{"id":8334,"date":"2009-05-10T12:43:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T19:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8334"},"modified":"2009-05-10T12:43:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T19:43:01","slug":"greg-swann-duty-honor-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8334\/greg-swann-duty-honor-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Swann: Duty, Honor, Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wasn’t born when General MacArthur gave “the speech<\/a>“, at West Point but I’ve read it a hundred times.\u00a0 I delivered it as an exercise for a public speaking class in college.<\/p>\n

Duty,\u00a0Honor, Country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When I think of Greg Swann…my friend, my partner, my brother if you will, those three words, spoken by General MacArthur, come to mind:<\/span><\/p>\n

Duty:<\/strong> If you have the good fortune to engage his services, you’ll find few real estate professionals who live the duty of “real estate advocate” like Greg Swann.\u00a0 I once thought Greg’s definition of duty impractical; I was wrong.\u00a0 Few real estate brokers or agents will choose Greg’s high standard of customer care.\u00a0 That doesn’t make those brokers or agents im<\/em>moral nor does it make Greg Swann im<\/em>practical but it does define the relationship you, a buyer or seller of Arizona property, would receive should you choose to employ his brokerage. <\/span><\/p>\n

Potential home buyers should read:<\/span><\/p>\n

Dual Agency Smack-Down: Real estate in real life . . .<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>A consumer\u2019s guide to the divorced real estate commission: Why buyers and sellers each paying for their own representation is the most significant reform that can be made today in residential real estate <\/a><\/p>\n

Potential home sellers should read:<\/p>\n

How single property websites promote your property in Google.<\/a><\/p>\n

How custom-made yard signs stop traffic<\/a><\/p>\n

Honor:<\/strong> Few real estate brokers wish for lesser competition for the sole purpose of raising the standard of customer care but Greg Swann does<\/a>.\u00a0 Greg organized three online real estate marketing conferences and is organizing one for this fall in San Diego.\u00a0 Over 150 real estate and lending professionals have been introduced to a higher degree of customer care through his carefully organized curriculum<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase. Every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and Read more<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wasn’t born when General MacArthur gave “the speech“, at West Point but I’ve read it a hundred times.\u00a0 I delivered it as an exercise for a public speaking class in college. Duty,\u00a0Honor, Country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. 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