{"id":883,"date":"2007-01-11T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T19:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=883"},"modified":"2007-01-11T12:45:17","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T19:45:17","slug":"whats-better-than-having-a-realtors-advice-having-a-realtors-advice-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/883\/whats-better-than-having-a-realtors-advice-having-a-realtors-advice-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s better than having a Realtor’s advice? Having a Realtor’s advice for free!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Friday, on January 5, our nephew Bryan celebrated his twenty-first birthday. Less than a week earlier, on New Year’s Eve, he wasn’t yet old enough to join in a New Year’s champaign toast at the club where’s he’s played gigs for the past few years. He graduated from high school three Decembers ago, last month he celebrated his second wedding anniversary, and later this month he’ll begin his fourth year in the US Navy, where he plays sax in the Navy Band Southeast’s Jazz Ensemble<\/a> in Florida. And… he has already had three real estate transactions in escrow, every time without having been represented by a real estate agent. How has he fared in real estate? Not very well, despite being the favorite nephew of real estate professionals in Texas and Arizona. And why would that be? Because after having listened to the advice of his doting aunts and uncles, he followed the course that made the most sense to him and his young bride. <\/p>\n

I don’t blame youth for real estate decisions that Bryan has made contrary to loving expert advice. I blame “human nature.” There is a reason that everyone who speaks English knows the old saw, “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.” I began this post with Bryan’s bio to demonstrate that despite his tender years, he has made several life altering decisions. And I should also point out that Bryan actually solicited our opinions, rather than having them forced upon him, which is so often the lot of young people. So you would assume that he asked our advice so he could mull it over, weigh it and then make a better decision having had the benefit of expertise. There’s even a good probability that Brian no longer remembers that Aunt Denise suggested he not walk away from his first purchase contract and his $5,000 earnest deposit, nor Aunt Cathy’s caution against buying a much lesser property, a condo, six months later, during Florida’s bloated seller’s market, for the same price he would have payed for the first house<\/i>. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Friday, on January 5, our nephew Bryan celebrated his twenty-first birthday. Less than a week earlier, on New Year’s Eve, he wasn’t yet old enough to join in a New Year’s champaign toast at the club where’s he’s played gigs for the past few years. 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The concept focuses the mind, and the word calls forth\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":237,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/237\/if-you-have-nothing-to-say-say-it-loud\/","url_meta":{"origin":883,"position":3},"title":"If you have nothing to say, say it loud . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 23, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Probably the whole world knows about this amazingly cool site where you can create virtually any type of graphic atrocity, but it was new to me. I want to see that chrome effect over a desert sunset on a Realtor's business card. 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