Thank you for the compliment. I think the system sucks and would love to see it changed. I would be more tahn happy to work for lower fees if there was more volume. If clients would agree to pay me $100/hour for my time which I believe is fair, i would do cartwheels. I bust my tail for clients for months only to have them walk into an open house and buy something for the agent thinking the listing agent will give them a better deal (which they usually dont as their fiduciary responsibility is to the seller). Last year I had clients whose house I sold a few years back and got them a great property below market before it went on the market through my network call me to list their home. We were good friends and they constantly told me I had changed their lives for the better financially as well as putting them in a house they loved on a street they loved living on in a neighborhood they never would have known about or considered. Before I got there, a neighbor whispered in their ear that they needed the marketing muscle of some slimy Realtor that advertises how great they are, they called them and the house was listed with another agent an hour before our appointment. For the record, he let them overprice their home which sat on the market and cost them $50K.
Intelligent people make incredibly bad RE decisions all the time. I get great personal satisifaction when I can truly help someone achieve something that makes a difference in their life and their families life. I take pride in my work and always try to put my clients best interests first. For this, I and the rest of my colleagues deal with the majority of clients that are disingenuous, have no loyalty to us and end up shooting themselves in the foot. When it works, its a great business but most of the time it’s pretty cut throat and brutal.
