OT-Funniest Short sale tale to date

[scaredyclassic]

it is easy to mix things up, even for a smart person…. I remember being in a mock trial in school. i played the defendant. the defendant worked for a company called “sellers and buyers real estate”.

In practice sessions, i kept messing up and getting it backwards, callling it ‘buyers and Sellers real estate”. my partner kept barking at me to get it right. sellers and buyers, not buyers and sellers. still, i kept screwing it up…Then, in the actual competition, the student lawyer for the other side asked me if i worked for “buyers and sellers real estate”. aha! I said “no”. this completely threw him off his game and you could see him starting to panic, like, what the f*ck do I do now?” Badgering me that i did actually work for buyers and sellers, pointing to the fact pattern, but I was just smug, kept with my “nope”…. He was asking the judge for help but no help was forthcoming. he got it backwards.

smart guy, too. this was all very formal, in a federal courthouse…funny…the details do matter in life; like getting the name or address correct……

[SD Realtor]

“A college degree is not necessary or even useful for a RE salesperson or broker job. Knowledge and experience are the only things that are useful.”

If that is what your expectations are for your agent then that is what you will get. By FAR and I mean VERY FAR, I find that the more educated an agent is, the more competent they are. If you think that your agent not understanding economics, or accounting, or how the bond markets affect interest rates, or how peripheral activities around the world may indeed affect interest rates, then you are being quite short sighted.

Real estate is absolutely not rocket science and education is not required at all. Which is precisely why most agents are idiots and why most people believe agents are useless.

This is exactly what the majority of agents who had plenty of knowledge and knew the areas that they worked in 2004 were telling clients, “Go buy, real estate always goes up!”

[SD Realtor]

“A college degree is not necessary or even useful for a RE salesperson or broker job. Knowledge and experience are the only things that are useful.”

If that is what your expectations are for your agent then that is what you will get. By FAR and I mean VERY FAR, I find that the more educated an agent is, the more competent they are. If you think that your agent not understanding economics, or accounting, or how the bond markets affect interest rates, or how peripheral activities around the world may indeed affect interest rates, then you are being quite short sighted.

Real estate is absolutely not rocket science and education is not required at all. Which is precisely why most agents are idiots and why most people believe agents are useless.

This is exactly what the majority of agents who had plenty of knowledge and knew the areas that they worked in 2004 were telling clients, “Go buy, real estate always goes up!”

[SD Realtor]

“A college degree is not necessary or even useful for a RE salesperson or broker job. Knowledge and experience are the only things that are useful.”

If that is what your expectations are for your agent then that is what you will get. By FAR and I mean VERY FAR, I find that the more educated an agent is, the more competent they are. If you think that your agent not understanding economics, or accounting, or how the bond markets affect interest rates, or how peripheral activities around the world may indeed affect interest rates, then you are being quite short sighted.

Real estate is absolutely not rocket science and education is not required at all. Which is precisely why most agents are idiots and why most people believe agents are useless.

This is exactly what the majority of agents who had plenty of knowledge and knew the areas that they worked in 2004 were telling clients, “Go buy, real estate always goes up!”

[SD Realtor]

“A college degree is not necessary or even useful for a RE salesperson or broker job. Knowledge and experience are the only things that are useful.”

If that is what your expectations are for your agent then that is what you will get. By FAR and I mean VERY FAR, I find that the more educated an agent is, the more competent they are. If you think that your agent not understanding economics, or accounting, or how the bond markets affect interest rates, or how peripheral activities around the world may indeed affect interest rates, then you are being quite short sighted.

Real estate is absolutely not rocket science and education is not required at all. Which is precisely why most agents are idiots and why most people believe agents are useless.

This is exactly what the majority of agents who had plenty of knowledge and knew the areas that they worked in 2004 were telling clients, “Go buy, real estate always goes up!”

[SD Realtor]

“A college degree is not necessary or even useful for a RE salesperson or broker job. Knowledge and experience are the only things that are useful.”

If that is what your expectations are for your agent then that is what you will get. By FAR and I mean VERY FAR, I find that the more educated an agent is, the more competent they are. If you think that your agent not understanding economics, or accounting, or how the bond markets affect interest rates, or how peripheral activities around the world may indeed affect interest rates, then you are being quite short sighted.

Real estate is absolutely not rocket science and education is not required at all. Which is precisely why most agents are idiots and why most people believe agents are useless.

This is exactly what the majority of agents who had plenty of knowledge and knew the areas that they worked in 2004 were telling clients, “Go buy, real estate always goes up!”

[bearishgurl]

[quote=SD Realtor]…This is exactly what the majority of agents who had plenty of knowledge and knew the areas that they worked in 2004 were telling clients, “Go buy, real estate always goes up!”[/quote]

SDR, are you saying here that the “highly-educated” agents didn’t make any sales on the selling end from 2004 to 2007 (“bubble-era” period) because they were telling all their potential buyer-clients NOT to purchase RE … that it was due for a “crash?” And that they *knowingly* listed and sold RE during this period that wasn’t even worth 60% of what the buyers were paying for it??

[bearishgurl]

[quote=SD Realtor]…This is exactly what the majority of agents who had plenty of knowledge and knew the areas that they worked in 2004 were telling clients, “Go buy, real estate always goes up!”[/quote]

SDR, are you saying here that the “highly-educated” agents didn’t make any sales on the selling end from 2004 to 2007 (“bubble-era” period) because they were telling all their potential buyer-clients NOT to purchase RE … that it was due for a “crash?” And that they *knowingly* listed and sold RE during this period that wasn’t even worth 60% of what the buyers were paying for it??

[bearishgurl]

[quote=SD Realtor]…This is exactly what the majority of agents who had plenty of knowledge and knew the areas that they worked in 2004 were telling clients, “Go buy, real estate always goes up!”[/quote]

SDR, are you saying here that the “highly-educated” agents didn’t make any sales on the selling end from 2004 to 2007 (“bubble-era” period) because they were telling all their potential buyer-clients NOT to purchase RE … that it was due for a “crash?” And that they *knowingly* listed and sold RE during this period that wasn’t even worth 60% of what the buyers were paying for it??

[bearishgurl]

[quote=SD Realtor]…This is exactly what the majority of agents who had plenty of knowledge and knew the areas that they worked in 2004 were telling clients, “Go buy, real estate always goes up!”[/quote]

SDR, are you saying here that the “highly-educated” agents didn’t make any sales on the selling end from 2004 to 2007 (“bubble-era” period) because they were telling all their potential buyer-clients NOT to purchase RE … that it was due for a “crash?” And that they *knowingly* listed and sold RE during this period that wasn’t even worth 60% of what the buyers were paying for it??

[bearishgurl]

[quote=SD Realtor]…This is exactly what the majority of agents who had plenty of knowledge and knew the areas that they worked in 2004 were telling clients, “Go buy, real estate always goes up!”[/quote]

SDR, are you saying here that the “highly-educated” agents didn’t make any sales on the selling end from 2004 to 2007 (“bubble-era” period) because they were telling all their potential buyer-clients NOT to purchase RE … that it was due for a “crash?” And that they *knowingly* listed and sold RE during this period that wasn’t even worth 60% of what the buyers were paying for it??

[SD Realtor]

I quoted what you said because it was an ignorant statement. I think any astute buyer or seller would go out of the way to select an agent that brings more to the table because the entry level requirements to become licensed are so easy. Thus you get a lot of boneheads in the industry. If that is all you want in an agent then usually that is all you get. If you are having trouble comprehending what I wrote then quote it and I will explain it better so you can understand and try to divert away from your other statement.

[SD Realtor]

I quoted what you said because it was an ignorant statement. I think any astute buyer or seller would go out of the way to select an agent that brings more to the table because the entry level requirements to become licensed are so easy. Thus you get a lot of boneheads in the industry. If that is all you want in an agent then usually that is all you get. If you are having trouble comprehending what I wrote then quote it and I will explain it better so you can understand and try to divert away from your other statement.

[SD Realtor]

I quoted what you said because it was an ignorant statement. I think any astute buyer or seller would go out of the way to select an agent that brings more to the table because the entry level requirements to become licensed are so easy. Thus you get a lot of boneheads in the industry. If that is all you want in an agent then usually that is all you get. If you are having trouble comprehending what I wrote then quote it and I will explain it better so you can understand and try to divert away from your other statement.

[SD Realtor]

I quoted what you said because it was an ignorant statement. I think any astute buyer or seller would go out of the way to select an agent that brings more to the table because the entry level requirements to become licensed are so easy. Thus you get a lot of boneheads in the industry. If that is all you want in an agent then usually that is all you get. If you are having trouble comprehending what I wrote then quote it and I will explain it better so you can understand and try to divert away from your other statement.

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