The ones that stay are the ones who are generally best at it in the first place. They are good enough at their jobs to weather the storm.
"The ones that stay are the ones who are generally best at it in the first place. They are good enough at their jobs to weather the storm.
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Yup. Agents who work hard at the job do just fine. It's the wannabes who are going to lose out in this buyer's market.
When my wife and I were looking for a house here in Saint Paul, we saw one driving around that looked interesting. I pulled my cell phone and called the broker who had his name on the sign. Answering machine. I left my number and the address of the house.
He never called back. The house was still for sale a month later. I never did figure that one out.
We ended up buying a house we visited at an open house. The realtor there, a young woman, took us seriously when we said we wanted to make an offer on a house that week. The next day, she took us to a bunch of houses, even though she was the listing agent on the house where the open house was. We liked that first house best, so we bought it, and she was great about the whole process.
She worked her butt off to sell us a house. Several other agents ignored us when we told them we were buying a house that week and would be paying for it with cash from the sale of our house in California. They just couldn't be bothered to show us other houses.
Amazing. They deserve to go out of business.