{"id":16722,"date":"2020-08-25T08:14:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T15:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16722"},"modified":"2020-08-25T10:03:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T17:03:47","slug":"horror-stories-wanted-how-has-real-estates-vendorslut-mafia-preyed-upon-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16722\/horror-stories-wanted-how-has-real-estates-vendorslut-mafia-preyed-upon-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror stories wanted: How has real estate\u2019s Vendorslut Mafia preyed upon you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cResults? Any day now, for sure. Meanwhile, this month\u2019s payment is due.\u201d Photo by Ian<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div>I don’t pay for leads.<\/strong> Never have, never will. I pay referral fees to other agents from time to time, this as a matter of expected courtesy, but I don’t collect fees for referrals \u2013 not alone to escape the burden of policing them.<\/p>\n

Not such big news, regardless: I don’t make a lot of money. We haven’t marketed for new business in ten years, and I make my meager living on repeats and referrals from my existing clients. I’ve never craved money \u2013 it shows, I swear \u2013 and I am not as much in love with collecting pelts as I once was. When BloodhoundBlog was young, I said we were a boutique brokerage. I am by now my sole licensee, and I think of myself as a lab-rat broker.<\/p>\n

I am mainly interested in listing for sale as though I were practicing free-throws on the basketball court. My goal is to perfect my listing praxis and then to hew to it with perfect performance. My numbers bear me out \u2013 but I don’t spend much on advertising, either.<\/p>\n

My curiosity runs the other way just now: How have you<\/u><\/em> been hurt as an agent or lender by your engagements with the sleazy folks we have always referred to as The Vendorslut Mafia?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Are there no happy stories? Surely there are. Deeper pockets going in may see happier outcomes going forward. But when you’re tap-dancing with your kid’s orthodontist so you can fork over cash you don’t have for “leads” that won’t pan out…<\/p>\n

Kinda sucks, don’t it…?<\/p>\n

I would love to hear about your experience. Who you paid. How much you paid. How things paid off.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m not shaming salesmaniacs, and I know it’s easy to click “Submit” before you know what you’re submitting to. And you can tell yourself that 65% of something is better than 100% of nothing \u2013 with luck missing out on the news that you’re paying some gonoph for coming between<\/strong> you and your client \u2013 typically with your own<\/em><\/strong> listings. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cResults? Any day now, for sure. Meanwhile, this month\u2019s payment is due.\u201d Photo by Ian on UnsplashI don’t pay for leads. Never have, never will. I pay referral fees to other agents from time to time, this as a matter of expected courtesy, but I don’t collect fees for referrals \u2013 not alone to escape […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[4,212,524,29,6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-fun-with-vendorsluts","9":"category-group-therapy","10":"category-marketing","11":"category-real-estate","12":"category-technology","14":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3282,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3282\/casual-friday-caption-this-photo\/","url_meta":{"origin":16722,"position":0},"title":"Casual Friday: Caption this photo","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"My entry: \"Because I happen to like Argyle socks, that's why!\"","rel":"","context":"In "Casual Friday"","block_context":{"text":"Casual Friday","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/casual-friday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3822,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3822\/caption-this-photo-president-bush-at-the-olympics\/","url_meta":{"origin":16722,"position":1},"title":"Caption this photo: President Bush at the Olympics","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"My entry: \"A gentleman always makes eye-contact.\"","rel":"","context":"In "Casual Friday"","block_context":{"text":"Casual Friday","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/casual-friday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8385,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8385\/caption-me-this-magnum\/","url_meta":{"origin":16722,"position":2},"title":"Caption Me This Magnum","author":"Brian Brady","date":"May 13, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"My vote?\u00a0 \"Who let Higgins in to your closet, Thomas? \" Sometimes, you just gotta have a sense of humor.","rel":"","context":"In "Casual Friday"","block_context":{"text":"Casual Friday","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/casual-friday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3289,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3289\/shout-out-a-toast-to-life-abundant-and-caption-this-photo\/","url_meta":{"origin":16722,"position":3},"title":"Shout out a toast to life abundant — and caption this photo","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 28, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Sez me: \"Bill Gates stole this facial expression from me and I want it back!\"","rel":"","context":"In "Casual Friday"","block_context":{"text":"Casual Friday","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/casual-friday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14685,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14685\/caption-obama-before-his-face-freezes-like-that\/","url_meta":{"origin":16722,"position":4},"title":"Caption Obama — before his face freezes like that.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"June 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"My vote: \"I don't get it. 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