{"id":599,"date":"2006-11-04T01:12:06","date_gmt":"2006-11-04T08:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=599"},"modified":"2006-11-04T06:06:42","modified_gmt":"2006-11-04T13:06:42","slug":"thank-you-thank-you-and-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/599\/thank-you-thank-you-and-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, thank you, and thank you!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you, thank you, and thank you! What a welcome. Just goes to show what a difference having an audience makes when it comes to doing a show. I had tried blogging before, but the only people reading it were friends of mine (who weren’t Realtors). Strange, I know – as the past few years you could almost ask anyone you met if they were a Realtor yet. If the United States has finally achieved the level of 300 million people and 1.2 million of them are Realtors (members of NAR) it would look like there is one licensed agent member of NAR for every 250 people in the U.S. This includes children.<\/p>\n

If we excluded children and only figure the probable number of people who maybe could buy or sell a house is around 175 people for every Realtor. If the average turnover rate of the average neighborhood is about 8% and all sales were done through Realtors (they aren’t) this would be about 14 possible sales a year per Realtor. Coldwell Banker for example has national averages of about 10.5 homes per year per agent (same numbers for John Hall & Associates). Take the average sales price and what might be an average commission, less the splits to the broker and you this isn’t a lot of money per agent – as they all have business costs (car, gas, board dues, and advertising) to come out of that.<\/p>\n

The average net income of an agent really isn’t very much money. For the most part, selling houses isn’t what would be called “creative selling” – which is to say that almost all of the sales would occur or not regardless of who is in the real estate business in any particular area – it isn’t the agent who is causing the sale to occur. That buyer or seller already had a need and decided to hire someone. So almost every time an agent makes a sale (listing or selling side) they “took” that sale away from some other agent. This is true even if the client never spoke to any other Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank you, thank you, and thank you! What a welcome. Just goes to show what a difference having an audience makes when it comes to doing a show. I had tried blogging before, but the only people reading it were friends of mine (who weren’t Realtors). 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