{"id":9849,"date":"2009-09-25T08:17:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T15:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9849"},"modified":"2009-09-25T08:17:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T15:17:29","slug":"three-new-dogs-for-the-bloodhound-pack-damon-chetson-robert-worthington-and-greg-dallaire-and-a-reminder-about-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9849\/three-new-dogs-for-the-bloodhound-pack-damon-chetson-robert-worthington-and-greg-dallaire-and-a-reminder-about-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Three new dogs for the Bloodhound pack — Damon Chetson, Robert Worthington and Greg Dallaire — and a reminder about transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I had mail from a Realtor who had proposed the idea of custom yard signs to a listing prospect. The client’s eyes lit up, and he saw not only the immediate possibilities but the future portents. Here’s what the Realtor had to say about it all:<\/p>\n

One thing I found so interesting is that any time you mention custom signs, all the agents who don’t use them make comments about how worthless they are, but this guy, the client, the seller, got it immediately. Got the reason for it, could see how it would stop traffic, understood it all — without me selling him on it. <\/p>\n

Funny how you have to sell agents on stuff that would make perfect sense to their own clients.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’re adding three new contributors today. Two of them are envelope-pushing Realtors, but one is a certified, bonafied real estate client, an educated consumer who can tell a hawk from a handsaw — and who isn’t shy about speaking his mind about the utility of either one.<\/p>\n

That consumer is Damon Chetson, a BloodhoundRealty.com client from way back and a long-time contributor to our comments threads. Damon is a newly-minted criminal defense attorney in Cary, NC, but he will be talking to us here about how he perceives the real estate industry as an informed outsider.<\/p>\n

Robert Worthington is another frequent BloodhoundBlog commenter. He’s a hard-charging Realtor in Manitowoc, WI, and he spends all of his spare time looking for technobabble bubbles to burst.<\/p>\n

Greg Dallaire is another Wisconsin Realtor, working out of Green Bay. Not only does he have a first name that rings sweetly to my ears, he sings a song very dear to my own heart: “I’m passionate about implementing technology into my business to increase productivity, improve efficiency, and increase profitability.”<\/p>\n

As you might have inferred from my absences, punctuated by brief bursts of brevity — the wit of soul — I’m a busy boy. I’m about to become a busier boy, because I want to undertake a task for the ages. In the mean time, this was my response to the email cited above:<\/p>\n

The actual message of Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I had mail from a Realtor who had proposed the idea of custom yard signs to a listing prospect. The client’s eyes lit up, and he saw not only the immediate possibilities but the future portents. 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