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You’re fired…

I’m not Donald Trump… and you probably aren’t either, but you might share something in common.

Back way before I started in real estate I was in the commercial photography business.   I was a photographer as well as a professional photo assistant.  I loved the work.  I had a pretty good client base for the assistant business, and was reasonably busy.  I also learned a LOT of things.

One of the things I learned that carried me well through that business, as well as during my time with Wolf Camera (I went from clerk to store manager to big mall store manager in about three years).   The little tidbit I learned was this:

I didn’t have to be fired.  They could just not call me back in.

I was a contractor.  I wasn’t an employee as a photographer or assistant.  To get rid of me, there were no forms that needed to be filled out.  There were no burdens of proof.  I didn’t need three warnings.  All my clients had to do was not hire me to work the next day.  They didn’t even need a reason.  At the end of the day, or the end of the shoot… I was not working for them any more, so they could just not hire me for the next job.

I would love to say that I always got the call back… but I didn’t.  Sometimes I was glad…  But, I did have some great people that I worked with, and they called me back time after time.  I added value to their business, and represented them well.

So, what does this have to do with the here and now?

It isn’t quite as easy as it was… but if you hire me to represent you in either the sale or purchase of a house, you can fire me.  I am confident in my abilities, and I don’t have a problem having an “out” in the contract that lets you fire me if I am not doing the job to your satisfaction.  Many agents believe that a six month listing contract or a six month buyer’s agency agreement means that they own the client for that time period.  While I don’t think any go into the deal thinking that they will just blow off their client later, it happens.

It won’t happen with me.  Or, you can fire me.

I don’t think you will…

(Just a note.  This was to be published on 2/11/08, but didn’t post.  I had to repost it and change the date.  Sorry for any confusiuon)

Say it until it is true!!!… NOT.

While researching yesterday’s blog entry, I ran across this little tidbit.  Frankly, it p***es me off.  I am proud to be a member of the NAR.  I think that there is a place for a strong voice both for real estate professionals, and to champion the issues for increasing home ownership for consumers.

But this is downright stupid.  Whistling past the graveyard.  Spinning… without anything to spin.

Just as

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Sometimes doing the right thing hurts.

I started by explaining in Everybody put your heads down on your desk… how we got to this ugly spot in the road where we see the paths of:

  • Government intervention in loans

or

  • A rush of foreclosures

In this installment,

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Everybody put your heads on the desk…

Do you remember those words from grade school?  The big kid from the back of the class shot a spitball at the teacher, and so everyone got the same punishment.  There were 29 kids in the class that didn’t do anything, but they still got the same treatment.  What’s worse is that the kid that caused the trouble didn’t suffer any more than the kids that didn’t.

That was simply because it was

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Is a clear sky blue?

Sitting down this morning getting my Fox News fix, I noticed a release by the NAR that has me re-thinking a position I have taken…

Here is the link to the NAR news release.  To summarize, the position the NAR takes is that housing will

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