{"id":439,"date":"2006-09-26T11:07:09","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T18:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2006-09-26T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T18:07:15","slug":"blogoff-post-62-weblog-review-hamptons-real-estate-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/439\/blogoff-post-62-weblog-review-hamptons-real-estate-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogoff Post #62: Weblog Review: Hamptons Real Estate Blog . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you smell the salt in the air? Doesn’t it make you crave linguine in clam sauce? Welcome to the Hamptons Real Estate Blog<\/a>, a place of salt, surf and sand — and huge, rambling, very expensive houses.<\/p>\n

There’s little enough we have to go by, in reading a weblog. Style is a hard thing to develop. You write and write, and for the longest time, you write every which way. If you didn’t attach your name to your prose, no one would know it was yours.<\/p>\n

This is not true of weblogger Michael Daly, who has a voice all his own. I’ll read just about anything he writes, simply to have read him.<\/p>\n

Witness<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Confidence – Many of today’s agents come from other successful careers in finance, advertising, law, hospitality, and retail. But real estate is a product unto its own. I’ve seen successful bankers crumble at the rejection and lack of loyalty that a real estate agent sometimes has to swallow. I’ve seen grown women brought to tears because their best friends from childhood bought a house from someone else after they dragged them around for the past six months, looking at everything they said they wanted to see. If you don’t have the confidence to take the ups and downs, and if you can’t accept that fact that real estate agents are often held in the same regard as car salespeople (which encourages clients and customers to be less than completely truthful due to the intrinsic lack of respect for the industry in general), then you’re going to struggle. Don’t take it personally. It’s not about who you are (or who you were) – it’s about how you conduct yourself in the moment.<\/p>\n

Commitment – Working as an independent contractor in the real estate business is different than working a 9-to-5 job on Lexington Avenue. If you don’t show up, you don’t have a chance to make a commission. Getting to know the market, attending brokers’ open houses (not just the ones with lunch), learning how to read tax maps, negotiating the web-based tools of the trade, and standing in line and begging Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you smell the salt in the air? Doesn’t it make you crave linguine in clam sauce? Welcome to the Hamptons Real Estate Blog, a place of salt, surf and sand — and huge, rambling, very expensive houses. There’s little enough we have to go by, in reading a weblog. 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