{"id":2352,"date":"2007-12-11T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2007-12-11T01:06:07","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T08:06:07","slug":"is-the-goal-is-to-have-a-big-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2352\/is-the-goal-is-to-have-a-big-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Goal is to Have a Big Team?"},"content":{"rendered":"

“My goal is to have a big team”. I actually had a Realtor say exactly that to me. Why? Is there some special reason someone, who wasn’t deranged, would have the goal of having a big overhead and loads of people to manage and be responsible for and to? Is it possible that a sane and rational person would ever have such a goal? The answer is, yes, if they are stupid enough. He was, too. One of the lowest responsibility, most intellectually lazy people I’ve ever known. He later, as part of his program to build a large team opened his own office and after being open for business about 90 days sent me an email asking the name of a good book on how to recruit agents. He discovered that agents weren’t lining up to come to work for his little shoestring operation and then thought he might want to learn a little about that. If it wasn’t too much trouble, of course. He never did. He then shut that down and went back to being an agent with someone to help him with buyers. He is still working on “having a big team”.<\/p>\n

Please understand I am not against someone (say for example, me) having<\/u> a large team. No no. It is just that isn’t the goal<\/em>. No good reason for anyone to have that for a goal.<\/p>\n

The goal is (or at least should be) something along the lines of I want more money after all expenses and<\/u> I want more free time<\/em>. Having a team (other personal) \"teamwork\"can help to make that possible. Most real estate “teams” are
\nnot teams at all. More a group of people all sort of working together in the same building. They may have a helpful attitude towards each other and be quite happy when they see each other but that doesn’t make them a team. I get asked often by other agents who “have a team if my buyer agents are allowed to list property (no, never) or if my listers are allowed to work a buyer (almost never). They are usually surprised, Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“My goal is to have a big team”. I actually had a Realtor say exactly that to me. Why? Is there some special reason someone, who wasn’t deranged, would have the goal of having a big overhead and loads of people to manage and be responsible for and to? 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