"IF IT'S ACTIVE ON THE MLS, THEN IT'S...

Some agents work on different ethics!

There are a couple of agents in my area that turn their phones off at 5pm and never answer on Saturday or Sunday.  If you want to show one of their listings over the weekend and would like to make sure they're still available, too bad!  I feel like they're doing their sellers an injustice because you can't reach them during a critical time of the week, just to ask a question.  Prima Donna's.....

There are select agents getting the REO accounts or have tons of listings and don't bother hiring the admin staff to support the business. It actually shows their very bad business acumen. Just imagine the time saved answering all those phone calls or emails if you would have hired an admin that maintains your MLS? They are unprofessional and unwise and unfortunately their lack of business sense costs us all wasted time chasing down status updates on every listing we pull up. It's a mess. It takes me one to two days to leave messages for these agents to get an accurate status update on the listing and to get ACCESS to the property. Yeah, these agents who can't hire admin, they don't buy lockboxes either, that work with our key. So they say call for code.....but they don't respond.....it's a shame really.

Robert, I'm with you. Some agents obviously do not REALLY want to fully cooperate with the MLS. They want to guarantee the client that they will get the MLS. But only for their own advantage then they go about thrwarting the efforts of others...nasty.

Perhaps we should not be shy about calling them out on it.