Recently I received an unsolicited e-mail (spam) from someone named Sally Larabee about a very interesting subject. She claimed that Realtors all over the nation will be getting sued for calling themselves experts in short sales, when in fact they haven’t completed not one. It went on to list how this would take place and the only way to avoid it is to take their course (probably at a hefty price). It also states that if you really want to call yourself an expert you need to take their course and prepare yourself. I thought to myself now wait one minute you just said if I don’t do a bunch of short sales and gain “experience” that I can’t call myself an expert, now you tell me if I take your course you can call yourself an expert. Which one is it? Expertise is not measured by how many times you perform a task, that’s called experience.
Although the argument is very compelling, it’s fairly easy to protect ones self with the proper disclosures without taking another short sale course. If you are doing short sales and haven’t had an attorney write a disclosure for you, shame on you. Get it done today and have all parties sign it.
Finally what I found interesting is that when I surfed the Real Estate Radio Blog, low and behold I found the exact same article written by Barry Cunningham, I thought the e-mail had Barry’s tone. I also wrote a post to that blog and somehow it was never published. I just wanted to let Barry know that his stuff had been plagiarized-or vice versa.
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