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FREE Subway Seminars Held Daily:  Topic is Always Teamwork

This morning I read Alan May's post on adversarial real estate transactions and shortly after I wrote Oh You Mean You Want Me to Sell the Listing Too?  Afterward I went to lunch at Subway.

There were 2 servers working behind the counter preparing sandwiches and approximately 6 people in line at the time. While I was watching my server prepare my sandwich, the toaster oven timer sounded, and seemingly without so much as a thought, he turned quickly to his right to reach back and open the oven and swung back around to finish my sandwich. 

Almost simultaneously, the other server turned to her left and reached in and grabbed the toasted sandwich.  As soon as she had it out of the oven, again seemingly without thinking about it, my server swung back around and closed the oven as the other server started preparing the toasted sandwich.  My server then slid my sandwich down to the other server to prepare. 

I go there often and witnessing this is nothing new, but today I thought to myself:  I wish all real estate agents practiced this kind of teamwork.

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Donna Foerster
HomeSmart Realty Group - Parker, CO
Metro Denver Real Estate Assistant

Clever analogy Ms. Charita!  Too bad not every deal can work like that.  It should, but most times it doesn't.

Apr 26, 2011 06:41 AM
Charita Cadenhead
eXp Realty - Birmingham, AL
Serving Jefferson and Shelby Counties (Alabama)

Donna even thought we work opposite sides of the transaction, we are still a part of the transaction team.  Sometimes I feel more like a boxer trying to escape a punch rather than a real estate agent trying to come to reach an agreement.

Apr 26, 2011 06:47 AM
Laura Giannotta
Keller Williams Realty - Atlantic Shore - Little Egg Harbor, NJ
Your Realtor Down the Shore!

I read Alan's blog too...It never ceases to amaze me that agents on the other side of the table feel that they represent their clients better if they're confrontational and somethimes even mean.

Apr 26, 2011 08:23 AM
Charita Cadenhead
eXp Realty - Birmingham, AL
Serving Jefferson and Shelby Counties (Alabama)

Laura confrontation is the opposite behavior of how to prove one's competence.

Apr 26, 2011 08:26 AM