[quote=sdrealtor]I dont care what you think Rt 66. My customers do not come from this website. In over 3 years posting on this site, I have been involved in two real estate transactions with pigg posters. The irony is that both were clients before we even realized who each other was. In the first case through the course of a thread we realized who each other was. I sold his house and encouraged him to rent for a year or two and then re-evaluate. After a few months renting (two horrible rentals) he had enough and wanted to find a home. We found him a great home at a great price. I hear from him often and he says its the best house he ever lived in among many.
In the 2nd case, it was a short sale referred to my by an attorney. I had the property listed and we were negotiating with the lender for about a month. One day while talking to that poster out of nowhere he/she asked if I was sdrealtor on piggington. He/she figured it out based upon our conversations and I never would have even known they were a piggington regular.
I have provided information and guidance to hundreds of pigg posters over the years and have never solicited a single person.
I read the same things you do but I also read the other side. I sit in the middle and combine all I read with what I see. I am here for balance. When i came here there was none and I worked hard to make this a more balanced and beneficial place. Over time it has become more balanced but we still obviously have our lunatic fringe.[/quote]
You are obviously a smart guy so I know you know that putting your name out there day in day out could pay dividends for years to come.
This is a social RE forum and yet you (who claim you are not here fishing) sign-up with a user name of SDRealtor? Not hard to miss the implications there.
Why do we not see others skirting advertising etiquette and picking user names like:
BobTheCheapElectrician
DansHouseOfCarpet
HomeInspectorMike
Why not? Because it’s shameless and everyone sees it for what it is, advertising your job/services on a social forum. Too tacky for most.
Maybe what you say is true but your chosen user name gives me doubts and the fact that just 1 customer gleaned from this forum could easily net you $30k or whatever throws further doubt on the motive behind your efforts to discredit the negative data flooding our senses every day.
