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Originally Posted by Indydealmaker
I agree also. However, my experience has been that all too often real estate agents are not marketers, nor do they learn as much about their products as do other sales professionals. For example, equipment salesmen can usually even show a prospect how to perform maintenance on their products and demonstrate the specific mechanical advantages over the competition.
In a previous life I was the president of a condo association and had an opportunity to observe that virtually no real estate office in the county bothered to have on hand the condo rules and regulations or up to date association financials in spite of the fact that we made them available upon request.
Not all real estate agents lack professionalism, but all too many are lacking in basic training. Professional real estate agents do far more than driving prospects around and buying lunch.
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So right
In my previous life I was a community banker. The preponderence of our transactions were home loans. My loan officers would bring me stories about real estate salespeople that would curl your hair. They(for the most part) had little or no understanding of the legal implications of the contract that they were drawing. They would make modifications off the top of their --- with out regard to the fact the they had possibly negated the contract. Misrepresentations about condo doc and community assn regs and it goes on. Many of the folks were part timers and floated in and out of the business, and were rushed on the street by their brokers. During my career I met a "few" true professionals , but the operative word is"few"
Faced with this type of incompetence , the last defense for the home buyer was a Reputable Title co. that would usually attempt to fix the mistakes and misstaments of the RE people.
Caveat Emptor
a phrase that so often applies to this forum.
