Monday, 16th of June 2008 at 06:30:10 PMIt’s in inevitable, anytime I go on vacation, right before there is a flurry of activity. In my case, I’m moving into a new house. I closed a transaction for an out of town buyers. Received an offer on a listing. And started having Internet access issues.
I’m not complaining, all but the Internet issue has been good. Clients are happy all around. I’m getting more space and I’m going into a vacation feeling that I have climbed Mt. Everest. I took the family and some business partners on a week get away to St. George, UT. A quiet little town about 2 hours from Las Vegas. Full of hiking, good food and out-door theater. It’s a time where we evaluate what works well in the business and plan for the future and a time for me to work less in my business and more on it to get direction. My wife and I also take more time for ourselves (more date nights) and spend quality time with our daughter. It’s really amazing how much we accomplish in this one week and we do this twice a year.
So, that’s why you may not see or hear form me over the next couple of days.
I also wanted to share a story about meeting one of my wife’s friends. She and her husband with two young children will be relocating from Las Vegas to Denver this fall for his work. His work provided him with a local agent to work with in Denver and told him to get a offer in the next 3 weeks so they can be on time to get them moved. This is going to be another entry in my bad agent story book. So my wife’s friend did a lot of research on line before the first day of home tours and had 12 homes that she wanted her husband to preview. She shared that list with her husband and the agent. When the agent met with the husband, he provided him with a list of 100 homes and asked him to pick some out of there, now of which were part of the 12 in the wife’s list. So the husband picked a few out of the agents list and the agent proceeded to ask him about his background (including religious questions). Once the agent learned that my wife’s friends were Morman, the agent proceed to show him neighborhoods around the Temple and other area’s known for Mormans. When it came time to look at the homes the husband picked out from the agent’s list, they just drove by, not going into a single house. The agent was steering my wife’s friends into certain neighborhoods and price ranges that they did not ask for. This is an ethical problem, first of all, you have to act in the best interest of your client, which I am not convinced that this agent is doing. And secondly, I’m prevented from helping them since they are in a relationship with an agent and I am prevented from interfering with that relationship.
It’s really bad, had I known about this before meeting this agent or talking to him the first time, then I would be in a position that I could tell them what they could do. They could re-iterate with the agent what their goals are and ask how his actions are helping them to achieve them. If they feel the relationship is not going in a productive manner, they can contact the Human Resources department to report the challenges that they are having and request help or a change in agents. Point is, they are on a tight deadline and they feel that they have no choices and may rent a place instead of buying one. There are always options and they should be reviewed before giving up, and I’m hoping that they seek to get the help that they need before it is too late.
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