{"id":225,"date":"2006-08-19T20:11:44","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T03:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2006-08-19T20:12:37","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T03:12:37","slug":"what-is-broken-in-real-life-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/225\/what-is-broken-in-real-life-real-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"What is broken in real-life real estate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In comments to a post at Rain City Guide<\/a>, new agent Seattle Eric wrestles with Lady Ardell over what is and is not broken in real estate representation.<\/p>\n

Ardell offers an amazingly detailed list, at which I can only marvel. I’ve had run-ins with less-than-perfect agents, but my common experience is the opposite — very thoughtful, experienced, conscientious people. I’ve heard a lot of stories about bad agents, but I almost always assume that stories improve with age, with retelling and with the transfer of retelling rights from the original raconteur to who knows how many raconteurs-by-proxy. We are not liars, as a species, just very good storytellers.<\/p>\n

(Even so, bad agent stories are a good education. Love is hard but hate is easy. Most of your clients will love you if you do nothing they hate, and bad agent stories are how they tell you what they hate.)<\/p>\n

My beef with other Realtors has to do with their being lazy and complacent, rather than their being corrupt or stupid. Much of what I write about here consists of marketing ideas we are pioneering. You could argue that we are arming our own competition, but I know we are not. As good as the ideas we deploy are, no one<\/i> in my market is copying them. That’s all you have to do by the time we’re done — monkey-see, monkey-do — but the agents are too lazy, too cheap or too clueless to jump on an intellectual bandwagon they exerted not one thought to create in the first place. Dinosaur is always<\/i> on the lunch menu.<\/p>\n

In the same respect, I am appalled by how how inept, technically, many Realtors are. Jim Cronin at The Real Estate Tomato had a wonderful riff on how stupid e-Pro is<\/a> — and people at ActiveRain argued with him about it. We live at the far right edge of this Bell Curve, but my assumption, always, is that agents I’ll end up working with will be very far to the left side.<\/p>\n

In general, I think agents do way too much of what Ardell argues they no longer do enough Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In comments to a post at Rain City Guide, new agent Seattle Eric wrestles with Lady Ardell over what is and is not broken in real estate representation. Ardell offers an amazingly detailed list, at which I can only marvel. I’ve had run-ins with less-than-perfect agents, but my common experience is the opposite — very […]<\/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":[3,4,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-disintermediation","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":603,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/603\/ardell-dellaloggia-didn%e2%80%99t-write-this\/","url_meta":{"origin":225,"position":0},"title":"Ardell DellaLoggia didn’t write this!","author":"Russell Shaw","date":"November 5, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"She did, however, write this post on raincityguide. 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