Comments on: Super-Freaky: Intellectual dishonesty or disingenuous immorality?

By: ¤ How to Interview a Realtor: Top 4 Questions to Ask ¤

¤ How to Interview a Realtor: Top 4 Questions to Ask ¤ — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:48:44 +0000

[...] Super-Freaky: Intellectual dishonesty or disingenuous immorality … [...]

By: Tor Slinning

Tor Slinning — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:27:55 +0000

I think we all realize that the internet has revolutionized the way people search for homes, and market their homes for sale. I don’t think anyone ever talks about the value that a realtor can bring to a negotiation, or even handling situations gingerly that can potentially blow up in everyones face.

I don’t know how many times I’ve defused explosive situations out of the 150 homes that I’ve sold, but it definitely worth the commissions that I’ve earned. I even credit my buyers half my commission in the process! I always get thanked, but most importantly, I know my clients did the absolute best in the transaction.

These idiots – umm – economists don’t take any of this into account, because they simply can’t see the service that’s being offered by a professional agent.

-Tor

By: sell and rent back

sell and rent back — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:14:52 +0000

Well it’s certainly a good way of stirring up publicity and interest. Although it is a somewhat crude comparison

By: Marcia Bell

Marcia Bell — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:36:07 +0000

Hilarious, pimp those properties. Its true, one cannot exist without the other, unless you’re a triple threat… However, as always, you get what your pay for, the man who acts as his own lawyer has a fool as a client, yada, yada. Cheap ‘tricks’, watch out!

good work,
mb

By: Leanne Finlay

Leanne Finlay — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:58:28 +0000

Well, pimps and prostitutes are an age-old business, having success for centuries. I guess it’s a fair business model .

By: David Losh

David Losh — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:36:01 +0000

To continue my theme of the big bad brokerages, wouldn’t the brokerage technically be the pimps?

By: Leanne Finlay

Leanne Finlay — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:10:07 +0000

Well, why don’t we write a book? We can call it 53-Yr Old Realtor Prostitutes Get Even … or something like that!

By: San Antonio Real Estate

San Antonio Real Estate — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:28:40 +0000

Maybe the author should have used himself as the example. Writing a book like that I feel is no different than using the examples the author did. Anything to sell.

By: Marlow Harris

Marlow Harris — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:35:23 +0000

Ed, both stock brokerages and commercial real estate agencies are male-dominated fields. Only in residential real estate do women outnumber men. And in most other high-ticket items sales, men dominate the field. It's just this particular field of residential real estate that is getting dumped on. Sexist by design? Perhaps not. But the result is the same. (Also, there really isn't much of a "churn rate" with agents, as most people are pretty happy with their services. An independent survey reports that 84% of home buyers would use the same Realtor again.)

By: Mack McCoy

Mack McCoy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:49:48 +0000

We have just lived through an age in which economists were our most influential moral philosophers. The results haven’t been great. “The main moral compass we now have is a thin and degraded notion of economic welfare, measured in terms of quantity of goods,” Robert Skidelsky writes. Lately we’ve been failing even by that impoverished measure. The time certainly seems ripe for an overthrow of the economists.

Justin Fox in the New York Times Book Review.
I think that says it all.
Goodbye, freaks.