{"id":3349,"date":"2008-07-12T09:47:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T16:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2014-12-02T06:33:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T13:33:22","slug":"meano-geno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3349\/meano-geno\/","title":{"rendered":"Meano Geno"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feedback<\/a>
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\n“Okay,” I finally tell the other realtor after\u00a0two solid minutes of back and forth phone chatter. “You’re right. I’m wrong. You win the argument. But guess what…? We’re still<\/em> not buying the house.”<\/p>\n

I try to be nice. I really do.\u00a0\u00a0But sometimes my fellow property slingers just touch on\u00a0that last raw nerve (I think we all know which one I’m referring to) and I say something mean.\u00a0 One agent even called me “Meano Geno.”<\/p>\n

“Thanks for the feedback,<\/em> Meano Geno,” she snapped into the phone.<\/p>\n

“You’re not very welcome,” I muttered back into the dial tone.<\/p>\n

I’ve written about this before; listing agents\u00a0who, within hours and sometimes even minutes<\/em>\u00a0of a showing, ring me up for feedback. And\u00a0occasionally, they\u00a0don’t even wait for\u00a0everyone to leave the premises. One recently minted licensee strategically\u00a0positioned himself in the foyer\u00a0as\u00a0my clients and I\u00a0were scurrying\u00a0to safety through the living room.\u00a0 Blocking the front door\u00a0with his presumptuousness, he\u00a0posed to us, with the toothy despondence of a Ford<\/em> sales trainee, the universal cliche of the day…<\/p>\n

“What do we have to do to earn your business today, sir?”\u00a0he asked, looking right past me and<\/em> my client’s\u00a0wife, going straight to the perceived decision maker. The husband looked at me. I looked at the wife.\u00a0We paused for a moment of silence. I reached into my shirt pocket and took out the business card of\u00a0an agent we met an hour earlier at a different showing; another panter<\/em>. \u00a0(Pant”er\\, n. One who pants. –Congreve.)<\/p>\n

“Here…call me later for feedback,” I said as we all inched\u00a0past him, close enough to catch a whiff of that new car smell cologne he was wearing, and slipped out the front door in single file, toward higher, more residentially improved\u00a0ground.\u00a0\u00a0Our new toothy friend stared down at the gold embossed Century 21 card for a few seconds then looked up at us before finally calling out toward the sidewalk…<\/p>\n

“Thank you Barbara!<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Me too, me too<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, I know. I can be glib at times.\u00a0\u00a0And the truth is, I am hardly ever without a half dozen or so of my own problematic listings that need to be sold yesterday. The difference between me (along with\u00a0those like me–us, we…) and Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feedback “Okay,” I finally tell the other realtor after\u00a0two solid minutes of back and forth phone chatter. “You’re right. I’m wrong. You win the argument. But guess what…? We’re still not buying the house.” I try to be nice. I really do.\u00a0\u00a0But sometimes my fellow property slingers just touch on\u00a0that last raw nerve (I think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[5],"tags":[528,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-3349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","7":"tag-chicago-real-estate","8":"tag-geno-petro","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10263,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10263\/coming-soon\/","url_meta":{"origin":3349,"position":0},"title":"Coming Soon….","author":"Geno Petro","date":"November 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Can't locate my muse but I'm working on it... 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