Many of us have had to deal with language and translation issues due to our pending real estate transactions being “handled” overseas. Common sense was not translated or opted for in the negotiations with these outsourced files.
I am a real estate broker in Boise, Idaho with 19 years of experience however I am always surprised at the "new ways" of how other people in the transaction can insult my intelligence via total lack of understanding by someone else.
I have had to explain that James Paulson is the same Realtor as Jim Paulson. We are not two different people. I must admit I wouldn’t know the nicknames of the common names of Pakistani or Indian citizens though either.
I just saw a post on Facebook stating an agent had to write an addendum explaining that the “W.” in the street name stood for “West”. I told her to start on the next addendum explaining why the “period” was no longer necessary after the word “West” was spelled out.
Maybe if we started charging an “Outsourced Fee”, the companies that use this practice would end up paying equal or greater than doing it domestically (or better yet locally) and these types of time and resource wasting procedures would come to a stop.
I have heard of some major corporations starting to pull their call centers back to the United States due to customer complaints and the negative PR associated with hiring people oversees when so many of our own are unemployed. Every outsourced position means one less wage being taxed in our country which takes money away from improving our roads, our schools, our law enforcement, etc. I know many of these jobs aren't very high paying jobs, but I am pretty sure that they pay more than unemployment benefits.
Let's work on bringing our industry back into our control and simultaneously bring our jobs back to this country so we have less short sales and foreclosures!
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