Outside of your WHY in Real Estate Is, Your WHAT for me is the most important question to be answered. I believe if more real estate agents would commit their “WHAT” to writing, the general public would have higher confidence in working with real estate agents.
Now you may be asking yourself, what is the WHAT in real estate. Simply speaking, your WHAT is your Values, your moral code, your ethics, call it what you will. Your behaviors are a direct results of your values.
For professional real estate agents who are also REALTORS®, there exists a Code of Ethics. In the first article, three words appear for me that sum up how I behave with clients. Those three words are "protect and promote." However, my interactions go beyond clients to customers to vendors to community individuals to friends and family.
Additionally, since I live and work in the high desert of NW AZ, Mohave County, I am consistently aware of the environment from water availability or lack thereof to open range to wild animals as well as plant life. Being aware of one’s environment and attempting to respect it I believe is also a value.
Constitutional property rights are also a big concern. From my education and knowing the US Constitution, the Federal government does not have any constitutional legal authority to own any land outside of DC, forts and harbors.
From being now more aware of these other concerns, and my own numerous rotations around the sun, I have once again updated my values statement from previous ones by adding in the environment (earth’s natural resources) along with Constitutional property rights.
VALUES STATEMENT
With a moral compass strengthened by consistent GRIT and GRATITUDE, I will undertake to PROTECT and PROMOTE my clients by going the extra mile while being appreciative and respectful of my community here in Mohave County, AZ including all stakeholders (local to national) as well as constitutional property rights and the earth’s natural resources. Through continuing education, I will strive to be THE professional TRAILBLAZER who is informed and knowledgeable specific to real estate from local to national and more importantly to apply that knowledge to the benefit of all.
If you have not committed your WHAT that being your “VALUES STATEMENT” to writing, maybe now is the time to secure absolute clarity so your behaviors can further raise the professionalism of this often maligned industry.
This is the second in a four part series.
Your What in Real Estate Is…? (Current blog posting)
Your WHERE in Real Estate Is…?
Your How in Real Estate Is…?
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