{"id":2818,"date":"2008-03-22T16:59:42","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T23:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2008-03-22T17:03:15","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T00:03:15","slug":"would-you-hire-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2818\/would-you-hire-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Would You Hire Yourself?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is an ongoing argument as to the value of a real estate agent in today’s real estate market. It can’t be settled with rhetoric and mantras. In order for there to be an effective resolve, the Realtor industry must reach out to the American consumer and seek to validate the need for their existence in a transaction.<\/p>\n

This should not be a hard feat. However most agents, for some unknown reason, find it to be beneath them to quantify their “value” much less dollarize<\/a><\/strong> it. When posed with the notion that they may be required to actually prove their worth, many ignorantly say that doctors and lawyers and professional athletes don’t have to justify their fees so why should they. Oh really?<\/p>\n

Is that the answer you want the Consumer to walk away with? If you are not willing to justify yourself to the Consumer, how about justifying your commission and worth to yourself?<\/p>\n

Would you hire yourself? Be honest. You know what you have done…lately<\/strong>. Don’t tell me, the Consumer or yourself that you USED <\/strong>to be great. At one point Carl Lewis was the fastest man in the world. At one time Bear Stearns was a respected fixture on Wall Street. At one time you may have been a high performing agent.<\/p>\n

Banks only allow appraisals going back 6 months, some are only allowing data that goes back just 3 months. In doing a realistic appraisal of yourself, it’s not accurate to say what you have done. The Consumer wants to know what you have done LATELY<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So let’s assess ourselves accurately, shall we?. In order to do so we’ll need to collect actual qualified data. Not just a self-adulating pat on the back. So let’s ask ourselves some questions and come up with a dossier as to why we would even entertain hiring ourselves.<\/p>\n

1. Experience:<\/strong>
\na. How long have you been a real Estate Agent?
\nb. When were you licensed and has your license been continually active?
\nc. Please explain any interruptions in service since the time you were first licensed
\nd. What, if any, continuing education or niche specific training have you taken and completed Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is an ongoing argument as to the value of a real estate agent in today’s real estate market. It can’t be settled with rhetoric and mantras. In order for there to be an effective resolve, the Realtor industry must reach out to the American consumer and seek to validate the need for their existence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"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":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-marketing","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2828,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2828\/the-odysseus-medal-lions-in-the-wild-seem-about-ten-times-more-alive\/","url_meta":{"origin":2818,"position":0},"title":"The Odysseus Medal: “Lions in the wild seem about ten times more alive”","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"The Odysseus Medal this week goes to another truly amazing essay from outside our little RE.net cloister. 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