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To: Tradelite who wrote (15096)	11/14/2003 5:21:02 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Darfot, apparently the agents you've met were new ones. i don't think so. in places like ski resorts, i have just walked into Agents®' offices. however, since Agents® don't have oodles of advanced degrees and so on to distinguish themselves like Lawyers® and Doctors®, it is not like i can tell by looking at somebody whether they are the REALTOR® equivalent of Chief Justice® or Head Neurosurgeon®. or whateverrr... and in another place, i found an agent out of a guidebook written in Japanese. the book was a few years old but this dude still had a working number. i guess i should call him up and tell him ole Tradelite thinks he should be out of business, LOL. The good agents are busy working with buyers who are ready, willing and able to buy--meaning qualified. what the hell does that mean? i just tell em i am a cash buyer and they start slobbering all over their Tony Robbins tapes. They have a steady clientele of referrals, usually from people or institutional sources. They know something about their buyers and wouldn't spend time with them unless and until they do. you seem to have these monolithic ideas which strike me as rather unrealistic. sure, there are some people like that, but there are others who aren't. the point is, both sets of people know the lockbox combo, and therefore blow to pieces your idealistic, monolithic image of some airtight, ubiquitous vetting process.

To: Tradelite who wrote (15096)	11/14/2003 9:53:15 PM
From: Doughboy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Tradelite, with all due respect, you make everyone hate your profession. It's that kind of arrogance combined with simple stupidity that piss off homebuyers. I wish you could just be honest and acknowledge that realtors control the market with the MLS and the MLS is not designed to assist buyers and sellers--it's to maintain a barrier to entry. Why else would the realtors be advocating shutting off access to internet sites? Realtors do provide a service but they do it at an excessive profit, and everything they do is a strategy to maintain those margins. It's gotten so bad that even the Bush's sleepy antitrust division was even roused to action by the latest attempts of monopolization by the realtors.

To: Tradelite who wrote (15096)	11/15/2003 7:02:22 AM
From: Micawber	Respond to of 306849

Tradelite, you've really got to get out more. Your sepia-toned view of some long-ago Mayberry existence is getting old. Your industry is by and large made up of glorified chauffeurs. Maybe you weren't in this catagory. But I've been in this business for almost 20 years, and your assertion that You also won't get much of an experienced agent's time (where I live)if all you want to do is use the agent for a few house showings. The good agents are busy working with buyers who are ready, willing and able to buy--meaning qualified is simply inconsistent with the facts. In a bubble market like we have now, nearly EVERYBODY is qualified, and these people know it, yet you continue take what is in effect a highly controlled oligopolistic dating service, and try to turn it into rocket science. Rocket scientists whose qualifications include a drivers license and the ability to point out a closet. Puleeeze. Yes, for the poor fools who can't handle a FSBO on their own, you provide a service. These people are either too busy, or naive enough to buy into the rap that you and the NAR try to sell them about how difficult it is to do on your own, and how much expertise you bring to the table. But condescending anecdotes about the band of gypsies coming to a FSBO aint' gonna help your case with people that can fog up a mirror. Keep trying, though.