I get it, I really do. You don't like/trust/want to be near us Realtors.
Maybe you had a bad experience in the past. Maybe you saw American Beauty and think we're all obsessive compulsive freaks who inwardly chant "I will sell this house today!" as we try to convince you that the swamp in the backyard is really a tropical lagoon. Maybe you just buy into the stereotype and think we're all pushy, crass, shallow, and greedy.
Fine. You're absolutely right. There are definitely agents out there who are guilty of some or all of those things. I run into them every now and then myself. They're the 1% that give the rest of us a bad name.
The rest of us, the other 99% aren't all that bad. Really.
True, we're a little different than your Average Joe. You have to be a little tweaked in the head to voluntarily choose a profession in which you work 60 hours and week and still don't know for sure if you're actually going to get paid.
And we're not generally rocket scientists, although we do come from very diverse educational and career backgrounds. Some of us were software engineers who got canned after the tech boom. Some of us are retired professors. Some of us just wanted to have a flexible schedule to be able to spend more time with our friends and families.
And sure, we're salespeople. But sales is a very small part of what we do. We're also negotiators, communicators, advertising copywriters, marketers, researchers, interior decorators, house cleaners, armchair psychologists, stand-in therapists, punching bags and shoulders to cry on.
It's a tough way to make a living.
And we do it for a few different reasons. The first one, the dirty one, is that when it pays, it pays well. No always, of course. But sometimes. And we live for those sometimes. We wait for months for those times, because that's when we get to pay off bills, buy some new clothes, and go out for a big steak dinner.
But we also do it because we love it. We love the game. We love working the deal until it works. You couldn't do everything we have to do day in and day out if you didn't. Your soul would implode.
And we love helping people. No, really, we do. We honestly want to help you find the house of your dreams. Trust me, there is no better feeling than the feeling I get when a client walks into a house, stops, stares, and makes a strange but wonderful sound somewhere between, "Awww!" and "Ooooh!" It's the "this is my house" sound and it's a beautiful thing.
So give us a chance. The market may seem scary and buying and selling houses is definitely stressful, but those things are part and parcel of the process. We, as Realtors, are here to help you through all of that. But only if you let us.
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