Looking For an Agent Familiar With Investors . . . In Your Area
Another call came in to the office with the caller "looking for an agent familiar with investors . . . "
Quickly adding, ". . . in your area."
Oh geez, here we go.
I couldn't get a word in edgewise after I answered the phone with, "Buyers Agent Portland, good morning." And that's because the caller was so full of . . .
energy?
I'll call it energy, since I'm in polite company.
With a break in her stride, probably due to the fact that run-on sentences can only run-on for so long, she came up for air. And that's when I asked her:
How many investments have you purchased?
She stammered which was interesting, going from Chatty Cathy to Dumb Dora all in under a minute. She said she didn't understand the question.
I repeated it for her, and added two words: "so far?" As in: How many investments have you purchased . . . so far?'
Because she sounded so savvy, I just knew she had several investment properties all over the globe. I could just tell she was a savvy investor with a wad of homes under her investing belt. {rolling eyes}
She stammered again and replied, "How many investments have I purchased . . . you mean . . . in Oregone?"
Oregone isn't a state.
But that's how she pronounced it phonetically. And, answering a question with a question isn't helpful.
These calls come from people who have attended a "how to invest in real estate" seminar and walked out with the "secret" of the all powerful Holy Grail: the instruction material.
For a cool $139.99 on their credit card, they call my office all bright-eyed and busy tailed, having just disembarked from the turnip truck.
Yup . . . I'm so lucky! These people are the next Trumps.
I can tell a real estate investor when I hear one. I can tell a novice, who has the "how to invest in real estate with no money down" tattooed on their backside.
When I represent serious, sound and solid investors -- I can help.
When calls come in from dreamers who think they can, actually, purchase with no money down -- I can't.
They don't let me explain how the real estate seminar was conducted to extract money from their back pocket and how the real estate guru bilked them out of their hard earned.
I love to debunk that myth . . .
But, they'll blame real estate agents for being short-sighted and not seeing just how successful they're going to be.
Afterall, they attended the 'How to Get Rich Quick in Real Estate Investing With No Money Down Real PROfit$ Finding the Right Sellers Who Are Flexible' half-day event at the Double Pepper Tree Inn . . . and paid $139.99 for the how-to guide -- I did not.
P.T. Barnum was right, or was he!?!
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