If you go to activerain.com and read this guy’s blog, you can see how cheeseball he is. “Never does open houses” and “don’t call me after 8” are examples how a Realtor(R) feels like he’s in the center of the game. He even says he expects buyers to pay the difference whenever he takes them to a house with a lower buyers %. He even says to his client “go ahead and host your open house–if you find a buyer who’s not represented, i’ll even give you a discount. And the client is thrilled!” He tells other realtors how to make sure clients sign the agreement before you go too far. He brags on how many listings he has, which gives further evidence that when you have an exclusive relationship with sellers, it doesn’t really matter how long it takes to sell.
What’s even more surprising is all the comments from other realtors applauding his site.
This is orthagonal to service and quality. I’m talking about attitude. This will go away once you get rid of the built in commissions. Arrogance persists when you have guarantees of income up-front.
Yes, I know everyone is not like this. The honest folks exist, but they are hard to discover, esp. since they don’t want to divulge their “trade secrets” online (understandable).
