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Why "Go Postal" When We Can "Go Realtor?"

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The disgruntled postal worker is not generally a people person. However, as real estate agents, we most certainly do like people, or at least that's the idea (although I've begun to question this assumption of late). That said, I've decided we need to come up with our own industry standards of "going postal." Of course, this would never be targeted at our clients, but rather, to those pesky REO agents who won't acknowledge our existence. If you didn't read my earlier post" "Is There an REO God," do that now.

The idea is that we all contribute clever but cruel actions and ideas that might be implemented (or threatened, thereto) against those agents that have left their ethics in their lockboxes and their brains in their BPO's. Heck, we could even have it laminated and pass it out at the next REBarCamp---unless there's an "asset managers association" that I don't know about. Think of the implications: "You best return my calls or I'll go Realtor on yer ass."

So here's a start......

 

THINGS I WILL DO TO UNRESPONSIVE REO AGENTS

  • Superglue NAR's Code of Ethics to every window of your automoblie, home and office.
  • Post "Squatters Welcome" signs in front of each of your REO listings---will include Continental breakfast
  • Join your firm and follow you around like a groupie, begging for a lock of your hair.

Well there's a start Active Rainers--- anyone want to add to the list?

 

All in good fun, of course ;-)

 

Tamara

 

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Real Estate - Fallon, MT

Kind of in the spirit of Tee'd Off Tuesday...

Jun 24, 2009 02:10 AM
Matt Stigliano
Kimberly Howell Properties (210) 646-HOME - San Antonio, TX

Tamara - I've said it before and I'll say it again.  This is where the Code Of Ethics fails.  It's a shield people can use to hide behind when they do shoddy work.  Of course, I understand that the idea of not talking smack about other agents exists for a reason (to protect the slimeballs on this planet from whispering bad things about you in your client's ears), but when there is an outright failure to take care of a client, the client should know about it.  Perhaps I should form a police-like real estate agent organization - our goal to informa the consumer that they're getting to robbed (and in this case, the consumer is the bank).  We won't be Realtors® so NAR's Code Of Ethics won't apply (but we will have our own code).  We won't be licensed agents, so there will be no thought of us doing it just to obtain business or any conflict of agent-client relationships.  We'll just be out there on the streets, doing it for the good of the industry.  Kind of a Guardian Angels of real estate.  Perhaps it can be a place for retired agents to spend their retirement and give back to the industry.

 

Jun 24, 2009 02:33 AM