{"id":977,"date":"2007-02-01T07:02:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T14:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=977"},"modified":"2007-02-01T07:07:30","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T14:07:30","slug":"whatever-it-takes-a-determined-realtor-is-a-bargain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/977\/whatever-it-takes-a-determined-realtor-is-a-bargain\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever it takes: A determined Realtor is a bargain . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Turner wrote this in a comment<\/a>, but I think my answer to him justifies a post of its own:<\/p>\n

Greg, what percentage of transactions fall into the category of “requires great skill,” as a result of the kind of title issues you speak of in this post, and what percentage fall into the “no problems” category?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Four out of five, at least, seem very routine to me, but that’s misleading. There is no transaction we are involved in to which we don’t bring a great deal of non-obvious value. Frankly, if I just talk<\/i> with you, or visit you at home, I’m going to shed a lot of information gleaned from experience. I’ve seen thousands of houses. I’ve worked with hundreds of buyers and sellers. I’ve been directly involved in dozens of escrows from start to finish. You might be a lot smarter man than me, but I have seen everything, big and small, that can go wrong in the sale of a home. I’m not just there for the paperwork, which any title company can do in Arizona, and I’m not just taking your order, sink or swim. My job is to make sure you get everything you want — as, when and in the amount you want. So even on transactions that seem routine to me, I will be doing many, many things for you that you would not know to do for yourself. It’s not razzle-dazzle salesmanship, and it’s not some vast brilliance. More than anything else, it’s the knowledge that comes from having done it so many times before.<\/p>\n

For what it’s worth, the house that closed yesterday didn’t require great skill, just bulldozer persistence. A dozen phone calls a day for weeks, not letting up. Yesterday, I spent half the day in my car moving documents myself to avoid courier delays. This is dumb work, perhaps demeaning to some. My attitude: Whatever it takes. Last Friday I looked at a hopeless situation and bet everything I had that we could get the job done by the end of the month. At two-thirty yesterday afternoon, the movers were waiting Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff Turner wrote this in a comment, but I think my answer to him justifies a post of its own: Greg, what percentage of transactions fall into the category of “requires great skill,” as a result of the kind of title issues you speak of in this post, and what percentage fall into the “no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[4,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9727,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9727\/twittering-twitts-of-twittledom\/","url_meta":{"origin":977,"position":0},"title":"Twittering Twitts of Twittledom","author":"Sean Purcell","date":"September 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I have always loved Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll.\u00a0 It is many things, not least of which is a truly amazing exposition on language.\u00a0 I bring this up because I recently read Brian Brady's piece entitled Is Social Media Marketing Worth the Effort and quickly imagined myself on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Casual Friday"","block_context":{"text":"Casual Friday","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/casual-friday\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"tweedledee-tweedledum","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/tweedledee-tweedledum.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5793,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5793\/my-bloodhoundblog-wish-list-as-we-embark-on-the-splendorquest\/","url_meta":{"origin":977,"position":1},"title":"My BloodhoundBlog wish list as we embark on the SplendorQuest","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"We're going to fire up SplendorQuest.com full-bore this week. 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