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  • January 26, 2008 at 3:05 PM #143187
    SD Realtor
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    heheheheh… sorry if it seemed offensive. Rereading it yeah it did sound that way. I guess something that is kind of everyday to me (the fact that realtors market at banks) kind of did irk me when I see a post expressing surprise at the occurrence. Sorry about that.

    No it wasn’t me…. but honestly, if a bank manager did allow me to market inside a bank, I would do it in a heartbeat. I wouldn’t spend time in there handing out cookies as I simply don’t have the time to do that, but I would print up flyers and have then in some stands.

    SD Realtor

    January 26, 2008 at 3:52 PM #143536
    NotCranky
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    “I think it will be interesting to see the various marketing techniques desparate realtors come up with as the market continues its downturn.”

    It is a buyer’s market in at least one sense, they can get around 2/3 of the commission rebated. That plus cookies is a pretty good deal, especially if it comes with solid RE advice too.

    How much money does that work out to? I would say each transaction to the type of client that would merit a 2/3 rebate takes about 40 hours w/o a transaction coordinator. Not bad. http://www.fsboprimer.com/buyersagents2.html

    January 26, 2008 at 3:52 PM #143434
    NotCranky
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    “I think it will be interesting to see the various marketing techniques desparate realtors come up with as the market continues its downturn.”

    It is a buyer’s market in at least one sense, they can get around 2/3 of the commission rebated. That plus cookies is a pretty good deal, especially if it comes with solid RE advice too.

    How much money does that work out to? I would say each transaction to the type of client that would merit a 2/3 rebate takes about 40 hours w/o a transaction coordinator. Not bad. http://www.fsboprimer.com/buyersagents2.html

    January 26, 2008 at 3:52 PM #143197
    NotCranky
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    “I think it will be interesting to see the various marketing techniques desparate realtors come up with as the market continues its downturn.”

    It is a buyer’s market in at least one sense, they can get around 2/3 of the commission rebated. That plus cookies is a pretty good deal, especially if it comes with solid RE advice too.

    How much money does that work out to? I would say each transaction to the type of client that would merit a 2/3 rebate takes about 40 hours w/o a transaction coordinator. Not bad. http://www.fsboprimer.com/buyersagents2.html

    January 26, 2008 at 3:52 PM #143441
    NotCranky
    Participant

    “I think it will be interesting to see the various marketing techniques desparate realtors come up with as the market continues its downturn.”

    It is a buyer’s market in at least one sense, they can get around 2/3 of the commission rebated. That plus cookies is a pretty good deal, especially if it comes with solid RE advice too.

    How much money does that work out to? I would say each transaction to the type of client that would merit a 2/3 rebate takes about 40 hours w/o a transaction coordinator. Not bad. http://www.fsboprimer.com/buyersagents2.html

    January 26, 2008 at 3:52 PM #143466
    NotCranky
    Participant

    “I think it will be interesting to see the various marketing techniques desparate realtors come up with as the market continues its downturn.”

    It is a buyer’s market in at least one sense, they can get around 2/3 of the commission rebated. That plus cookies is a pretty good deal, especially if it comes with solid RE advice too.

    How much money does that work out to? I would say each transaction to the type of client that would merit a 2/3 rebate takes about 40 hours w/o a transaction coordinator. Not bad. http://www.fsboprimer.com/buyersagents2.html

    January 26, 2008 at 4:13 PM #143541
    SD Realtor
    Participant

    Look guys,

    I think my defense mechanism kicked in for a justified reason. First off, I think the post was made in the same nature as some of the, “look what these realtors are stooping to now” sort of postings. In and off itself that is fine.

    However when one thinks about it, doesn’t it make perfect sense? I don’t know how many people that post here are in sales. I would assume not many of you. Me, I am an engineer but doing the real estate brokerage for a few years now has exposed me to things I would have never seen or thought of.

    Take a guy like Gary Kent. Do you think he made all his money sitting in his office doing floor time? People here love to bang the neighborhood expert that comes and knocks on his door. You think that guy would get more business sitting at his local Prudential office waiting for you to come in? The top producers in real estate invariably are the men and women who market themselves, who bust ass and get after it. You see what I am saying? No matter what your profession is, if you wait for the nugget to find you then you will ALWAYS be no more then someone who will never be at the top.

    As an engineer I used to get very irritated with people who didn’t grok things quickly. If it was intuitive to me why wouldn’t it be intuitive to anyone. After all I am not an Einstein by any means. I took many a sideways glance at my buddys test in some of my upper level classes at UCSD. Nonetheless every time I think I have outgrown that behavior, it rears it’s ugly head every now and then. In this case I guess I don’t understand the reasoning why people post about surprising new ways they see realtors trying to market themselves.

    After all they are sales people right?

    SD Realtor

    January 26, 2008 at 4:13 PM #143203
    SD Realtor
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    Look guys,

    I think my defense mechanism kicked in for a justified reason. First off, I think the post was made in the same nature as some of the, “look what these realtors are stooping to now” sort of postings. In and off itself that is fine.

    However when one thinks about it, doesn’t it make perfect sense? I don’t know how many people that post here are in sales. I would assume not many of you. Me, I am an engineer but doing the real estate brokerage for a few years now has exposed me to things I would have never seen or thought of.

    Take a guy like Gary Kent. Do you think he made all his money sitting in his office doing floor time? People here love to bang the neighborhood expert that comes and knocks on his door. You think that guy would get more business sitting at his local Prudential office waiting for you to come in? The top producers in real estate invariably are the men and women who market themselves, who bust ass and get after it. You see what I am saying? No matter what your profession is, if you wait for the nugget to find you then you will ALWAYS be no more then someone who will never be at the top.

    As an engineer I used to get very irritated with people who didn’t grok things quickly. If it was intuitive to me why wouldn’t it be intuitive to anyone. After all I am not an Einstein by any means. I took many a sideways glance at my buddys test in some of my upper level classes at UCSD. Nonetheless every time I think I have outgrown that behavior, it rears it’s ugly head every now and then. In this case I guess I don’t understand the reasoning why people post about surprising new ways they see realtors trying to market themselves.

    After all they are sales people right?

    SD Realtor

    January 26, 2008 at 4:13 PM #143471
    SD Realtor
    Participant

    Look guys,

    I think my defense mechanism kicked in for a justified reason. First off, I think the post was made in the same nature as some of the, “look what these realtors are stooping to now” sort of postings. In and off itself that is fine.

    However when one thinks about it, doesn’t it make perfect sense? I don’t know how many people that post here are in sales. I would assume not many of you. Me, I am an engineer but doing the real estate brokerage for a few years now has exposed me to things I would have never seen or thought of.

    Take a guy like Gary Kent. Do you think he made all his money sitting in his office doing floor time? People here love to bang the neighborhood expert that comes and knocks on his door. You think that guy would get more business sitting at his local Prudential office waiting for you to come in? The top producers in real estate invariably are the men and women who market themselves, who bust ass and get after it. You see what I am saying? No matter what your profession is, if you wait for the nugget to find you then you will ALWAYS be no more then someone who will never be at the top.

    As an engineer I used to get very irritated with people who didn’t grok things quickly. If it was intuitive to me why wouldn’t it be intuitive to anyone. After all I am not an Einstein by any means. I took many a sideways glance at my buddys test in some of my upper level classes at UCSD. Nonetheless every time I think I have outgrown that behavior, it rears it’s ugly head every now and then. In this case I guess I don’t understand the reasoning why people post about surprising new ways they see realtors trying to market themselves.

    After all they are sales people right?

    SD Realtor

    January 26, 2008 at 4:13 PM #143446
    SD Realtor
    Participant

    Look guys,

    I think my defense mechanism kicked in for a justified reason. First off, I think the post was made in the same nature as some of the, “look what these realtors are stooping to now” sort of postings. In and off itself that is fine.

    However when one thinks about it, doesn’t it make perfect sense? I don’t know how many people that post here are in sales. I would assume not many of you. Me, I am an engineer but doing the real estate brokerage for a few years now has exposed me to things I would have never seen or thought of.

    Take a guy like Gary Kent. Do you think he made all his money sitting in his office doing floor time? People here love to bang the neighborhood expert that comes and knocks on his door. You think that guy would get more business sitting at his local Prudential office waiting for you to come in? The top producers in real estate invariably are the men and women who market themselves, who bust ass and get after it. You see what I am saying? No matter what your profession is, if you wait for the nugget to find you then you will ALWAYS be no more then someone who will never be at the top.

    As an engineer I used to get very irritated with people who didn’t grok things quickly. If it was intuitive to me why wouldn’t it be intuitive to anyone. After all I am not an Einstein by any means. I took many a sideways glance at my buddys test in some of my upper level classes at UCSD. Nonetheless every time I think I have outgrown that behavior, it rears it’s ugly head every now and then. In this case I guess I don’t understand the reasoning why people post about surprising new ways they see realtors trying to market themselves.

    After all they are sales people right?

    SD Realtor

    January 26, 2008 at 4:13 PM #143439
    SD Realtor
    Participant

    Look guys,

    I think my defense mechanism kicked in for a justified reason. First off, I think the post was made in the same nature as some of the, “look what these realtors are stooping to now” sort of postings. In and off itself that is fine.

    However when one thinks about it, doesn’t it make perfect sense? I don’t know how many people that post here are in sales. I would assume not many of you. Me, I am an engineer but doing the real estate brokerage for a few years now has exposed me to things I would have never seen or thought of.

    Take a guy like Gary Kent. Do you think he made all his money sitting in his office doing floor time? People here love to bang the neighborhood expert that comes and knocks on his door. You think that guy would get more business sitting at his local Prudential office waiting for you to come in? The top producers in real estate invariably are the men and women who market themselves, who bust ass and get after it. You see what I am saying? No matter what your profession is, if you wait for the nugget to find you then you will ALWAYS be no more then someone who will never be at the top.

    As an engineer I used to get very irritated with people who didn’t grok things quickly. If it was intuitive to me why wouldn’t it be intuitive to anyone. After all I am not an Einstein by any means. I took many a sideways glance at my buddys test in some of my upper level classes at UCSD. Nonetheless every time I think I have outgrown that behavior, it rears it’s ugly head every now and then. In this case I guess I don’t understand the reasoning why people post about surprising new ways they see realtors trying to market themselves.

    After all they are sales people right?

    SD Realtor

    January 26, 2008 at 5:37 PM #143222
    ucodegen
    Participant

    The only thing that makes me curious about a Prudential Realtor located in a BofA is that both BofA and Prudential have competing interests. Or at least I thought they were competing. There may be an ‘arrangement’ between the two that does not show up anywhere.

    BofA
    Standard banking.
    Investments (Bank of America Investment Services – used to be Quick and Reilly).
    Insurance
    Commercial and Residential Loans

    Prudential
    Investments
    Insurance
    Commercial and Residential Loans
    RE brokerage arm.

    Kind of surprised that the Prudential guy would be inside a BofA considering how much the two compete with each other on products.

    January 26, 2008 at 5:37 PM #143459
    ucodegen
    Participant

    The only thing that makes me curious about a Prudential Realtor located in a BofA is that both BofA and Prudential have competing interests. Or at least I thought they were competing. There may be an ‘arrangement’ between the two that does not show up anywhere.

    BofA
    Standard banking.
    Investments (Bank of America Investment Services – used to be Quick and Reilly).
    Insurance
    Commercial and Residential Loans

    Prudential
    Investments
    Insurance
    Commercial and Residential Loans
    RE brokerage arm.

    Kind of surprised that the Prudential guy would be inside a BofA considering how much the two compete with each other on products.

    January 26, 2008 at 5:37 PM #143467
    ucodegen
    Participant

    The only thing that makes me curious about a Prudential Realtor located in a BofA is that both BofA and Prudential have competing interests. Or at least I thought they were competing. There may be an ‘arrangement’ between the two that does not show up anywhere.

    BofA
    Standard banking.
    Investments (Bank of America Investment Services – used to be Quick and Reilly).
    Insurance
    Commercial and Residential Loans

    Prudential
    Investments
    Insurance
    Commercial and Residential Loans
    RE brokerage arm.

    Kind of surprised that the Prudential guy would be inside a BofA considering how much the two compete with each other on products.

    January 26, 2008 at 5:37 PM #143562
    ucodegen
    Participant

    The only thing that makes me curious about a Prudential Realtor located in a BofA is that both BofA and Prudential have competing interests. Or at least I thought they were competing. There may be an ‘arrangement’ between the two that does not show up anywhere.

    BofA
    Standard banking.
    Investments (Bank of America Investment Services – used to be Quick and Reilly).
    Insurance
    Commercial and Residential Loans

    Prudential
    Investments
    Insurance
    Commercial and Residential Loans
    RE brokerage arm.

    Kind of surprised that the Prudential guy would be inside a BofA considering how much the two compete with each other on products.

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