{"id":1132,"date":"2010-11-14T09:35:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T16:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2010-11-14T09:31:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T16:31:38","slug":"the-implied-accusation-in-real-estate-how-to-win-the-war-on-your-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1132\/the-implied-accusation-in-real-estate-how-to-win-the-war-on-your-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"The Implied Accusation in real estate: How to win the war on your attitude…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kicking this back to the top. I wrote this years ago (urf!), but it’s one of the most important posts I’ve written here. –GSS<\/em><\/p>\n

 
I had this as a comment late last night:<\/p>\n

Your cockiness and arrogance is only matched by your incompetence<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The author is Keith Brand from Housing Panic, writing under one of the half-dozen or so sock-puppet email addresses he uses. Don’t go looking for the comment. I have him blocked completely.<\/p>\n

The comment was in response to my post last night, Stopping traffic to sell houses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The remarks themselves are stupefyingly stupid, of course. Obviously I am arrogant and cocky — I think for good reason, but good reason or bad, I will be the first to lay the charges. “Insufferable bastard” fits me to a tee. “Incompetence” is simply comical in this context. I invented<\/i> the idea of the custom real estate sign, was grasping for it through two generations of our signs before it was physically possible.<\/p>\n

Oh, well. Who besides Keith Brand does not know that Keith Brand is an idiot? It’s very funny that he has chosen me as his poster child for a dumb Realtor, given who I am, given what we’ve done here. You could argue that this is the perfect testament to his stupidity, but there is more to be unearthed in the graveyard that is Keith Brand’s rotting soul.<\/p>\n

Consider: Do I know I’m cocky? Do I know I’m arrogant? Do I know I am supremely<\/i> competent — as a Realtor, as a real estate weblogger, as a real estate marketing innovator? I not only know that all of these things are true, they are among the very many proud facts of my life. So what could Keith Brand hope to achieve by saying,<\/p>\n

Your cockiness and arrogance is only matched by your incompetence<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is this supposed to move me to despair? Me?<\/i><\/p>\n

But: A different remark in a different context with a different person might have that effect. I am impervious to criticism. It’s either true or it isn’t. If it’s true, I am enriched for having learned better. If not, so what? But other people are different, Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kicking this back to the top. I wrote this years ago (urf!), but it’s one of the most important posts I’ve written here. –GSS  I had this as a comment late last night: Your cockiness and arrogance is only matched by your incompetence The author is Keith Brand from Housing Panic, writing under one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egoism-in-action","category-marketing","category-real-estate","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4415,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4415\/a-bloodhounds-arrogance-stumblin-on-the-heart-of-saturday-night\/","url_meta":{"origin":1132,"position":0},"title":"A Bloodhound’s arrogance stumblin’ on the heart of Saturday night","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 13, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Cross your fingers, Cathy may have brought home a $600,000 listing today. 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