{"id":5216,"date":"2008-10-26T05:36:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T12:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5216"},"modified":"2008-10-26T05:36:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T12:36:19","slug":"real-estate-and-the-ties-that-bind-i-have-to-warn-you-my-moms-a-bit-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5216\/real-estate-and-the-ties-that-bind-i-have-to-warn-you-my-moms-a-bit-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Real estate and the ties that bind: “I have to warn you, my mom’s a bit crazy”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just because I write on Bloodhound, doesn’t mean I have a big mouth… Or does it? Either way, when I’m with clients I try to do more listening than talking. I can’t help them if I don’t know what they are thinking.<\/p>\n

I enjoy working with young clients. I love the energy, the enthusiasm, the optimism. It doesn’t matter how experienced they are at buying property, it’s their youthfulness that is so fun to be around. We establish a rapport quickly, and my blog helps with that. I’m told by these clients that they read my blog, so they know they can trust me. Older clients don’t read my blog- they find me elsewhere- so the trust is slower in coming. The agent\/client relationship is much more solid at a faster pace with blog readers.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I spent a glorious fall day walking acreage with a young couple from out of town. We have been emailing and phone calling for about two months now. They were in town in September to look at property, but I was at BlogWorld. A colleague was kind enough to jump in and show them around, but the couple and I missed the chance to look each other in the eyes, shake hands, size each other up, all those physical things that happen in a face-to-face meeting.<\/p>\n

They decided they wanted to look at acreage, farmland. They have some farming experience in Europe, and Mom farms and Mom will be spending time with them here. Mom wants a farm. They were coming to town this weekend and we found some properties that met their criteria, set up the appointments. Oh and by the way, Mom is here, so she’ll be coming.<\/p>\n

This sometimes happens with young clients. Mom and Dad, my generation or older, have some experience with real estate, and real estate agents. They are in town, so either they are coming along to make sure their babies are not getting ripped off, or they are coming along to give real advice and a second opinion.<\/p>\n

Always, I get prepped from the daughters: “My mom is coming along. I have Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I grew up with brothers. I can step aside and let a female be the Queen Bee. If the property needs the Mom Seal of Approval, then fine with me. But usually Mom is just a Mom- not a raving lunatic, not a crazy person, not some maniac that somehow managed to pull her thoughts together just long enough to raise the daughter before succumbing to the insanity that has been lurking below the surface for the past 22 years. No. This crazy mom is simply a woman who raised her daughter to have an opinion and voice it when she felt the need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"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":[29,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8771,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8771\/why-real-estate-agents-should-stop-playing-loan-officer\/","url_meta":{"origin":5216,"position":0},"title":"Why Real Estate Agents Should Stop Playing Loan Officer","author":"Mark Madsen","date":"June 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I wasted a few hours this week cleaning up the messes that real estate agents created for their first time home-buyers. 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