Comments on: How to Ruin Credibility http://dc-strategic.com/2008/01/29/how-to-ruin-credibility/ Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:16:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Brian Crouch http://dc-strategic.com/2008/01/29/how-to-ruin-credibility/#comment-28454 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:33:09 +0000 http://dc-strategic.com/2008/01/29/how-to-ruin-credibility/#comment-28454 The ads definitely have something of a tin ear to them. But although I am not a real estate investor, wouldn't it be true to say that, as with stocks, when the price is low, that is the time to buy? If anything, when the market is booming, that's the time to wait (at least that's what Warren Buffet did)! So if the NAR is saying, home prices are down, get in now before they go up, that's not exactly bad advice. (Of course, that means if you're selling a property to get into a new one, you aren't getting ahead if your listed home is underpriced. ) The ads definitely have something of a tin ear to them. But although I am not a real estate investor, wouldn’t it be true to say that, as with stocks, when the price is low, that is the time to buy? If anything, when the market is booming, that’s the time to wait (at least that’s what Warren Buffet did)! So if the NAR is saying, home prices are down, get in now before they go up, that’s not exactly bad advice. (Of course, that means if you’re selling a property to get into a new one, you aren’t getting ahead if your listed home is underpriced. )

]]> by: Dominic Canterbury http://dc-strategic.com/2008/01/29/how-to-ruin-credibility/#comment-18982 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:10:16 +0000 http://dc-strategic.com/2008/01/29/how-to-ruin-credibility/#comment-18982 I completely agree with you both. The organizations that claim to be supporting you (NAR, the real estate companies, local offices, marketing companies, etc) seem to do nothing but support themselves at your expense. As a Realtor, if you can't trust NAR, who can you trust? If you ask me, I would say you should distance yourself from them. Go your own way. If it gets bad enough you will have to openly stand in opposition to them in order to protect your own credibility. Hell, I would say to do it now. It would make for damn good marketing. Dominic I completely agree with you both. The organizations that claim to be supporting you (NAR, the real estate companies, local offices, marketing companies, etc) seem to do nothing but support themselves at your expense.

As a Realtor, if you can’t trust NAR, who can you trust? If you ask me, I would say you should distance yourself from them. Go your own way. If it gets bad enough you will have to openly stand in opposition to them in order to protect your own credibility.

Hell, I would say to do it now. It would make for damn good marketing.

Dominic

]]> by: Joy Canova http://dc-strategic.com/2008/01/29/how-to-ruin-credibility/#comment-18969 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:31:17 +0000 http://dc-strategic.com/2008/01/29/how-to-ruin-credibility/#comment-18969 I agree. Now is the time to highlight the code of ethics by which Realtors promise to abide. It may or may not be the right time to buy, and you may count on the ethics of your local Realtor to counsel you in your best interests always. That is how I wish to be seen. I believe turning down business when appropriate can work to my benefit; it speaks lounder than my voice can ever say about my personal integrity. I agree. Now is the time to highlight the code of ethics by which Realtors promise to abide.

It may or may not be the right time to buy, and you may count on the ethics of your local Realtor to counsel you in your best interests always.

That is how I wish to be seen. I believe turning down business when appropriate can work to my benefit; it speaks lounder than my voice can ever say about my personal integrity.

]]> by: Jonathan Martin http://dc-strategic.com/2008/01/29/how-to-ruin-credibility/#comment-18896 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:33:32 +0000 http://dc-strategic.com/2008/01/29/how-to-ruin-credibility/#comment-18896 As if us agents didn\'t have enough bad press to overcome now we have to recover from our own lobbying group. What is an agent to do;) As if us agents didn\’t have enough bad press to overcome now we have to recover from our own lobbying group. What is an agent to do;)

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