{"id":2918,"date":"2008-04-08T09:55:28","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T16:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2008-04-08T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T17:08:08","slug":"80000-members-and-only-300-have-anything-to-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2918\/80000-members-and-only-300-have-anything-to-sell\/","title":{"rendered":"80,000 Members And Only 300 Have Anything To Sell?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In addition to questioning certain real estate agents as to just what they do that justifies the commission that they charge, we also have wondered aloud if the real estate market is in the state that it is because there are “no buyers”<\/strong><\/em>or is the real estate market in the state that it’s in because most real estate agents don’t know how to work in this market. <\/p>\n

How many Realtors are properly trained to respond to the challenges that are readily found in today’s real estate climate? How many Realtors simply have thrown in the proverbial towel and are merely hanging out in the barber shop telling war stories of the good old days?<\/p>\n

This market requires specialized training and even more…it requires a lot of enthusiastic ambition. If you are content to self-prophecize about there being no buyers, then there will be no buyers. What are you truly doing to generate revenue on a daily basis? If the fish aren’t buying then you have basically one or two problems, and only one of two problems.<\/p>\n

First, you may be using the wrong bait, second you are not fishing where the hungry fish are. That’s it. Really simple, now you’re problems are solved.<\/p>\n

Active Rain, with it’s 80,000+ members seems to be more the barbershop than the bastion of capitalism that it could be. We assumed, that with such a high contingent of Realtors hanging out in one locale that it would be simple to get in touch with some Realtors who have property to sell.<\/p>\n

One would think that by reading some of the posts that most of the agents there actually had listings and that the purpose of those listings was to actually seek buyers for them. Shame on me for assuming.<\/p>\n

We made a post on Active Rain <\/a>declaring in the fashion of Billy Ray Valentine and Louis Winthorpe <\/a>that we are actually buying.<\/p>\n

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In addition to that, we have a growing network of buyers across the USA that are aggressively looking to buy. You would have thought that the bell would be sounded on the trading floor and it would have been a Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to questioning certain real estate agents as to just what they do that justifies the commission that they charge, we also have wondered aloud if the real estate market is in the state that it is because there are “no buyers”or is the real estate market in the state that it’s in because […]<\/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":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2518,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2518\/net-borne-buyers-create-new-burdens-for-listing-agents\/","url_meta":{"origin":2918,"position":0},"title":"Net-borne buyers create new burdens for listing agents","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is my column for this week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link): \u00a0Net-borne buyers create new burdens for listing agents \"Eighty percent of buyers start their home search on the internet.\" You don't have to dig too deeply in the real estate world to unearth that statistic. 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