Comments on: The Future of Real Estate Agents http://www.arcadiahousingblog.com/2008/02/05/the-future-of-real-estate-agents/ Tracking the Arcadia and San Gabriel Valley Housing Market Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:44:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Vic http://www.arcadiahousingblog.com/2008/02/05/the-future-of-real-estate-agents/comment-page-1/#comment-327894 Vic Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:20:29 +0000 http://www.arcadiahousingblog.com/2008/02/05/the-future-of-real-estate-agents/#comment-327894 You are so wrong when it comes to commissions and I take offense. An agent has huge expenses. The broker gets paid (I have to have a broker, its the law), E&O insurance; personal expenses to run your business, the 15% self-employment tax; Realtor Assn and MLS dues; the state and federal income tax, and much more. And its not just looking up a few properties and writing a contract. Please, showing property, many of them, writing a contract that is legally correct, reading and viewing escrow and title docs AND UNDERSTANDING them, solving loan issues or navigating a short-sale or a foreclosure bank. Sales are not easy to conduct today and getting paid can take months of waiting. Before you go and publicly trash an entire group of professionals, I'd do better research on the topic. You have a responsibility to be accurate with your information when you slander people. You are so wrong when it comes to commissions and I take offense. An agent has huge expenses. The broker gets paid (I have to have a broker, its the law), E&O insurance; personal expenses to run your business, the 15% self-employment tax; Realtor Assn and MLS dues; the state and federal income tax, and much more.

And its not just looking up a few properties and writing a contract. Please, showing property, many of them, writing a contract that is legally correct, reading and viewing escrow and title docs AND UNDERSTANDING them, solving loan issues or navigating a short-sale or a foreclosure bank. Sales are not easy to conduct today and getting paid can take months of waiting.

Before you go and publicly trash an entire group of professionals, I’d do better research on the topic. You have a responsibility to be accurate with your information when you slander people.

]]> By: chris http://www.arcadiahousingblog.com/2008/02/05/the-future-of-real-estate-agents/comment-page-1/#comment-46526 chris Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:45:39 +0000 http://www.arcadiahousingblog.com/2008/02/05/the-future-of-real-estate-agents/#comment-46526 Ah yes, another useless article rife with generalizations and a complete absence of useful information by someone who clearly knows very little about the subject matter. This is the reason that it has become nearly impossible to research anything online. Thanks for your emotionally biased opinion which you tried to pass off as factual. Perhaps you might stop wasting your time and ours writing useless articles on the internet and try to find yourself a real job. Leave the writing to people who have at least some concept of research. "but you must question the validity and accuracy of their advice when their income directly depends on you making a transaction" Wow! You mean... just like every other business and profession in existence? Economics 101 my friend. Look into it. Ah yes, another useless article rife with generalizations and a complete absence of useful information by someone who clearly knows very little about the subject matter.

This is the reason that it has become nearly impossible to research anything online.

Thanks for your emotionally biased opinion which you tried to pass off as factual.

Perhaps you might stop wasting your time and ours writing useless articles on the internet and try to find yourself a real job. Leave the writing to people who have at least some concept of research.

“but you must question the validity and accuracy of their advice when their income directly depends on you making a transaction”

Wow! You mean… just like every other business and profession in existence? Economics 101 my friend. Look into it.

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