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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (6711)	11/13/2002 11:37:25 AM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 306849

Where I live, the sellers expect their properties to be advertised at least weekly--they get bent out of shape when they see their neighbor's home in the Washington Post and theirs is not. The big brokerage firms can afford to do this. The little ones do not and do not imply that they offer this service. Many times, sellers find out after listing that their home isn't selling and isn't being advertised. The little firm gets dumped and a big one steps in to make the seller happy. The so-called discounters offer no agent training, no sales meetings to bring everyone up to date on new stuff they need to know, no duty desk to answer phone inquiries about properties for sale, no marketing budget, zip! Can't remember all the many times some part-timer from a discounter faxed me a contract offer on a listing, and I had to spend time educating the part-timer about the need to supply the missing pages required by law to accompany the contract. Very often, the forms were not available in the broker's office and the agent didn't even know they were required. His offer and his hapless buyer didn't get very far, needless to say. Those commissions pay for much more than some people assume, I guess.