{"id":2114,"date":"2007-10-29T12:07:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T19:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2007-10-29T12:05:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T19:05:09","slug":"the-odysseus-medal-we-realtors-are-ironically-the-easiest-people-to-manipulate-because-we-count-the-money-before-its-printed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2114\/the-odysseus-medal-we-realtors-are-ironically-the-easiest-people-to-manipulate-because-we-count-the-money-before-its-printed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odysseus Medal: “We Realtors are ironically, the easiest people to manipulate because we count the money before it’s printed”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the thing: I am a complete sucker for good writing. I like big ideas, I like radical ideas (ya think?), I especially like profoundly and transparently ethical ideas. But if you can write entrancingly about just about anything — I am duly entranced. We live and learn by telling stories, and all of the arts, at their best, are most fundamentally literary. The burnished word is the reflection of humanity’s godhead, the breath of the sublime made manifest in speech, in poetry, in prose, in the drama, even in the cacophonous news of our everyday lives. We are animals, and so we sleep and scratch and snuffle. But we are a spectacular genetic accident, a thing of nature that cannot exist except as an artifact, a man-made thing. By dint of our conceptualization, given form in speech and in abstract notation systems, we are a thing apart from nature, the god-like consciousness that gives nature meaning beyond mere randomness. In our words, in the works of our unprecedented minds, we celebrate all we are and all we can become. And so it would not be wrong to say that I am continuously in the thrall of human life well celebrated.<\/p>\n

Hence: This week’s Odysseus Medal goes to Geno Petro for Memoirs Of A Big Fat Liar<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I won’t promise ‘lightning in a bottle’<\/em> to a potential client but I will pledge to use my resources (spend my own money) in the most efficient manner I see fit. Let’s face it, the Listing Agent is in the hole the minute he walks out the door with the Exclusive and only collects when the property actually sells–correction:<\/strong><\/em> …when the property actually sells under his watch.<\/em> Phone calls from Vegas are never<\/em> good under any<\/em> circumstance, I’ve found.<\/p>\n

I’ll try<\/em> not to promise the Moon no matter how much I allow myself to be manipulated by the situation (potential paycheck). And that is<\/em> why we do it, you know. We Realtors are ironically, the easiest people to manipulate because we count the money before it’s printed. We may say we don’t but most of us secretly Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the thing: I am a complete sucker for good writing. I like big ideas, I like radical ideas (ya think?), I especially like profoundly and transparently ethical ideas. But if you can write entrancingly about just about anything — I am duly entranced. 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