{"id":2075,"date":"2007-10-22T12:39:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T19:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2007-10-22T12:37:07","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T19:37:07","slug":"the-odysseus-medal-99-of-all-sub-agents-dont-even-exist-any-longer-but-why-should-that-matter-to-the-wharton-school-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2075\/the-odysseus-medal-99-of-all-sub-agents-dont-even-exist-any-longer-but-why-should-that-matter-to-the-wharton-school-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odysseus Medal — 99% of all sub-agents don’t even exist any longer, but why should that matter to the Wharton School of Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a busy boy. We’re busy with money work, but Cathleen has been sick, sicker, pneumoniated. The good news is, you don’t have to cut off your ear to take great pictures<\/a>, you just have to hack like Selma on the Simpsons. I’m picking up the slack, plus I have a great new idea for BloodhoundBlog that we’ll be rolling out shortly. In any case, I might seem abrupt here, but that is no stain on the quality of today’s winning posts.<\/p>\n

Jim Duncan was one of the first real estate webloggers I became aware of when we started BloodhoundBlog. We discovered the power of the long tail together in posts about dual agency. He is always to be found on the side of righteousness in real estate — ethics, education, putting the client first with first-rate service. He’s a great blogger, too, as he demonstrates with this week’s Odysseus Medal winner, Wither false blame?<\/a>, an extended riposte to a particularly lame lamentation about imaginary offenses by the sub-agents who no longer exist in most states:<\/p>\n

The author and professors make one accurate argument accidentally – until the real estate industry, mortgage industry, HUD, etc. embrace divorced commissions, we have a long way to go. Divorced commissions means simply that the buyer pays the buyer’s agent and the seller pays the seller’s agent. Until this is fixed, the perception will exist amongst those who don’t know any better – whether by unfamiliarity or neglect (as would seem to be the case in the Wharton professors’ cases) – that true representation does not exist.<\/p>\n

I come not to condemn the professors (I have read the Mortgage Professor site for years), but to enlighten them to the wonderful world known as the 21st century and Buyer Brokerage. While the seller may pay my commission now, the loyalty and trust I am earning is the buyers’.<\/p>\n

Here’s a proposal – First, apologize and clarify. Second, invite a guest speaker write a guest post on your blog and to explain to your classes what real estate agency and buyer\/seller representation are. Explain how much the profession has changed in Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a busy boy. We’re busy with money work, but Cathleen has been sick, sicker, pneumoniated. The good news is, you don’t have to cut off your ear to take great pictures, you just have to hack like Selma on the Simpsons. 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