get … (2 comments)
Guy Berry is a frequent expert witness in real estate litigation and an accomplished trainer in real estate law and contracts. In addition he has been licensed for 30 years as an agent and managed large offices, including Coldwell Banker and Century 21.
Sometimes I feel tainted by my expert witness work, where I see agents that are involved in lawsuits. So, often they are untrained and just not ready to do the heavy lifted that is needed in today's real estate. This is especially evident when agents get outside their residential home sale area. Too often they run across a client that wants to buy a business, an office building, raw land, and income property and the list goes on.
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