I sat down today fully intending to log my own comments on the ongoing dual agency debate. Yawn… I will save it for another time.<\/p>\n
Somewhere along the way in my thought process (brought to you by Tylenol), I drifted to the big news this weekend: Britney Spears is apparently channeling Jeff Brown. The big news is not that she has joined the follicly challenged-by- choice ranks of our own Bawld Guy or even that she is an emotional train wreck, but that she seems to be self-destructing. Here is someone with some talent (I will table the “how much” argument) and a truckload of marketability. I have to wonder, then, how she got to this point. Was it too much to soon, was it burn out, was it the challenge of competing in a cut-throat industry, or did her handlers simply not adequately prepare her for sustained success?<\/p>\n
These questions, of course (because my brain works in mysterious ways), led me to consider the evolution of the real estate agent. First, I will offer a couple of maxims which few industry insiders will argue. There are too many licensed agents, the ease with which one can obtain a License to Sell is shameful and serves to bastardize the profession, agents are not highly respected by the general populace, and individual brokerages are in large part to blame for what I see as the industry’s current public relations crisis.<\/p>\n
I am going to give Glenn Kelman<\/a> credit for that last one. In my recent sit-down with him, he commented:<\/p>\n Brokerages recruit more agents than a market needs because they want the split or they want the desk fee.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n We know why this is. Brian Brady talked about the formula for broker profitability<\/a> and how the A, B and C agents must all be courted. My question is, why do the brokerages seem to court the newer or lower producing C agents without the intent of giving them a realistic chance of becoming an A agent? Further, why do I see so many C agents who do not possess the fundamental skill sets or traits that could Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I sat down today fully intending to log my own comments on the ongoing dual agency debate. Yawn… I will save it for another time. Somewhere along the way in my thought process (brought to you by Tylenol), I drifted to the big news this weekend: Britney Spears is apparently channeling Jeff Brown. The big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}