This data will be scraped and traded by
wannabe realtors hiding behind powerful computers and without the knowledge of a tape measure or a high water table.
Perhaps
all wannabe Realtors should be schooled to offload all and every bit of non-sales related questions as posed by consumers to specifically qualified experts.
That is what most
wannabe Realtors are... passengers suddenly thrust into the driver's seat... complete with a wishful - thinking mindset that traffic will be light, except in cases when it flows right into their driveways and parks there, cash in hand.
Taking your numbers as being accurate, there is a never - ending 80 % turnover of
wannabe Realtors on a five - year rotating basis.
I would venture to say that the majority of
wannabe Realtors pursue the vocation because they easily can, and because they have run out of other options, not all, but the majority... like 80 %.
I would submit that far, far too many
wannabe Realtors have one thing, and one thing only on their minds when they apply to real estate school, and that is money (big commission bucks ideally).
It's all about the money for most
wannabe Realtors.
In my opinion, too many aspiring
wannabe Realtors aspire to acquire the aroma of affluence going in to the profession; they believe that becoming a Realtor is their short - cut route to acquiring mega-dollars otherwise unavailable to them under any other vocational circumstances.
On another note, I wonder how many
wannabe Realtors would pay for and take the three courses, then apply for a job with a brokerage if they knew that they would not work for full commissions during their first year in the training saddle, but rather, that they would work for minimum wage on a forty - hour - per - week schedule.
Therein lies the problem with the current bureaucratic cookie - cutter approach to attracting and training
wannabe Realtors.
This article should be made mandatory reading for
wannabe Realtors, in hopes of redefining what a Realtor should stand for in the misinformed and deluded minds of the wannabe quick - buck artists.
The money train never will run out of fuel until someone or some organization derails the monolith and gives cause for new
wannabe Realtors to meet strict entrance guidelines, strict character assessments and strict ongoing field training during the first four years in the business....
Just like the hoards of fledgling
wannabe Realtors... another one bites the dust.
Perhaps
all wannabe Realtors should be schooled to offload all and every bit of non-sales related questions as posed by consumers to specifically qualified experts.
With that thought in mind, this is why I think that it is imperative that ORE / RECO et al administer pre-qualifying psychological exams that will tend to weed out the lazy short - cut artists that Cliff speaks of in order to keep them out of the «
I wannabe a Realtor and get rich fast» system.
There needs to be a high standard of education AND relevant experience that
a wannabe Realtor must meet before being granted the privilege of becoming a professional vested with the weight of transacting the general publics» most important financial transactions of their lives.
Contrast the long - term - thinking wannabe - professional mindset with that of a typical
wannabe Realtor's mindset who sees big bucks (the sky's the limit ORE tells them) within a few months of starting real estate classes.
That was in the early eighties, and I see no change whatsoever in the mindset of the typical
wannabe Realtor today, thus my view that mentorship is a must if there is ever to be a change in the stereotypical real estate salesperson's behaviour.
Not exact matches
As we both know, this cognitive dissonance scenario plays all of the time with big - time commission chasers who tend to try to live up to the standards of what one wants to earn vs what one is currently earning, and therein lies the problem with almost all
wannabes, early know - nothing - careerists, struggling know - a-little-bit mid-term survivors, surviving devolving - from - naïve - honest -
wannabes - to - practicing - the - sales - culture's ways - and - means - influence - peddling scripts / strategies
wannabe - professionals - but - still - amateurs producers to the flat out high - flying Terry Paranych types who practice (pre Hearing decisions) in - your - face unethical behaviours in quest of more and more and more and more commissions before death brings down the final curtain on the greatest act one has ever been privy to partaking in... because for most, being a
Realtor is all about acting.
bureaucrat who yanked my chain is a slick former used Lada car salesman turned failed
wannabe professional (but nevertheless incompetent) out» a-the-gate
Realtor?
This is the beginning of self - justified, self - deluded, unethical and immoral activity on the parts of too many
Realtor wannabe's whose main goals are to «make it financially» vs what should be their main goals, being, to «become professionals of the highest quality».
Here's an idea: Let's make the fear of reprisal so severe that when said penalties for misbehavior are trotted out during the real estate university 101 «pre-course» (a one - day eye - opener reality - check course regarding the
wannabe failure rate)-- starting on day one in class, when the pitfalls of being a
Realtor are revealed vs how much money one can generate (if one is one of the few lucky ones) once in the saddle — the unethical - by - nature future miscreants quickly exit stage left, or right, ask for their money back, and rightfully blank off back to their holes in the ground.
«Hard Working
Realtor: one who hides behind his mother's skirt, sometimes even under it; one without a sense of identity, a faceless, nameless acronym of a hollow shell; not a see shell, but a no - see - um shell; a wing - nut without wings; a
wannabe marine armed with a pea - shooter; a denizen of the deep living in a leaky urine - hued yellow submarine with special krill - proof screen doors; a
wannabe flying fish turned acronymphomaniac.
The problem, as Christopher seemingly alludes to (with whom I agree) is with ORE's bureaucrats and their revolving door undemocratically elected ladder climbing so - called leaders from within the old boy's / old girl's in - house clubs, and not with the hapless
wannabe's who fall for ORE's promotions of wealth and excess... the false life of a
Realtor.
Why else would a
wannabe become a
Realtor?
You sound like Obama, self - proclaimed head of the world order don't» cha know, worried about other countries» interests to the exclusion of his own country's, the next
wannabe United Nations Secretary General, pontificating from Mount Olympus, instead of a
Realtor who knows that he has only one purpose as a
Realtor, and that one purpose is to defend his client's fiduciary interests 100 % of the time, no matter what.
These «
wannabe successful but don't wannawork»
Realtors are matched in the bureaucracy of government by civil servants who are convinced there are folks out in the real world who are having fun and they are going to do something about it.
When I first became a
Realtor waaayy back in 1980, I was a wet - behind - the - ears former tradesman eager - beaver
wannabe hot - shot salesman who bought into every «how - to» book that taught all of the psychological tricks to get to that magical «yes» vis a vis influencing prospects to sign on the proverbial dotted line.
You have lost sight of your mandate; you have become the
wannabe United Nations of:
Realtors, Government agencies and consumers.
More «one - way - street» (my way or the highway) advice designed to appeal to
wannabe control freak artists who don't really have much respect for potential clients» wishes and uneasiness with high pressure
Realtor sales tactics.
I feel bad for
wannabe and current
Realtors who buy into the myth of «Everyone can become a superstar if only you do this, this and that.»
Let the
wannabe leaders battle it out for
Realtors» votes... just like in a democracy.
Then really good
Realtors should do as you suggest; kick their potential greedy, envious, unethical
wannabe clients» asses to the curb... or too known registrants of dubious repute... the money grubbers.
It is all about the money, how
Realtors are paid for their services, and why
wannabes want to get into the commission / gambling business in the first place.
However, as I have pointed out within this publication for years now, professional
Realtors should not be branded as salespeople, because that is what draws the
wannabe sales mentality to this so - called profession, which it has thus never been but which it should be.
The business needs more like you and others who contribute on this site who take the time to pay attention to the details of this business, something that is sorelay lacking across - the - board, thanks to ORE's bureaucrats who collectively keep the income - producing gravy train rolling (for themselves) by playing
wannabe «let's - get - rich - via - being - a-
Realtor» babes - in - the - woods
Realtor wannabes like concert violins.
This piece speaks the truth, and unfortunately says it all about the motivation of your average
Realtor and most
wannabes... getting rich via flogging real estate to as many people as possible within the shortest amount of time.
Say, maybe that could be the Psychiatric Association of
Wannabe Rich
Realtors Dumpster Remains» next TV ad!
Wannabes would therefore value becoming a professional
Realtor from a different perspective because they would then realize that not just anyone could become a
Realtor.
I think this idea should spawn a new growth spurt in
Realtor wannabes.
A much more rigorous selection and education / preparation process being employed at the beginning of the development of legitimately qualified professional
Realtors would cut the numbers of
wannabes significantly, thus forcing brokerages to further develop quality representatives (of those brokerages) vs the current catch - as - catch - can non-methodological practice now in place.
Many (but certainly not all) of the initially hopeful (aka naïve)
wannabe careerists start off as being in it for the public good, but they quickly morph into being in it for the communal «me» as the visions of working for nothing, for months on end, or longer, becomes the reality transforming the disillusioned newbie mindset into the «me - first» failures - in - waiting crowd... and that member ship is always crowded... the stereotypical mercenary commission chasing
Realtors who do everything in their power (which they actually have very little of other than the amateurish use of persuasion techniques) to appeal to potential clients as being anything «but» themselves.
How many
wannabe's would there be if
Realtors across - the - board earned a salary of say... forty - to - fifty thousand dollars per year, do ya think, who in any case would not even be hired in the first place if they could simply fog up a mirror?