Special offer

Beyond The Box / Refusing To Be Boxed In

Reblogger
Services for Real Estate Pros with The Real Estate Investment Institute

It's true!

I was there or waiting at home.

Brenda

Original content by William J. Archambault, Jr. 1retiredsage

Beyond The Box / Refusing To Be Boxed In. In my last post, Personal REALTOR® Anecdotes , I was searching for good REALTOR® stories. I was reacting to another bad story I'd seen, not knowing where I was going when I sat down at my computer. My personal anecdote was of a sale in my early days, some thing I was proud of and except for Brenda and the Buyers no one knew.

Thinking about that story I realized that it occurred a year before I was taught how to sell a 2% return. See Networking Allows The Impossible .

It occurred at a time when I was so naive that I didn't know that a seller couldn't make an offer to a buyer, first. So stupid that I didn't know it couldn't be done, because no one else was doing it. So foolish that I didn't know that many if not most real estate people don't consider some thing legal simply because it's not illegal.

The fact is all I knew at that point was lending and that in my new career as a real estate agent's main purpose was to solve clients real estate problems.

A few months later I joined Chapter # 1 of The Farm and Land Institute, NAR. FLI taught me very quickly that their purpose was just what I'd stumbled into! To solve the people problem! FLI went on teaching that without a lot of liquid assets the best way to solve one problem was to combine two. One person's problem is often another's opportunity!

These old men and women, most of whom were older than my parents, many old enough to be my Grandparents, weren't concerned with the perfect deal, like the CCIM's, not a great deal like the local board, but rather with a good-doable deal! They looked for solutions to the people problems. To them a great deal was the best doable deal that left every one better off than before!

We were having almost as many problems in 1974 as we are today. Making "the perfect deal" a figment of the CCIM's imagination, holding out for "great deals" left the local board floundering while these FLI types were going from closing to closing. Their clients both buyers and sellers loved them.

Admittedly, most FLI properties were investments not SFR. So what the ideas worked!

So many of us are boxed in not by real estate laws. Not by board rules. Not by the clients. We're boxed-in by our own perception of a need to conform! A need to do things like every one else! A need to follow rules imposed by powerless people. There may be little profit, little client service in the box, but there is communal sympathy and a comfort zone inside the box!

A straight jacket is not a fashion statement!

You sell a 2% return by finding some one making only 1% and doubling his return!

It's time to stand on your soap box not hide in it!

Bill

William J Archambault Jr

The Real Estate Investment Institute

wja@reii.org  832-259-7078 or 702-516-1569

     http://www.reii.org  Back Cover One House At A Time http:www//reii.org http://www.flippingforfunandprofit.info/ http://www.billarchambault.com   

From my past: GRI 1975, FLI 1974, Catalyst from a client 1974 an agent that makes things happen, REII, The Real Estate Investment Institute 1995.

http://www.reii.org

©William J Archambault Jr ©The Real Estate Investment Institute ©REII

Posted by

Brenda

Brenda C Archambault

Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Incline Village, Boulder City, Las Vegas, Houston

       http://www.billarchambault.com

Comments (0)