Attention REALTORS! We're in this together. I have a listing. You have a buyer. My job is to sell the listing for as good a deal as I can get for my seller. your job is to get the dream house for your buyer at the best deal possible. Aren't we both trying to achieve the same goal? Can't we best serve our respective clients by working together to come to the closing table with good feelings on all sides?
Some REALTORS seem to think that the best way to 'stay close' to their buyers or sellers is to create an adversarial situation. The other agent is the bad guy and his/her client a pawn. Not true and not the way honest ethical folk treat each other. Didn't we all subscribe to the Golden Rule?
Hard times can bring out the worst in people. It can also bring out the best. I challenge each of you to stop and think before you blame and criticize. Look out for your client, but not with a kill or be kill attitude. I promise to treat you fair and kind and I hope you will treat me the same way.
PS: Today after working for weeks as the listing agent negotiating with a buyer's agent on behalf of her client, we came to an agreement! We have a deal. Congratulations Carol. You've acted on behalf of your client in a fair, reasonable and ethical manner. I look forward to sitting across the closing table from you in 45 days... and we'll all feel good about the deal.
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