Comments on: Real Life Real Estate: Truth Stranger Than Fiction http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260 Phoenix Real Estate -- Anything and everything about it. Plus random musings... Now with Phoenix area MLS Listings Search! Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:34:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: The Butterworth Group » Here we go again – the dreaded “feedback request” http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-20119 The Butterworth Group » Here we go again – the dreaded “feedback request” Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:48:28 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-20119 [...] If you really want feedback, PLEASE just send me an email. Otherwise I’ll start to consider not answering my [...] [...] If you really want feedback, PLEASE just send me an email. Otherwise I’ll start to consider not answering my [...]

]]> By: Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-15177 Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:43:04 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-15177 "How did it end up? Did you email her?" Yes, we emailed, she responded two days later. In the mean time the buyers moved on and bought something else.... “How did it end up? Did you email her?”

Yes, we emailed, she responded two days later. In the mean time the buyers moved on and bought something else….

]]> By: Keith Jeppson http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-15173 Keith Jeppson Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:15:05 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-15173 How in the world can agents like that stay in business? It had to be a discount broker? How did it end up? Did you email her? How can you meet your agency responsibility if you don't respond to the people seeking information on the property you're respresenting? How in the world can agents like that stay in business? It had to be a discount broker?

How did it end up? Did you email her?

How can you meet your agency responsibility if you don’t respond to the people seeking information on the property you’re respresenting?

]]> By: Becky Troutt http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-12007 Becky Troutt Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:08:55 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-12007 We have this same issue with a BROKER of all people here locally. She is well known for not answering her phone. Usually the only way you can reach her is by email. It used to be hell trying to schedule showings for her listings because she would never call you back. She finally got Centralized Showings to handle them. OH...and good luck trying to reach her even by email after hours or on the weekends. Not likely! Even the Title companies know who she is by name and they first thing they say is....."Oh, she never answers the phone or calls back".... I wonder how in the world she has managed to stay in business and how she is able to keep any listings. How can you be an agent and only respond to people via email? Some of these just have their heads up their a$$es. We have this same issue with a BROKER of all people here locally. She is well known for not answering her phone. Usually the only way you can reach her is by email. It used to be hell trying to schedule showings for her listings because she would never call you back. She finally got Centralized Showings to handle them.

OH…and good luck trying to reach her even by email after hours or on the weekends. Not likely!

Even the Title companies know who she is by name and they first thing they say is…..”Oh, she never answers the phone or calls back”….

I wonder how in the world she has managed to stay in business and how she is able to keep any listings.

How can you be an agent and only respond to people via email? Some of these just have their heads up their a$$es.

]]> By: Ron Tarvin http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-11956 Ron Tarvin Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:58:45 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-11956 Wow! That's all I can say! I dealt with an agent last summer who ended up costing her client their $1000 earnest money because she didn't return calls. A call to her broker didn't help matters much but it did get her to return a call a couple of days later. It's one of the chief complaints I hear from people about real estate agents in general...they don't answer the phone or return calls. It would be like a Pizza shop owner not turning the oven on! Wow! That’s all I can say!

I dealt with an agent last summer who ended up costing her client their $1000 earnest money because she didn’t return calls. A call to her broker didn’t help matters much but it did get her to return a call a couple of days later.

It’s one of the chief complaints I hear from people about real estate agents in general…they don’t answer the phone or return calls. It would be like a Pizza shop owner not turning the oven on!

]]> By: Tim Wallace My Arizona Home Team http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-11954 Tim Wallace My Arizona Home Team Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:42:37 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-11954 Jay, the other post was right on the money. Guess we can gripe and get nowhere. But this is like eating an elephant. Not sure how we would go about it...it may just be one of those unfortunate evils of the industry. Jay, the other post was right on the money. Guess we can gripe and get nowhere. But this is like eating an elephant. Not sure how we would go about it…it may just be one of those unfortunate evils of the industry.

]]> By: Roberta Murphy http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-11951 Roberta Murphy Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:09:50 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-11951 Jay & Francy: Perhaps you should email this blog to The Incompetent One (and the broker)--along with a definition of client representation. There is no excuse for such non-responsiveness. The agent should be fired. Jay & Francy: Perhaps you should email this blog to The Incompetent One (and the broker)–along with a definition of client representation.

There is no excuse for such non-responsiveness. The agent should be fired.

]]> By: Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-11948 Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:54:03 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-11948 Chris - sage advice from your first broker! Tim - I agree completely! See this post I made back in September: http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/it-is-past-time-to-raise-the-bar/138 Chris - sage advice from your first broker!

Tim - I agree completely! See this post I made back in September:

http://www.phoenixrealestategu.....he-bar/138

]]> By: Tim Wallace My Arizona Home Team http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-11947 Tim Wallace My Arizona Home Team Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:29:22 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-11947 This is what happens when it only takes 10 days to get a real estate license and begin representing clients in the largest investment most of them will ever make in their lives. Our industry needs better self policing. Our team would like to see new licensees working in a normal practice, i.e. not new home sales, be required to work in some sort of apprenticeship situation under the supervision of agents/brokers who are really going to watch and set a standard of excellence. That'd eliminate some of this stuff. But you have to admit, with (at last count) 95,000 licensees in the state, there's bound to be a high level of incompetence! This is what happens when it only takes 10 days to get a real estate license and begin representing clients in the largest investment most of them will ever make in their lives. Our industry needs better self policing. Our team would like to see new licensees working in a normal practice, i.e. not new home sales, be required to work in some sort of apprenticeship situation under the supervision of agents/brokers who are really going to watch and set a standard of excellence. That’d eliminate some of this stuff. But you have to admit, with (at last count) 95,000 licensees in the state, there’s bound to be a high level of incompetence!

]]> By: Chris Lengquist http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-11940 Chris Lengquist Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:43:53 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/real-life-real-estate-truth-stranger-than-fiction/260#comment-11940 My first day on the job and I sat in rapt attention as my broker was about to disclose to me the secret of real estate. Now this secret had allowed him to make a great living for over 23 years when I met him so I was paying attention as he began his monologue. "Answer you phone and answer your messages." It seems rather simple. But in truth, aside from a little marketing, that's all I've really ever done. My first day on the job and I sat in rapt attention as my broker was about to disclose to me the secret of real estate. Now this secret had allowed him to make a great living for over 23 years when I met him so I was paying attention as he began his monologue.

“Answer you phone and answer your messages.”

It seems rather simple. But in truth, aside from a little marketing, that’s all I’ve really ever done.

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