{"id":13446,"date":"2010-11-01T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T16:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13446"},"modified":"2010-11-01T09:52:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T16:52:48","slug":"and-not-only-that-when-hes-wearin-his-cowboy-hat-jay-thompson-is-just-about-the-tallest-guy-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13446\/and-not-only-that-when-hes-wearin-his-cowboy-hat-jay-thompson-is-just-about-the-tallest-guy-around\/","title":{"rendered":"And not only that, when he’s wearin’ his cowboy hat, Jay Thompson is just about the tallest guy around!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pathetic fact number one: Jay Thompson is crowing<\/a> that his company is in the top 5% of Phoenix-area real estate brokerages.<\/p>\n

Pathetic fact number two: Thompson’s Realty has 104 closed residential transactions in ARMLS, year-to-date, spread across 21 licensees. Yeah, that’s fewer than five closings per head. Still worse, Shar Rundio accounts for 24 of those closings. That gets the other 20 mirror-foggers down to four deals each, on average. Jay and Francie have six closings between them. For reference, Cathleen and I have closed 27 properties, total, so far this year — and we’re broke!<\/p>\n

Pathetic fact number three: Jay Thompson is the poster-boy for the TwitBook model of selling real estate. Like so many other dipwads in the TwitBook world, he’s set up an on-line academy so you, too, can learn how to close a deal every other month or so.<\/p>\n

Your clients won’t believe bullshit. Too bad so many Realtors and lenders will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pathetic fact number one: Jay Thompson is crowing that his company is in the top 5% of Phoenix-area real estate brokerages. Pathetic fact number two: Thompson’s Realty has 104 closed residential transactions in ARMLS, year-to-date, spread across 21 licensees. Yeah, that’s fewer than five closings per head. 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