Realtors are getting desperate

[Wickedheart]

The realtor who’s going door to door and passing out his calendar each month is the one who’s doing most of the selling here in Serra Mesa. If I had a house to sell I’d hire him in a heartbeat.

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I put the local realtors’ monthly calendars/newsletters/etc. the same place I put all the little tiny plastic bags with two pieces of gravel and some undocumented maid’s business card:

The garbage can

Don’t do it guys and gals (go door to door, that is)…it’s already humiliating enough isn’t it? Being wrong that there was “no bubble”? Being wrong that your client would “simply be able to re-finance before the mortgage re-set”?

How embarrassing it must be for you!?!?! Stoopid f*&%ers…who knew it was actually difficult to earn six-figures (let alone 5 for many of you;) Good night and “happy knocking” OR better yet…”good luck with all that”;)!

[mixxalot]

Realtor Arrogance

I just dont see them being desperate yet. Yesterday, I went to an open house at Standard Pacific in Santee and the lamo sales people did not seem eager to sell even with the lame free plasma tv deal to buy an overpriced 570k home that sells for 200k in Texas. At this point, if it drops by end of next year I can buy here else yeehaw we go.

[CMcG]

Wickedheart–I’m with you. The same broker has been “farming” (is that the correct term?) my dad’s neighborhood for at least 25 years. As far as I know, she doesn’t even ring the doorbell. She comes around maybe three-four times a year and simply leaves a small pumpkin, a small Christmas tree (whatever the season) and a notepad or magnet with her name on it. As my dad’s neighbors die off, I notice their heirs use this broker. I will, too. She knows the neighborhood.

[Pasadena Broker]

“How embarrassing it must be for you!?!?! Stoopid f*&%ers…who knew it was actually difficult to earn six-figures (let alone 5 for many of you;) Good night and “happy knocking” OR better yet…”good luck with all that”;)!”

Seems as if this has struck a nerve with you.

Looks like you’ve ‘outed’ your position on how you feel about all of us, which is too bad since it puts a crimp on any meaningful or insightful discussion which all the other posters seems to be engaged in.

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my position has been out for a long time

[waiting hawk]

Some of my family are realtors and I seen recently a realtor sign up his kid for free lunch program. It has been weighing on my mind. I want the market to crash and not to see people I know get hurt. Never happen but I am sad to see nice people get hurt. I’m not talking about the 22 year old realtor but the realtors that have seen multiple downturns that have their house listed for sale that they have lived in for a decade (I know of one).

[JWM in SD]

Waiting Hawk, no one really wants people to get hurt, but I have to say something here to give some context to this. Fort the past decade of so I have seen my efforts to work hard and get ahead by being forthright and smart continuously undermined with increasingly higher degrees of uncertainty about job stability…yet I continue to pay a high proportion of my income for taxes to support what exactly?? I got laid off twice in one year not too long ago. Nobody had sympathy for me…nobody? No safety net other than the one I had created for myself and it wasn’t enough. If I get laid off now, no one will have much sympathy either. I’m seeing the odds of that kind of uncertainty increasing as a direct result of cheap money policies and easy money seekers. Those easy money seekers are rampant here in SoCal and many of them will try to disguise themselves as “self-employed”..whatever. I saw it the first time I got the plane from Chicago. It was palpable here. Median income way too low and way too many Beemers and MBZs buzzing around on the freeways heading for way too many stucco spanish tiled roofs that cost north of $700K.

If you really want to get your blood boiling, go read the latest story on Calculated Risk about the gov pensioner couple who get to retire with 90% of pay. What would someone in the real have save in order to have something equivalent???

Something has to give soon. I’m fucking tired of paying so much in taxes for NOTHING!!!

[SD Realtor]

Don’t worry JWM… In April of 2009 you will be paying higher, (possibly much higher) taxes then you are paying now.

SD Realtor

[temeculaguy]

Amen to that brother. Another thing about door to door anything, just answer the door naked, they rarely come back and if they do it makes for an interesting conversation.

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