Are you uneducated?
Able to return phone calls but choose not to?
Professionalism.........not for you?
Greedy and underhanded?
Then YOU might just excel in the Southern California Real Estate market. Okay, so I am being pretty cynical. Not everyone fits that mold. I have done countless transactions where the agent on the other side was diligent, professional and knowledgable. However, it sure seems like those were the agents that were forced out of the market when things fell apart. Right now in Orange County and LA county if you are looking to buy something below 400K you are lucky if you even get a phone call acknowledging your offer. Really people...............someone spends a minimum of one hour putting together an offer complete with all the documenation that is "required" for the offer and.........nothing. No "got it, thanks". "Sorry took another offer"...........nothing. Michael Vick had more respect for his dogs than some of these listing agents offer their fellow Realtor and inturn their buyer.
Given this predicament I am now offering anyone that will listen to me some simple advice to weed out these unprofessional agents: Write down the name of the company that shuns you and make it a note to pass it on to anyone and everyone you know. Facebook, Tweet, Myspace, any means available to you. Make a list......most of them are selling REO's. When the REO's run out and no one wants to do business with them, they will wish they took 5 seconds out of their time to e-mail a denial for every buyer and agent that took the time to write an offer. Am I being a little vindictive.........you better believe I am. Imagine going to the car dealership to buy a new car. You offer the "nice" salesman a price and he goes to check with his boss. You wait hours, he never comes back. The place closes for the night and he still never comes back. Turns out he went home hours ago. Now repeat that process at about 10 dealerships and you are starting to understand how much time and energy buyers are wasting.
Interesting Fact......
All of the scammers in the real estate industry have gone straight from subprime to loan mods. They made the money screwing people into the bad loans and now they are getting paid to try and put them in the loan that most of them qualified for in the first place but required more knowledge to originate and fund.
Able to return phone calls but choose not to?
Professionalism.........not for you?
Greedy and underhanded?
Then YOU might just excel in the Southern California Real Estate market. Okay, so I am being pretty cynical. Not everyone fits that mold. I have done countless transactions where the agent on the other side was diligent, professional and knowledgable. However, it sure seems like those were the agents that were forced out of the market when things fell apart. Right now in Orange County and LA county if you are looking to buy something below 400K you are lucky if you even get a phone call acknowledging your offer. Really people...............someone spends a minimum of one hour putting together an offer complete with all the documenation that is "required" for the offer and.........nothing. No "got it, thanks". "Sorry took another offer"...........nothing. Michael Vick had more respect for his dogs than some of these listing agents offer their fellow Realtor and inturn their buyer.
Given this predicament I am now offering anyone that will listen to me some simple advice to weed out these unprofessional agents: Write down the name of the company that shuns you and make it a note to pass it on to anyone and everyone you know. Facebook, Tweet, Myspace, any means available to you. Make a list......most of them are selling REO's. When the REO's run out and no one wants to do business with them, they will wish they took 5 seconds out of their time to e-mail a denial for every buyer and agent that took the time to write an offer. Am I being a little vindictive.........you better believe I am. Imagine going to the car dealership to buy a new car. You offer the "nice" salesman a price and he goes to check with his boss. You wait hours, he never comes back. The place closes for the night and he still never comes back. Turns out he went home hours ago. Now repeat that process at about 10 dealerships and you are starting to understand how much time and energy buyers are wasting.
Interesting Fact......
All of the scammers in the real estate industry have gone straight from subprime to loan mods. They made the money screwing people into the bad loans and now they are getting paid to try and put them in the loan that most of them qualified for in the first place but required more knowledge to originate and fund.
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