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I’ve posted about this several times, exploring:
· The agency-risk problem (Who works for whom?
· The threat of by-owner-via-internet market emergence (Brokerage’s baby bang,
· The auto-valuation (The valbots are coming:
Additionally, I’d particularly like to call your attention to a demographic-economic-political hypothesis:
Are Democrats zoning themselves to a structural electoral minority?
The reasoning behind this is in Blue in the states? .
I’ve posted about this several times, exploring:
? The agency-risk problem (Who works for whom?
? The threat of by-owner-via-internet market emergence (Brokerage’s baby bang,
? The auto-valuation (The valbots are coming:
Additionally, I’d particularly like to call your attention to a demographic-economic-political hypothesis:
Are Democrats zoning themselves to a structural electoral minority?
The reasoning behind this is in Blue in the states? .
The posts may be found at http://www.affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/index.html, for the following dates:
3/1 (Blue in the States)
2/28 (Auto-valuation)
1/18 (Brokerage’s baby bang)
2/20/05 (Who works for whom?)
The posts may be found at http://www.affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/index.html, for the following dates:
3/1 (Blue in the States)
2/28 (Auto-valuation)
1/18 (Brokerage’s baby bang)
2/20/05 (Who works for whom?)
Mr. Smith -
1) Your link with a superfluous comma appended goes 404. You won’t get a lot of readers that way.
2) Correlation is not causation. Correlation is not causation. Correlation is not causation. Do I make myself clear?
Mr. Smith -
1) Your link with a superfluous comma appended goes 404. You won’t get a lot of readers that way.
2) Correlation is not causation. Correlation is not causation. Correlation is not causation. Do I make myself clear?
Somehow I get the feeling that I may be stepping out in front of an 18 wheeler on a foggy night but I think a pretty much one sided slam on my industry deserves comment.
I am one of the many that entered real estate during the boom of the last few years. It is unfortunate that the barriers to entry are so low that just about anyone can enter the industry. Those that fail (and are bound to) give the rest of us who work (by choice) six or seven days a week a bad name. I entered real estate armed with an MBA, previous construction and management experience, studied which firm (Prudential Northwest Properties) was the best fit for me and went at it full time.
A Realtor that averages 3.3 transactions a year is not a happy Realtor in most markets! We don’t get paid until the transaction closes so it is entirely possible to invest the 40 hrs cited in the article or realistically even more time, and not get a dime in return for the time or expense of the work involved. A good Realtor can hold a doomed transaction together (providing it should be saved) but there are times when deals just die.
Our industry is evolving. We work for a full service brokerage but are not running scared with the likes of Zillow or other market entrants. Consumers have a choice and they should make informed choices based on their needs. We’re all free to defend ourselves in court and pull out our own rotted teeth. It may work for some but not everyone.
We pride ourselves on personal professional service. That’s something that the discount brokers and websites cannot or chose not to provide. There’s nothing wrong with that. You can get clothes at Target or Nordstrom and people have distinct reasons for choosing which one to patronize.
Charles Turner
http://www.PortlandRealEstateBlog.com
Somehow I get the feeling that I may be stepping out in front of an 18 wheeler on a foggy night but I think a pretty much one sided slam on my industry deserves comment.
I am one of the many that entered real estate during the boom of the last few years. It is unfortunate that the barriers to entry are so low that just about anyone can enter the industry. Those that fail (and are bound to) give the rest of us who work (by choice) six or seven days a week a bad name. I entered real estate armed with an MBA, previous construction and management experience, studied which firm (Prudential Northwest Properties) was the best fit for me and went at it full time.
A Realtor that averages 3.3 transactions a year is not a happy Realtor in most markets! We don’t get paid until the transaction closes so it is entirely possible to invest the 40 hrs cited in the article or realistically even more time, and not get a dime in return for the time or expense of the work involved. A good Realtor can hold a doomed transaction together (providing it should be saved) but there are times when deals just die.
Our industry is evolving. We work for a full service brokerage but are not running scared with the likes of Zillow or other market entrants. Consumers have a choice and they should make informed choices based on their needs. We’re all free to defend ourselves in court and pull out our own rotted teeth. It may work for some but not everyone.
We pride ourselves on personal professional service. That’s something that the discount brokers and websites cannot or chose not to provide. There’s nothing wrong with that. You can get clothes at Target or Nordstrom and people have distinct reasons for choosing which one to patronize.
Charles Turner
http://www.PortlandRealEstateBlog.com