I'm biased. I'll put it out there. I have an opinion, and I'm a Realtor, so I'm biased, but that's ok. I think most people realize that anyway.
When I first started the home buying process (before becoming a Realtor), I had no idea what the process involved, so I asked someone I knew who was a Realtor, who referred me. I didn't know if she was good or not, or even how to tell. In the end, we felt she was pushy and didn't represent our interests well. The following year, we started again, using someone different we knew from our church. He did a good job for us, and we ended up using him for several transactions. However, once again, we didn't even know how to evaluate.
Wouldn't it make sense, though, that if you're making what could be consider the most significant investment of your life, that you'd get the best person available to help you? Similarly, when it comes time to sell your home, shouldn't you use the person whom you can trust to do the best job in selling your home?
I could be wrong, but I don't think people realize there's a difference between Realtors. They figure that everyone is the same. However, as someone on the inside, I can tell you it's far from the truth.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Hi Coop,
I am James Boyer, found you at Trulia, I had commented on the same question you did, where they guy was running down dual agency and REALTORs. Anyway wanted to say Hi, and give you a few helpful hints if you do not mind.
Blogger is ok, but in the long run you would be better off to purchase a domain and have a blog setup on it using wordpress. can be done very inexpensively is you cannot do it on your own. Much better for SEO, Building links to your own website, and depending on the plugins, which I can tell you which ones to get, after a few months of posting to it, you will find that your posts rank first page of google for the topics they are about.
Another hint, visit other peoples blogs, like mine, www.nj-realestate-agent.com or www.bloodhoundblog.com and leave well written comments on articles which are posted there. that will help to build a few links back to you, as well as encourage a few of those people to visit your blog and comment. Blog posts with comments rank better in goggle and longer.
Last hint, try not to comment in Trulia to much, I know it is addictive, and I have commented a few times, but Trulia is your competitor in google, and the more content people like you and I create for them, the higher they will rank and the harder it will be for your website to rank higher then them.
hope you take this comment in the helpful light it was meant.
James Boyer
Hey James - Thanks! I really appreciate it. I'm just starting out at this point, so I'm experimenting on blogger a little bit before going all out.
Post a Comment