{"id":3224,"date":"2008-06-10T04:34:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T11:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2008-06-10T04:34:32","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T11:34:32","slug":"you-control-way-more-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3224\/you-control-way-more-than-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"You Control Way More Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are an enemy of agents working hard, you are an enemy of mine.  If you make it socially acceptable to fail in this market, you–personally–are as bad as the media that has made it socially acceptable to walk away from your house.  I have said to just walk away from failure enablers, but I have to fight back.  <\/p>\n

I read a post yesterday that made me again question WHY I read RE blogs.  The poster had some closings that were going sideways It occurred to me that this mighta<\/em> been their fault.  I mentioned this.   This agent was using the ‘best lender, best systems and best procedures,’ to  watch their deals go sideways, and then use the best blog to yell at the echo chamber…I was quickly shouted down by the chorus of failure fanatics.  <\/p>\n

If Your Systems Are Failing, By Definition, They Ain’t The Best!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lemme tell ya something.  There are people doing great (and easy) business in this market.  I know a buyer’s agent here Columbus that has 7 houses under contract every month like a machine.  That’s because the month before he sends 15 people up for loan approval, and won’t be satisfied with a non approved loan, and asks me brutal questions.  Generates his own leads, doesn’t take listings, and is in 100% control.  Stuff happens, but it’s never on more than 1\/10th of his business.  OH, this agent sells everyone two houses.  His buyers write an ethical and fully disclosed second house offer in case the first house fails to get the short sale processes moving at two places so he’s guaranteed a check.  And with his deals, he runs the short sale unless it’s a listing agent he knows.  He’s taken responsibility for way more work.   <\/p>\n

It’s More Comfortable to Be and to Manufacture Victims<\/h3>\n

It’s infinitely more comfortable to think that something else was the author of our failure, isn’t it?  It makes us all feel better when we don’t have to realize that we effed it up, because the (choose one) [Buyer\/broker\/builder\/lender\/other agent\/title Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you are an enemy of agents working hard, you are an enemy of mine.  If you make it socially acceptable to fail in this market, you–personally–are as bad as the media that has made it socially acceptable to walk away from your house.  I have said to just walk away from failure enablers, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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":[24,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":199,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/199\/butler-prices-down-sales-up-logic-sideways\/","url_meta":{"origin":3224,"position":0},"title":"Butler: Prices down, sales up, logic sideways . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 11, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Catherine Reagor in today's Republic:Home prices dipped slightly in July, but sales inched up from June. 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