{"id":10769,"date":"2010-01-06T14:12:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T21:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10769"},"modified":"2010-01-06T14:12:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T21:12:32","slug":"discerning-my-ideal-real-estate-team-which-personality-profiles-will-work-best-in-which-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10769\/discerning-my-ideal-real-estate-team-which-personality-profiles-will-work-best-in-which-position\/","title":{"rendered":"DISCerning my ideal real estate team: Which personality profiles will work best in which position?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Sunday’s New York Times<\/em> featured an article about a foreclosure caravan in South Florida<\/a>. It was the usual NYT sob story, but what popped out at me was the real estate agent. All through the piece he is arm-twisting his victims, and in several places his is plainly guilty of unsolicited — and very likely ill-advised — financial planning.<\/p>\n

This morning on ActiveRain I read a post from an agent essentially boasting that he blacklists certain agents listings<\/a>, keeping them from his buyer clients so that he won’t have to deal with practitioners of whom he disapproves.<\/p>\n

I’ve been a real estate broker since October of 2005. If you’ve ever wondered why we don’t have agents, those two examples are perfectly illustrative. Presumably both of these Realtors are acceptable to their own brokers, but I would sever both of them in a heartbeat. They are each one of them a lawsuit waiting to happen, and I could not be rid of either one of them quickly enough.<\/p>\n

Except that I will probably never have this problem, because, even when we do start to recruit agents, I will never have anything to do with people who would even think<\/em> of putting their own interests ahead of the client’s.<\/p>\n

You may at this point want to protest that I am being too harsh, but my belief is that Caesar’s wife must be above reproach<\/a>. Never-been-sued is not a mark of pride. What we want is to achieve a level of rigor and candor in the work we do such that there is no room in our clients’ mind for even an implied accusation<\/a>. We will have done our jobs the way I want them done when there is no possibility of even a hint of a doubt that we would ever serve our own interests at the expense of the interests of the people we work for.<\/p>\n

People here and elsewhere have written a lot about the ideal post-Web-2.0 real estate brokerage. I’ve not participated in those discussions, because it’s not something I’m interested in. I don’t care how someone is going to make a brokerage of Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Sunday’s New York Times featured an article about a foreclosure caravan in South Florida. It was the usual NYT sob story, but what popped out at me was the real estate agent. 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