{"id":10199,"date":"2009-10-31T16:43:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T23:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10199"},"modified":"2009-10-31T16:48:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T23:48:36","slug":"business-as-politics-no-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10199\/business-as-politics-no-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Business as Politics? No way."},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know where I am on the political spectrum.\u00a0 I don’t think it’s particularly important.\u00a0 But I know that if I took Robert Worthington’s<\/a> approach to my business, I would be out of a job.\u00a0 People come to me with problems.\u00a0 I try to help them resolve their problems within the set of rules.\u00a0 They pay me.\u00a0 End of story.<\/p>\n

What I think about those rules when I lay my head down at night is quite distinct from how I earn a living.<\/p>\n

Whether you’re a lawyer or a real estate agent, a lender or a widget maker, you add value to the world by solving other people’s problems: keeping them out of jail, finding them a home, helping them finance a purchase, or selling them some widgets.<\/p>\n

How you conduct your business – how you treat people and honor your commitments – matters.<\/p>\n

What you think about whether they take a tax credit, or borrowed from 2003-2006 at Fed subsidized mortgage rates, or have benefited for decades from the mortgage interest rate deduction does not matter.<\/p>\n

And if you’re so concerned about an $8,000 tax credit that you’d turn away customers, I think, quite frankly, your priorities are confused.\u00a0 There are some deep injustices in the world, and in this country.\u00a0 An $8,000 giveaway, however stupid or smart a policy that may be, is not one of them.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know where I am on the political spectrum.\u00a0 I don’t think it’s particularly important.\u00a0 But I know that if I took Robert Worthington’s approach to my business, I would be out of a job.\u00a0 People come to me with problems.\u00a0 I try to help them resolve their problems within the set of rules.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-general","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2106,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2106\/phoenix-has-its-problems-but-theyre-small-compared-to-those-in-other-cities\/","url_meta":{"origin":10199,"position":0},"title":"Phoenix has it’s problems, but they’re small compared to those in other cities","author":"Greg Swann","date":"October 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my column this week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link). 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