I have been on the sidelines. If I decided to break my anonymity sdr or SDR could prove it. Now honestly that wasn’t a big change for me because I was never big….but I did stop selling houses, curse out a few mortgage brokers and hang it up. Obviously, I am trying hard to believe in karma.
I don’t hate the agents or brokers. How many people would quit their job because the nature of the game changed radically? Besides that people didn’t give high ratings to real estate types when I got my license in 1998 and they never will. My instructor for the basic licensing requirement brought a chart with relative respect by trade or profession. RE people were right there with used car salesmen.
My experience also proves that very few people would have listened to someone giving warning. I actually had people call on referral and when I told them it wasn’t a good time to think about SD homes they told me “what the hell kind of real estate guy are you anyway”. I think they know now.
Now I get frequent calls from people who are screwed and want to know what to do. I feel bad for them and offer whatever I can ,which is basically nothing. They do confirm what the bad boys on this blog are saying about being greedy and stupid with the equity in their houses if they ever had it. Some of them were on easy street for having bought in the 90’s too.
