{"id":7603,"date":"2009-03-27T07:19:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T14:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7603"},"modified":"2009-03-27T07:34:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T14:34:34","slug":"wheaten-terrier-picks-agent-for-150m-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7603\/wheaten-terrier-picks-agent-for-150m-listing\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheaten Terrier Picks Agent for $150m Listing"},"content":{"rendered":"

How long before the “Real Estate Coaches” are advising their clients to walk into listing appointments with a pocketful of snausages?<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The widow of producer Aaron Spelling is placing “The Manor” in the exclusive Holmby Hills neighborhood on the market for a jaw-dropping $150 million, making it by far the most expensive home for sale in the U.S…<\/p>\n

…Candy Spelling’s late husband produced hit shows such as “Charlie’s Angels,””Dynasty” and “Beverly Hills 90210.” He died in 2006…<\/p>\n

…Candy Spelling told The Associated Press that she let her dog Madison, a soft-coated Wheaten Terrier, help pick out the best real estate agent for the task. She had her security bring the dog into the room every time she met one of the candidate agents and watched how the dog reacted. If Madison didn’t like them, Spelling crossed them off the list.<\/p>\n

Prospective buyers won’t have to worry about passing such scrutiny, Spelling jokes.<\/p>\n

“Not at all,” she says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Too bad her late husband didn’t have the dog sniff the shows he produced.<\/p>\n

What a laugh Candy is having at our expense. She thinks all agents are the same. One of them is going to get let’s say a cool 1% of $150m ($1.5m). That’s probably Madison’s yearly grooming budget, so let’s let the dog decide. What a lark.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what the take-away is, here.<\/p>\n

Part of me realizes the problem isn’t that Candy let her dog pick her Real Estate agent. The problem is that Candy, widow of Aaron, mother of Tori, knew it would play<\/em>.<\/p>\n

If she thought for a second that the general public or prospective buyers would think she was an idiot for letting the dog pick a Realtor, she wouldn’t be laughing about it with the AP. It’s not that she made the joke, its that she knew the audience would get it.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, it’s Friday. If you have spent the week trying to be the best agent or broker you can be, trying to build your business in this market, and then you find out that a dog decided who got the most expensive listing in the US, it Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How long before the “Real Estate Coaches” are advising their clients to walk into listing appointments with a pocketful of snausages? LOS ANGELES (AP) – The widow of producer Aaron Spelling is placing “The Manor” in the exclusive Holmby Hills neighborhood on the market for a jaw-dropping $150 million, making it by far the most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3054,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3054\/how-do-you-spell-mls\/","url_meta":{"origin":7603,"position":0},"title":"How Do You Spell MLS?","author":"Dave Phillips","date":"May 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Once, many years ago, I spelled CRB wrong and offended a bunch of brokers who held that designation.\u00a0 I spelled it \u201cCRS.\u201d\u00a0 Easy mistake for someone new to the REALTOR\u00ae business.\u00a0 Heck, I hardly knew the difference between an agent and a broker back then, so how was I to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Enduring Interest"","block_context":{"text":"Enduring Interest","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/enduring-interest\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"mls","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/showcaserealtyaz.com\/images\/realtor_20mls_58am.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15018,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15018\/google-thinks-your-idx-site-sucks\/","url_meta":{"origin":7603,"position":1},"title":"Google Thinks Your IDX Site Sucks","author":"John Rowles","date":"September 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"There are plenty of places to go if this is your first time hearing about \u201cPanda\u201d, but the general idea is that Google has set out to target what it considers to be \u201clow quality\u201d content of the sort generally propagated by link farms, scrapers, and the eHows of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Real Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14249,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14249\/i-have-a-no-fee-referral-for-a-hard-working-listing-agent-in-minneapolis\/","url_meta":{"origin":7603,"position":2},"title":"I have a no-fee referral for a hard-working listing agent in Minneapolis.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"March 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Mom has moved to managed care in sunny Arizona. 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