Sentences with phrase «worse than no agent»

Authors with years of experience tell us that having a bad agent (or the wrong agent for us) can be worse than no agent at all.

I can not tell you an agent who closes one short sale a month is worse than an agent who closes 20 short sales a month, except that the agent who closes a greater number most likely has more experience — experience that could benefit the seller.

Not exact matches

One of the standard criticisms of virtue ethics is that it is weak when dealing with issues in applied ethics, in contrast to deontology or utilitarianism, and this because virtue theorists focus on good or bad agents rather than right or wrong acts.

Still, in light of God's willingness to have faith in his creature by intending these moral powers for man and limiting his own powers for the sake of giving man «space» in which to be more than a «robot» or a «puppet» in a «stage play,» and most especially in light of God's willingness to enter into the worst of man's human - historical condition via the incarnation for the sake of redeeming the «lifeworld» that man, by his powers, has corrupted through sin, the moral agent can ultimately affirm his or her moral nature in confidence that this «image of God» will not only not be lost but will continue to be affirmed and redeemed to the glory of God.

It's actually worse than that because I'd bet we would have gotten compensated at least a fourth if he left as a free agent next year.

That's bad news for teams who can't offer bonuses of more than $ 300,000 at present due to previous overages — like the one that got the Red Sox Moncada, or the Yankees» buying in bulk, and so on — but if he waits until after his 23rd birthday in October to sign, he'll be a standard free agent, as well.

So you get rid of two of your crap players and get one of our best so whats in it for us or are you also giving us that 50 ml on top of them because that would be the only way it could happen.Berbs went because he was a shit and carrick well he was much the same.Difference is now we are closing on you and if we can get a striker in january then we will be even closer so why would our guys want to go there.Also with cry baby rooney getting a massive pay rise how long before berbs, giggs, scholes and the rest are knocking at the door.That was a very bad move by mannure your wage structure is about to explode out the door and how are you going to pay for that.If Bale was to go there i bet he would be looking at least 150k a week which with rooneys wage rise seems fair.Add to that his price tag for buying him and well it looks like it could cost you at lot more than 50 ml.I know if i was his agent i would be saying to mannure if you want himyou have to pay him a wage up there with rooneys.You have shot yourselves in the foot big style with rooney to the point can you now afford to buy any more players?

And because renters find themselves needing to move so regularly — whether the landlord wants an unaffordable new level of rent, or the tenant can't face another year in a badly maintained property — they have to contend with the pain of letting agent fees and trying to get their deposit back more frequently than any person should reasonably be expected to.

They found that two of the groups, which had received the lowest doses of the oral agent, were significantly worse off than the controls, which received no treatment, Franco says.

The fries are worse here than at Chick - fila with three kinds of GMO industrially processed oils including trans - fat filled hydrogenated soybean oil, plus the usual chemical preservatives and anti-foaming agents.

Rather than comply with the drug lords or cooperate with the DEA agents on their trail, Mick teams up with Leroy Brown (Charles S. Dutton), a stationery vendor who's only trying to be as bad as his name implies.

Walter White, «Breaking Bad,» AMC Cause of death: Gunshot Eulogy: On any other show, the death of DEA agent Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) would be a more than generous sacrifice to the gods of TV.

Stowe looks like she has never acted in a film (oh yeah, that's because she's never acted well in a film); Shalhoub is left to play the background friend (a few quips for humor and he'd be this film's Denis Miller of 1997 - 98); Gary Sinise reminds us that he really needs to fire his agent, the only thing worse than an Oscar nominee making a film like Reindeer Games would be an Oscar winner making a film like Snow Dogs.

As the titular bad - ass, a former CIA agent with a reinstated license to kill out to avenge the death of his brother, Michael Jai White combines a deadpan - comic screen presence with enough martial artistry to make a fight scenes work on a more visceral level than pure parody.

Rockwell's «bad» agent is a laughable stereotype, a limousine liberal that's no more complexly conniving than Wile E. Coyote; likewise an odd, one - note villain, studio exec Agnes (Felicity Huffman) advises Howard that he should stop worrying about trying to «pull Lydia out from under her horny dada,» all before shouting to an eavesdropping, elderly hotel guest to «sleep in hell you wrinkly fuck.»

However, with this new bar set higher than any other point in the industry, that distinction between «having an agent» = good quality and «not having an agent» = bad quality is gone.

If a self - published book sells 5,000 copies in its first six months, an agent or publisher is not going to let first rights issues stand in their way (always assuming that the book is well - written [I've known self - pubbed authors who've managed to sell large numbers of really pretty bad books] and the sales suggest a market that could be tapped, rather than one that has been exhausted, as with some niche products).

We just received a check from our publisher which was less than the stamp it cost to mail, and worse, our agent took 15 %.

Worse than this, however, is approaching an agent or publisher with the first chapters of a first draft of a novel.

A bad agent is worse than none.

Someone who has the attention of the reader and a trad publisher of the usual bad kind is only making ten or five percent royalties or less than five percent royalties on «discounted books», and then is paying twenty percent of that to his agent.

Worst of all is the pedal point innuendo that selfless publishers are somehow more benevolent to authors than agents, who are best compensated only when their author is best served.

Unless this person is trained as a developmental editor or is an agent, they more than likely won't know what needs improvement, and more significantly, they won't want to hurt your feelings, so they won't tell you if the writing is bad.

Prohibited acts.A credit services organization, a salesperson, agent, or representative of a credit services organization, or an independent contractor who sells or attempts to sell the services of a credit services organization shall not: (1) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration before completing performance of all services, other than those described in subdivision (2) of this section, which the credit services organization has agreed to perform for the buyer unless the credit services organization has obtained a surety bond or established and maintained a surety account as provided in section 45 - 805; (2) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration for obtaining or attempting to obtain an extension of credit that the credit services organization has agreed to obtain for the buyer before the extension of credit is obtained; (3) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the buyer to a retail seller who will or may extend credit to the buyer if the credit that is or will be extended to the buyer is substantially the same as that available to the general public; (4) Make or use a false or misleading representation in the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization, including (a) guaranteeing to erase bad credit or words to that effect unless the representation clearly discloses that this can be done only if the credit history is inaccurate or obsolete and (b) guaranteeing an extension of credit regardless of the person's previous credit problem or credit history unless the representation clearly discloses the eligibility requirements for obtaining an extension of credit; (5) Engage, directly or indirectly, in a fraudulent or deceptive act, practice, or course of business in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization; (6) Make or advise a buyer to make a statement with respect to a buyer's credit worthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity that is false or misleading or that should be known by the exercise of reasonable care to be false or misleading to a consumer reporting agency or to a person who has extended credit to a buyer or to whom a buyer is applying for an extension of credit; or (7) Advertise or cause to be advertised, in any manner whatsoever, the services of a credit services organization without filing a registration statement with the Secretary of State under section 45 - 806 unless otherwise provided by the Credit Services Organization Act.

I still maintain the average World Financial Group agent is probably worse than the average Investors Group agent or the nice lady who works at your bank.

If it feels daunting, just remember that there are worse things than phone calls with insurance agents — things like crushing debt and an empty savings account.

There's nothing worse than meeting an agent, only to discover the average price of homes in your preferred community is double what you were hoping.

The only thing worse than being scammed out of a large sum of money that you owe a bank eager to collect it is to get a knock on your door one morning and find a number of serious - faced federal agents there to inform you that you'll need to come with them because they think you're guilty of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and god knows what else.

I have learned the short sale responsibilities of the agent and the lender can be confusing, so you may want to educate yourself on who determines what... A short sale is a different experience than any other home sale or purchase, because the lender's decisions and actions are such a determining factor — both good and bad.

Unfortunately, some U.S. consumers still fall prey to agents and brokers touting whole life insurance is a good investment when simple research will explain why whole life insurance is a bad investment for more than 95 % of the population.

Worse, the magnitude of the average DLR rise is 4.25 times greater than CO2 forcing and 10 times greater than aCO2 forcing so there are far greater consistent (no - ve sign) forcings in operation than CO2 / aCO2 e.g. the constant ~ 3 Wm - 2 per decade solar increase which is an ocean heating agent but CO2 is not in the DLR spectral range (4 — 16 + microns): -

When the information / feedback environment is not as conducive to evaluating agent success or failure, and / or when the people paying the bills (or giving status) rewards care about things other than accurate and useful predictions, then «skin in the game» is a bad thing for truth and usefulness, because the incentives may point in other directions.

Not only does Primerica solely provide term life insurance, agents are also trained that anything other than term life insurance is bad.

You might think that's worse than paying an agent directly, but it actually works in your favor.

At worst, you can be declined or rated up much higher than if you provided your agent all of your details.

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My feeling is that when agents get hyper about things and transfer their feelings to the buyers and sellers, they sometimes make the situation much worse than it needs to be.

Our team of 16 agents and six full - time assistants closed more than 700 transactions last year — and even some 450 during the worst of the last downturn — but only because we're fully committed, not just to our clients and our brokerage, but to each other.

In a worst - case scenario, Pasalis says, when the seller's agent is less than honest, «escalation clauses act like a blank cheque that the seller and their agent can fill in as they please.»

There's nothing worse than not being able to look Aunt Edna in the eye next Thanksgiving because you weren't able to make it work with her best friend and real estate agent.

After looking at the home for you, your agent should be able to tell you if it has a bad layout or is more spacious than the Internet listing appears online.

Newsboy — There are some very very good agents that will definitely be able to net consumers more than bad apple agents.

Looks like they were more concerned with keeping as many agents with the REMAX brand as possible so they had to make the situation much worse than it was.

This suggests that an easy way for home purchasers to select a loan officer is to follow the recommendation of their real estate agents, and without doubt you could do worse than following that rule.

But in a worst case scenario, when the seller's agent is less than honest, escalation clauses act like a blank cheque that the seller and their agent can fill in as they please.