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Win - Win

By
Real Estate Agent with Pine Knoll Shores Realty 252-422-9000 NC 166249

 

 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.

 

Comments (7)

Chris & Karen Highland
eXp Realty - Frederick, MD
Integrity, Experience, Enthusiasm!

Marian, Good thoughts.  I have recently had an offer on a listing from one of those adversarial agents...from the first moment of the first showing.  I do not understand it!  What is the point? I guess people think they need to be 'scrappers' at every turn.  It's exausting, to say the least.

Feb 04, 2009 10:55 AM
Treva Fox-Christy
INTEGRITY REAL ESTATE - Farmington, NM

Right and sooo non productive. Anyone think of karma? It all adds up.

Feb 04, 2009 10:59 AM
Carol Swain
Keller Williams Real Estate - Langhorne, PA
Realtor, -www.swainsells.com- Bucks County, Pa

Win - win is right!  I don't understand these Realtor's either who play hard ball.  We are all in this together with a common goal.  We all want satisfied customers who will refer us.

Feb 04, 2009 11:40 AM
Lee & Carol Barbour, REALTORS
Murphy and Hayesville, NC; Hiawassee, Blairsville, Blue Ridge GA - Murphy, NC
Mountain Living Team in Murphy NC and North GA

Hi Marian. Thanks for the great post. When we're co-broking we should be working together for the interest of our clients. Certainly you can well represent your client, but still do it with integrity.

 

Feb 04, 2009 10:50 PM
Lara O'Keefe
North Texas Home Finders - McKinney, TX

Marian, you sound like someone I would really enjoy doing business with.

Feb 05, 2009 09:46 AM
Kathryn Gorham
Green Key Realty - Emerald Isle, NC
Emerald Isle NC Crystal Coast

Marian, Well said. I especially liked that hard times can bring out the best in us. Just take that extra moment to reflect on what we really want as an outcome can truly bring us to a level we are proud to claim.

Feb 07, 2009 02:09 AM
Cynthia Tilghman, Realtor® Onslow County NC Home Specialist
Kingsbridge Realty, Inc - Hubert, NC

Marian,
Very well said!  A team effort it is for sure and I like being on a winning team, don't you?

Feb 12, 2009 04:32 AM