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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (3287)	7/10/2002 8:01:09 AM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

LOL!! Elroy, are you aware of how ferociously the Federal Trade Commission has gone after the real estate industry for allegedly NOT being competitive? Honestly, more time is spent on teaching brokers and agents how to stay out of trouble by being competitive than is spent on actually teaching them the "principles of real estate."!! Can't tell you how many boring videotapes I've had to sit through, telling the sad tale of a major famous firm in Texas that got hauled in by the government for anti-trust violations, and how much stupid "role-playing" I've had to endure in training sessions about how to stay out of this trouble. There is nothing deceptive about a listing agreement signed by a seller which states that the listing will go into the MLS within 48 hours, unless the seller dictates in writing that it stay out of the MLS longer or get in sooner. There is nothing wrong or harmful about competition in real estate. Consumers have a choice, always. Noticed all those big and small brokerage offices in your town? Competition must be thriving. Trust me, you wouldn't want it done any other way. If anyone did, it WOULD be done another way.